Meanwhile, a notable change captured their attention: The new Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) built by China runs mainly in parallel with the old one. 0:00 /0:00 The SGR, dubbed the Madaraka Express, was launched on May 31, 2017, a day before Madaraka Day, which commemorates...
So why would a trinity of saints (St. Basil the Great, his younger brother St. Gregory of Nyssa, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus) choose to settle in Cappadocia in the 4th century? Precisely that inhospitable looking rock. Dubbed “living rock,” this special tufa stone is soft and easy ...
According toEphemeral New York, the apartments were initially dubbed a “folly,” but the building’s 16 apartments and four artists’ studios—located near chic Union Square—were quickly snapped up, creating a demand for more apartments. The building remained fully occupied until it was demolishe...
“California Love” is both a definitive West Coast anthem and one of the most important songs in hip hop’s history more generally. The song was released as2Pac‘s comeback single after his release from prison in 1995 and was his first single on Death Row Records. Pac teamed up with Dr...
Simms Campbell, Gardner Rea, Gilbert Bundy, Helen Hokinson, James Joyce, James Thurber, Janet Flanner, Lois Long, Otto Soglow, Rea Irvin, Robert Benchley, Robert Day, Sinclair Lewis, Ulysses, W.E. Woodward1 Comment on A Joycean Odyssey America’s Love Affair New York’s first big ...
Enough so that [Joseph Eoff] expended considerable effort to createthis sewing machine speed controllerfor his nearly century-old Adler sewing machine. The machine was once powered by a foot treadle, which is probably why the project is dubbed “Bigfoot,” but now uses a 230 V universal moto...
“As though it were covered with blood. As it was. So was the bed. The sheets bloodied with stains the size of Brazil.” Dill frantically tried—and failed—to clean it all up before Cleo came home. “Scrubbed and scrubbed. Rinsed and scrubadubdubbed. There he was, the powerful...
It is widely known for its wild nature and Ottoman heritage, but nomads love it best for its delectable cuisine and tourist-free, picturesque towns. One of those, Prizren, looks cropped out of a fairytale book, with its winding alleys and meandering river running through a minaret-do...
…another take on the ways of love, with Barbara Shermund... …the newfangled diagonal bathtub continued to dazzle, with George Price… …Gardner Rea offered up some subtle irony on the farm… …and we close with James Thurber, in a poetic moment… Next Time: A Light in Darkness… Poste...
“My background was furniture design, but my first love was chairs. We take chairs for granted but they hold our emotions and our stories. We sing on them. We throw them. We argue on them. They also define how we sit, although outside the western world people sit in many ways.” ...