It is time to review these practices as a whole and understand their great importance: not only because the history of those years is still to be written, but because a good number of young artists are directly or indirectly influenced by them. It also facilitates a rethinking of the institu...
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Uncle Simon’s robot evolved to become all that he was: believing what he did, behaving like he did, and reasoning like he did. As “The Twilight Zone” viewers discovered, confronting a human being in the form of an unbiased computer is both amazing and terrifying to behold. Intelligent ...
This is the time of year (mid-May to mid-June) when our Horseshoe Crabs come into the shallows to mate, sometimes ending up dead on the beach in the process. The WaPodid a piece on the spectaclea few years ago. These critters, or ones similar, have been around for 1/2 billion ye...
We asked Jermaine Dupri, along with Michael Barney and his DJs and his dancers—oh, and of course Big Boi—what made Magic City so, well, magical.
Hear more gothic fiction from Ambrose Bierce and more at TheHalloweenHaunt.com. Read along at Legends of America. Music: “Remains from the Past” by Grigor Iliev (from Soundclick.com) “The Dance of Halloween” by Sam Haynes from “Something Wicked–Halloween and Horror Music for Halloween ...
History of the M&M: How each amazing color came to be Even the colors themselves have a fascinating backstory. Gallery Credit: Mike Brant 1941 Mike Brant - TSM 1941 The first M&M's were introduced in 1941 and produced in Newark, NJ, where the colorful little candies continue to be made...
this festival was aimed at the cleansing of both sheep and shepherd in honour of the Roman deity Pales. Of uncertain gender, Pales was the patron of shepherds and sheep. The festival was first celebrated by the earliest kings of Rome but later on by the pontifex maximus (the chief priest)...
DAVE GAHAN BIOGRAPHY David Gahan (born David Callcott; 9 May 1962, Epping, Epping Forest, Essex, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer of the electronic band Depeche Mode since their debut in 1980. He is also an accomplished solo ar...
Bears are sometimes called the "clowns of the woods" because they dance, sit on their haunches, and roll head over hind paws. In medieval stories, Bruin the bear was a popular character. In Russia, the bear of folklore evolved into a caricature named "Mishka." The rest of the world ...