Picking trump was like hiring a loud mouth braggart quarterback who trash talked the opposition, but when it comes time to play the game, he frequently throws the ball towards our own end zone, frequently runs the ball himself, often fumbling the ball in the process, all the time blaming ...
Episode 7: The Performer(2009.11.11) • In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural,There is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, A pariah even among demons. ——Montague Summers 【Montague Summers(作家):在所有描述邪恶鬼怪的黑暗文字里,没有比描述吸血鬼传统更可怕的了,...
Over in America, it wasn’t until 1790 that an ice cream parlor opened in New York. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were known to have an affinity for this creamy icy treat. Ice cream’s reign as an indelible taste of summer is in the hearts of people around the...
from people whose credibility cannot be doubted – not that I have the least suspicion they made them up. I have had the same in my experience, so there is nothing I can do, but trust people like Abraham Lincoln, Nils Bohr, Einstein, Kekule or Mendeleev – among countless other equally ...
Carl Sandburg’s huge biographical tome on Abraham Lincoln by my father’s chair; how he followed this fellow Kentuckian’s life and political strategy for its honor, efficacy, leadership. Now, watching the end of his hero’s life, my father can hardly breathe, he is almost choking on te...
Private investigator Grayson Sykes is hired for her first big case at Rader Consulting—to find Isabel Lincoln, the missing wife of Dr. Ian O’Donnell. But Isabel seems to have left virtually no trace, so part of the mystery is whether her absence is intentional. While this is a cleverly...
Among the unconventional types of golf is an entry-level version in which the holes are 15 inches wide, about four times the width of a standard one. A 15-inch-hole event was held here at the Reynolds Plantation resort on Monday. It featured the top professional golfers Sergio Garcia and...
Behind the story: A place to share all things medieval and any other delicacies that capture our heart
For Creighton out loud.(Private Demons: The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald )(Book review)