And one of the first markets was children’s books – often given the increasing interest in folklore in England at the time, the books were either fairy stories or tales set around the Lancelot and Guinevere theme, or sometimes loosely based retellings of the Greek myths. One of the princi...
The architect George Gilbert Scott initially lobbied for a gothic theme until the PM at the time, Viscount Palmerston, insisted on a more harmonious design and then opted for the Italianate approach. Over the years, owing to the ever-increasing numbers in personnel, much of the building’s f...
not snide or snotty; it seemed to me to be utterly genuine not in its acceptance but in its hopelessness in the face of a culture fixated only on the commodity, on increasing consumption, on passive entertainment, the sound of no future in a minor key wheezed out by a singer who would...
I not only educated students of numerous “races” and nationalities, I also served as the International Student Advisor, increasing my interaction with them. The school has been historically strong with Latino/a students since its founding in 1926. When I taught there (1992-2015), the number...
“increasing exponentially” – but being alarmist on this subject is the job of Chicken Little). The Harvard School of Public Health declares: “Today, nationwide, roughly two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese (69 percent) and one out of three is obese (36 percent).” ...
Drowning in an ever increasing sea of pretty poor apps This is NOT a step forward for us as a species. This explosion of apps just to park a car is not in any way improving my life, it is making it more complex and more bloody frustrating. I suspect it is making life a lot, lot...
MG: I’ve never heard of a ‘citation circle’ and it’s not something I personally engage in or have ever engaged in. I’ve publicly outlined my strategies for increasing citations (attached) [I attached the following article to my email: Griffiths, M.D. (2015). How to improve your...
that lack of knowedge may have been the answer. In the past year or two increasing numbers of small Gibeon Meteorites have been exported. It may be that with modern metal detection equipment meteorite hunters will locate a substantial number of smaller specimens....
I would like to take the word should and remove it from the vocabulary forever. I’d replace it with the word could. Could gives us choice, and we are never wrong.” I quite agree. What I’m realizing is there are no “mistakes,” only choices. There is no right or wrong, there...
And, lest we forget, the City’s shrinking value of taxable property means that commercial property owners and homeowners who already took a beating in last year’s revaluation will feel increasing heat and pressure applied by city government anxious to squeeze as much revenue out of what still...