It was hailed as a Sistine Chapel for food, a symbol of urban renaissance, a cool place to go. With the roughly 4 million visitors that came from outside of Rotterdam, the city saw its tourism grow. How did that happen? It would be an easy assumption to think that a great bui...
all belong to the faraway and mysterious Anglophonic sphere, and most people seemingly are not able to distinguish them properly in terms of culture and origin, since in the news they are constantly generalized
Cunard and White Star Lines merged in 1934 and currently operate under the Cunard name, sailing cruise ships you've probably heard of, like the Titanic and the Queen Elizabeth 2, or the QE2, and popularizing the idea of luxury travel by sea. Unlike the more common cruise ships that ...
As the steam engine evolved, so did its uses, until in 1819 the first American ship aided by a steam engine crossed the Atlantic. The S.S. Savannah left from the U.S. city bearing its name on May 22, 1819, and arrived in Liverpool, England, 29 days later. While the Savannah only...
But the sort of thing NYRB does is a kind of publishing, of older books in new, more portable guises (old wine in new bottles, not what Jesus ordered), that goes back to the Italian Renaissance printer Aldus Manutius and the Temple and Oxford Classics, the Modern Library and Anchor Book...
2. HOW did the HePtarChy Come into being during the AngIo-SaXon times? Key: The three GermaniC tribes Came to EngIand in the middle Of the 5th century. They Combined all the qualities that Were necessary to develop and defend an independent island. Befbre Iong the distinction between these...
–During the Italian Renaissance, womendrankbelladonna berries (which are toxic, by the way) to dilate their pupils and make them look more attractive. –Nowadays, some tests show that expert card players win fewer games when opponents wear dark glasses. Rapid pupil dilation would indicate to th...
The reality is that you will never run out of stations, nor will you run out of Memory Palaces. This will happen because you will learn a few different ways to reuse them. You will also learn a number of ways to maximize the space within them as you practice. ...
Food festivalsare so much fun. We stumbled on asagra (food festival) near Lake Comoand had a great time tasting all the local dishes. On another trip we managed to be in Florence during the finale of theGelato Festival(how did that happen I wonder?) and were able to taste some incredi...
How did you start that track? I took the string instrument from another song, it was either "Can't Dance" or "Fight" and I used that to start it. I did that in a few songs, where I took something from one song and used it to start the next song to kick it off and also to...