Student Focus Login Contact Us Follow Us A Message from our Principal, Stephen Brooks Welcome to George Stone Technical College! For over 55 years, George Stone Technical College has been preparing individuals for rewarding careers and providing local businesses with a highly skilled workforce. With ...
Hot Jazz in Stone and Steel With the Chrysler Building nearing completion and the Empire State Building beginning to rise from the old Waldorf-Astoria site, the New York City skyline was taking on the iconic form most of us now associate with the city. April 12, 1930 cover byTheodore Haupt...
The development of other technical schools in the post-Civil War period allowed West Point to broaden its curriculum beyond a strict civil engineering focus. Following the creation of Army post-graduate command and staff schools, the Military Academy came to be viewed as the first step in a con...
The Casino itself wasn’t new–it opened in 1864 as the Ladies’ Refreshment Salon (sometimes spelled “saloon”), a two-room stone cottage designed by Calvert Vaux. As Susannah Broyles writes in her excellent blog post for the Museum of the City of New York, the Victorian cottage was ...
much more than Cape Cod beach sand would. There had been a house; all that was left was its foundation. That appeared to have been stone blocks, suspending the house two feet above the ground. A set of brick stairs rose at one side, leading to nothing. Indeed, the bricks looked to ...
they give free derived attention. Many boys and girls have worked through their courses in science or in modern languages because they believed that these subjects would prove valuable not only in preparing them for college, but in giving them a wider outlook on life. Their attention was of th...
Those most exposed to competition from new arrivals have long been a focus for Dr. Borjas. “Immigration is not like manna from heaven,” he said. “It can be great on average, but it doesn’t mean that every single person benefits.” *** Read the entire article at the link. First,...
and by contrast his eyes look abnormally large. This allows one to notice, what one might not at another time, that a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature. It is like gold, or more exactly it is like the golden-coloured semi-precious stone which one sometimes se...
“When I started, business aviation was a stepping stone to get to the airlines, if you’re a pilot or an engineer, you would use business aviation to move up to the commercial companies. But that has changed. Business aviation is a bigger, more established sector, the pay is...
Moravagine is a stone_crazy conman, aided in his escape fmm a sanitarium by a sober uptight doctor whom he *'COT- rupts" during the course of ntunemus adventures in various comers of a world gone mad. In The Crazy House, Ned Flask, a timid ex-journalist, be- comes involved, ...