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I met Darrel Christopherson 20 Plus years ago. His son Rick had called the radio station and set me up to participate in a celebrity pheasant hunt near Yankton, South Dakota. We exchanged pleasantries at the hunt. But Darrel was different. He asked for my phone number, which I gave him ...
It was after the founding of the People's Republic of China that the country developed its own style of democracy. The first NPC was convened in 1954, marking the establishment of the people's congress system, the platform for democracy where the people exercise state power. This is a poli...
I pose the question to my friend Jorge: he was born in Barcelona and spent 20 years in London, returning home only when he found a penthouse flat from which he could see the cathedral being built. To my surprise, Jorge says that this isn’t the case at all: “There’s time for ev...
One of America's first tunnels was the Paw Paw Tunnel, built in West Virginia between 1836 and 1850 as part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Although the canal no longer runs through the Paw Paw, at 3,118 feet long it is still one of the longest canal tunnels in the United States....
Like Robinson, Clifton was 28 by the time he got his chance in his sport’s major league. The 6-foot-7 forward became popular with the fans, in part because of his catchy nickname (he loved soft drinks as a child). His best season statistically was 1954-55, when he averaged 13.1 p...
I was very lucky. Prof van Tamelen gave us all a lot of freedom--he didn’t lay down explicit directions about what to do in the lab. This helped me develop independence and confidence and maturity. When I was...
The Western part was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939, when Stalin and Hitler divided up the spoils. Crimea, 60 percent of whose population is Russian, became part of Ukraine only in 1954 , when Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by birth, awarded it as part of the 300th-year ...
It wasn’t until 1954 that the first practical “solar cell” was created by scientists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Their silicon-based device arrived less than a decade after researchers at Bell invented the transistor, which is now a key component of electronic devices....
There’s a briny smell of kelp in the air—I’m imagining the sweat and toil of halcyon days when Bahia Bustamante was the world’s largest seaweed harvesting operation. In 1954, one Lorenzo Soriano created a seaweed empire on the fringe of the remote Patagonian steppe on Argentina’s Atlan...