You might not immediately recognize astantibus as being from asto or adsto, which that ascendant lexicon of Latin lemmata, the Lewis & Short Dictionary, says means, “to stand at or near a person or thing, to stand by” The L&S will also inform you that asto has the synonym adsisto...
Google and the World Brain/ Spain, United Kingdom (Director: Ben Lewis) — In the most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet, Google has been scanning the world's books for 10 years. They said the intention was to build a giant digital library, but that involved scanning ...
He’d been at the New York Public Library, where he had found a note published in an 1887 issue of Nature magazine—“To Find the Day of the Week for Any Given Date,” sent in by Lewis Carroll, who wrote: “Having hit upon the following method of mentally computing the day of the...
” directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. In describing the score, IFMCA member Jon Broxton wrote that it was a “quite masterful score from Greenwood, one which gets deeply under the skin of the damaged...
1 《贝奥武甫》(The story of Beowulf)代表着古英语的最高成就,是英国文学中现存的最古老的头韵史诗(alliterative epic),是一首异教诗(pagan poem),展现了部落社会(tribal society)的景象 2 卡德蒙(Caedmon)卡德蒙是英国最早的诗人,《卡德蒙的赞美诗》(Caedmon's Hymn)是赞美上帝的诗。
Kana Inagaki and Leo Lewis – Financial Times Sony said it would consider spinning off and relisting shares of its financial services arm to bolster investments in its entertainment business, delighting investors with a U-turn in strategy. Shares in the Japanese group rose 6.4 per cent on Thursd...
The SBF trial is a reminder that crypto is a rotten business; Financial nihilism has produced this game of Monopoly money Jemima Kelly – Financial Times If you haven’t heard that financial storyteller extraordinaire Michael Lewis has a new book out, on the rise and fall of crypto exchange ...
Because if The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is teaching us anything, it's that keeping a good chess piece on the table can come in handy. It's why we're seeing this fun fleshing out of Zemo. It's why Loki has been such a consistent fan favorite, and why Thanos fe...
the fantasy series, adapted from Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, did big business for Netflix – even spawning a video game spin-off – season two struggled to break through in a major way, which is believed to have led to the service’s decision considering the show’s large budget...