First, the anguished wailing of mothers - breaking the silence to cry out in unspeakable grief. The other - every 90 seconds - was the sound of artillery fire going into Gaza. These are two sounds which have become inextricably linked over this year. As mothers cry in Isr...
Absence of records records never created in the first place has received less attention. My focus in this article is on lives lived without records, in silence. Analysing silence is not easy. Where does one look for evidence? A novel by the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus offers, I ...
The polio vaccine has saved millions oflives. 脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命. 《简明英汉词典》 He thatliveswith wolves will learn to howl. 同恶人生活在一起将学会恶行. 《简明英汉词典》 Helivesin Beijing or thereabout ( s ).
Her earliest biography was written a hundred years after her death by Cogitos, one of the monks of Kildare, the double monastery where Brigid was Abbess of both men and women in fifth century Ireland. Brigid of Ireland Ireland is a land of story. The stories woven through and around Brigid...
Tens of millions of images collected since 1888 reflect the practices and prejudices of a changing world.
Just after the First World War, improvements to the nation’s roads, combined with the popularity of Henry Ford’s Model T automobiles, meant that more Americans were able to travel and willing to drive to sporting events, such a college football games. By the 1920s, attendance at games in...
James spoke of being an American pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Japanese during World War II. The child provided strikingly specific details, including the name of an aircraft carrier, the first and last name of a fellow crew member, and precise informat...
The first steamboat to sail the Detroit River, and the Great Lakes in general, was theWalk-in-the-Water,named after a well-known Wyandot chief.TheWalk-in-the-Waterwas built in a ship shipyard at Black Rock, a small village near Buffalo. On August 23, 1818, the ship made its first ...
Ward delivers on his ambitions. Filled with insight and more than a little excitement and intrigue, Lovers of Philosophy is enjoyably readable. With dramatic flair, Ward recounts the excitement of the first meetings between the philosophers and their future lovers. He describes the consummation and...
In the late 1940s, Robin Seymour joined WKMH and became a significant figure in its programming. By 1955, he was known for his engaging style and for being one of the first DJs to ask listeners for their opinions on new records. And he became one of the first disk jockeys in the Mot...