” adding: “George Burns’ sense of timing and captivating smile touched the hearts and funny bones of more than three generations. He enabled us to see humor in the toughest of times and laugh together as a nation.”
once the consecutive nine-bar sequence is complete, we’re already at the next bar—the tenth. To determine whether the high of the ninth bar exceeds the lows from earlier bars, I compare thehigh of bar 9(denoted ashigh[1]) with the lowest low from three bars earlier (low[4...
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the end. First you go ...
The epiphyseal plates, otherwise known as “growth plates” (located on the ends of bones), are responsible for a child’s bone growth. These cartilage plates continuously divide and regenerate throughout a child’s development in order to form new bone. When the child reaches full adult heigh...
Tom Vesey
Till the match burns my fingers A sucker of thumbs ©Geo. Lewis Avery † [yours for aloe] Brother Troll On Politics In a time past, as the council of elders sat around the ceremonial fire; passing the pipe of knowledge from one palsied hand to the next; they dipped their feathered ...
“Controlled torture”, the phrase burns in my mouth, has always been the consequence of the unbridgeable space between human minds. Torture attempts to break through the wall of privacy we possess as individuals through physical and mental coercion. Big Data, whether of the commercial or security...
We had ne'er been broken-hearted." — Burns TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD HOLLAND, THIS TALE IS INSCRIBED, WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF REGARD AND RESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ___ CANTO THE FIRST. I. Know ye the land where cypress and...
1. While Rome Burns, Alexander Woollcott 2. Life Begins at Forty, Walter B. Pitkin 3. Nijinsky, Romola Nijinsky 4. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink 5. The Native's Return, Louis Adamic 6. Stars Fell on Alabama, Carl Carmer 7. Brazilian Adventure, Peter ...
Close by, there also stood a statue of be-knickered plough-boy poet Bobby Burns in a tam-o’-shanter, holding a mountain daisy like a potato chip. I didn’t realize then that public art with few exceptions is doomed to fail because art and consensus mix as poorly as the well-...