Let’s face it, this is a terrible movie. But the infamous “food scene” — in which Mickey Rourke makes Kim Basinger close her eyes and makes her taste various suggestive foodstuffs, strawberries, honey, etc. — is really kind of unforgettable. And totally devoid of nudity or anything ex...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
In the spring of 1918, a year after the United States entered World War I, the Manhattan District Attorney initiated a special effort to arrest fortune tellers who charged their clients a fee to contact their soldier sons to check on their well-being or guarantee a safe return. Government of...
Vol 4. No 3. 1969.Urbanism.The City in History. Historical Contours of Contemporary Urban Society – a comparative view; Rome in the Past Hundred Years: Urban expansion without industrialisation; influences of the development of Town Planning Britain; The Process of Urbanization in Germany; West ...
Fancourt began a study in mid-March that grew to include more than 85,000 U.K. residents. It is tracking depression, anxiety, stress and loneliness week by week. "We need to know in real time what's happening," Fancourt says. Six weeks in, they found that levels of depression we...
(Something similar seems to be happening with ‘Old Gold’, whose petals are sometimes notched and sometimes not.) The change must have occurred sometime after 1956 because the de Jager catalog that year describes ‘White Aster’ as having “lovely laciniated flowers.” Although nowadays “...
She often faced discrimination and violence, compelling her to begin her transgender and gay rights activism. “We were sick and tired of being put down,” Rivera wrote in The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America Since Stonewall.“Things just started happening.”...
In book 3, for example, Mycroft has access to a lot of what is happening but there is just no one in the upper ranks of the Mitsubishi who would trust him enough to give access, so it was very difficult figuring out how to give the reader access to what the Mitsubishi are doing ...
“…the most important and exciting conference I have ever attended”. Also on hand, Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou, Billie Jean King and of course the glorious Gloria Steinem, to name a few. The thirty-fifth Anniversary of this historic event is being celebrated in Manhattan, Monday, ...
Idoplan on keeping the BTG Facebook going so please check it out (here’s the link) to keep up on what’s happening in the cemetery world. The fans are pretty active over there; feel free to swing by for a visit. Thank you so much for joining me again on this journey. It’s be...