Chinese tomb paintings from the Tang dynasty show trees in shallow pots, and we can intuit that the art of bonsai-like plant sculpting is at least that old. Some speculate that its roots in China may go back as far as 206 B.C. and still survive today. From China, bonsai migrated...
Lots of tourists dressed in the Ming/Qing dynasty added to the atmosphere of the many shop alleys. We had a good time strolling the streets admiring the shops and architecture of this old town, especially at night when rows of red lanterns were litted up on the streets. We stayed at ...
093 regular-season games and 40 more in the playoffs while being the first manager to guide five different organizations to the postseason. And still, the glory he tasted just once in his 19 seasons playing, in 1981 on the Los Angeles...
The NFL has had several geniuses when it comes to coaches. Yet when it comes to coordinators many have not received their due nor have any made the Pro Football Hall of Fame based on their contributions. One coach that did receive Hall of Fame consideration was Dick LeBeau (enshrined in 20...
But one school has, for upwards of a half century, quietly been producing some of the most impressive college quarterback seasons: Brigham Young. Between Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer and Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks like Jim McMahon and Steve Young, there are many NCAA record holders and ...
mounting up beyond the ability of many borrowers to pay. This is what led to the royal amargi, andurarum and misharum “Clean Slate” proclamations of Mesopotamia during 2400-1700 BC, cancelling agrarian debts (but not commercial obligations, that is, the placement of money with tamkaru-merc...
Anna writes: “I have not often in my life met with contented and cheerful-minded women, but I never met with so many repining and discontented woman as in Canada.”[ii] To the alarmed male critics of Anna’s feminist views, one woman riposted wittily “well they may be, for when ...
Yesterday, Facebook was down for a couple of hours. It got people thinking...what if it went away forever? What would happen to all of the photos I have saved there? How many of you have been saving all of your photos on Facebook as if it was your own personal scrapbook? First of...
In a decade that featured many hugely hyped toys, arguably none was bigger than Cabbage Patch Kids. The adorable dolls, with soft cloth bodies but hard plastic heads, came with names and adoption papers so that little ones could feel like they were real parents to the toy. Introduced on th...
odds, new frontman Ronnie James Dio had many fans asking “Ozzy who?” (for a short while, at least), while Tony Iommi’s power chords and Geezer Butler’s bass thunder answered heavy metal’s call with the utmost authority. Black Sabbath was reborn like a glorious phoenix of doom. ...