Born in South Carolina, she was moved to Rhode Island at an early age. She attended Julliard where her talent was recognized, and she performed off Broadway to critical acclaim. Wikipedia reveals Davis is a second cousin of actor Mike Colter, known for portraying the Marvel Comics character ...
Now big bridges cross the rivers and there is only one little punt left, on the back road to Grafton, moving traffic from one river island to another. I take my Californian family that way whenever I can, so they can experience the slow down, wait your turn silent crossing ( chanting a...
tightly around hers after a magical night of love-making and I was gently nibbling her right ear; I remember it well and I am sure - when she reads this from a heart-breaking 4000 miles away in her seemingly new abode in the Caribbean island of Martinique - she will too (please come...
Since then I’ve gone on to import several Dictionary of Sydney articles to Wikipedia including, in chronological order: Glebe Island; John Mather (artist); Sydney artists’ camps; Hugo Alpen; Florence Violet McKenzie (a “Good Article” about Australia’s first female electrical engineer); AWA...
Ellis Island opened on New Year’s Day 1892. In a month of new beginnings, it’s hard to imagine celebrating anything else, but we do. It’s time to toss out that old fruitcake – well toss it somewhere. January, like any month on the calendar, includes a variety offood holidaysto ...
July 27, 2010 at 9:15 am I was on Jersey for a few days last summer – besides from a few bilingual signs on official buildings (where the texts looked like Standard French), one wouldn’t know that anything but English was spoken natively on the island. Among the non-tourists I met...
I On a side note, I can confirm that, like in the Caribbean, Martian Creole doesn’t make the difference between he and him: it’s allli(i.e. eitherilorluiin the language the pronoun was originally taken from), which can also besheorher, or evenit. But however strange that may ...
Their personal relationship, however, was going strong. In August 1959, Carole and Gerry were married in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island after Carol had become pregnant. He was 20 and she was 17. They both quit college and took daytime jobs; Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King...
In this episode of80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’ll be talking about The Republic of Vanuatu, a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean, around 1,700 kilometres (or 1,000 miles) east of northern Australia and 540 kilometres (340 miles) northeast of New Caledonia. ...