Chan's flat, it was dark and quiet. All of a sudden, the door closed and the lights went on. The police were waiting inside. Amy and her mother came out of the bedroom with the teapot.“That teapot is very valuable,” said Mr. Chan. “A long time ago it belonged to ...
Palliser’s natural intelligence, social skills and outdoor accomplishments revealed his true talents; writes Spry, ‘as much at home in Rome or Heidelberg as he was in Dublin or London, on a Scottish grouse moor or in the Swiss Alps as he was in the wild, beautiful Comeragh Mountains of...
Gabriella Vargas(showing family tree to Van Sant): One side of the tree … the ancestor was 1823. On the other side, the top ancestor was 1797. … Essentially what we're looking for amongst these matches are where they connect to each other. … And it led ...
Gabriella Vargas(showing family tree to Van Sant): One side of the tree … the ancestor was 1823. On the other side, the top ancestor was 1797. … Essentially what we're looking for amongst these matches are where they connect to each other. … And it led me to a union...
How long was the career of Schubert? During a career lastingless than 20 years, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) produced a torrent of work, including operas and symphonies; 600 songs; overtures and masses; string quartets, quintets and an octet; 20 piano sonatas; and some 50 choral works. Here...
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." 😁🙂 (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1775-1817) ...
Painter:The name Sojourner Truth came to her from the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost in 1843. “Sojourner” is someone who is not here for long, that is an itinerant, and she condemned a settled ministry. This was a view of many New York ...
A number of years ago I sat down on a stone bench outside the Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Mozambique, where I worked as an artistic consultant. It was a hot day, and we were taking a break, hoping that a cool gentle wind would move past. Two old African men were sitting on that ...
After years of strangling the industry with regulation, Congress took the action partly because deregulation was popular, but also because Conrail had by thistimealready gone through approximately $3 billion in federal assistance, with no end in sight. Giving Conrail-and the rest of the nation'...
“A silly kind of resolution of the committee on that business had been laid on the table some days ago. The amount of it was that each House should communicate to the other what and how they chose; it concluded, however, something in this way: That everything should be done with all...