Regarding the current conversation around presidents and age, she thinks people are looking at it in a myopic way, noting that her book examines three different kinds of aging—physical, psychological, and, of course, chronological. “That’s what people seem really zeroed in on right now,” ...
Dozens of survivors once joined the event but their attendance has declined as survivors have aged. Today there are only 16 still living, according to a list maintained by Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. ...
In many parts of the world, people live to healthy old ages. What is the secret of their long lives? Three things are very important: fresh air, fresh food and a simple way of life. People living in Himalayas (喜马拉雅山) are famous for their long and healthy lives. They work near ...
This is the story of Hà, a 9-year-old girl living in Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war. Hà, her mother and three brothers escape the city on a ship as it falls to the communists. Rescued by the American navy, they eventually find their way to Alabama through the help of a ...
their sojourn from Australia and the trials that beset this immigrant family in the US. Rich in pathos with heart-rending episodes, the story, in my estimate, did not fail in drawing sympathy for a family suddenly thrashed from comfortable living to destitution. The message of the narrative ev...
who are usually thought to have been Germans. TheGoths,Gepidae, andVandalswere on the southern Baltic coast. Tacitus mentions the Suiones and the Sitones as living in Sweden. He also speaks of several other peoples of less historical importance, but he knows nothing of theSaxons, theBurgundi...