4th Circle: The Hunchback of Cheap Champagne You have lost the will to live. Your head is throbbing. You can’t speak too quickly or you’ll punctuate your sentences with vomit. Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and reeking of booze. The clothes you put on won’t win...
Hotel 48Lex New Yorkoffers nine types of rooms. All have a jazzy Manhattan palette of gray, black, and white, with original artworks in the room. • The two 23rd-floor Penthouse Suites are around 750 square feet, with kitchens and plant-filled terraces framing iconic Manhattan views ...
The Keirby Hotel was built at a cost of £250,000 and opened in 1960. The hotel was built on the site of an old Brewery of the same name on Church Street. It was intended to be the jewel in Burnley’s crown, the only 4* hotel in Lancashire outside of Manchester and Blackpool....
“Inferno,” the first part of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” is a masterful exploration of sin, punishment, and redemption. Written in the early 14th century, the poem takes the reader on a journey through the nine circles of Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. Dante’s vivid ...
On February 15, 1999, Coleman was shot nine times and killed by an unknown assailant in his hometown of Harlem. Noted for his use of wordplay, multiple writers at AllMusic, HipHopDX and The Source have praised Coleman for his lyrical ability, and he has also been described as "one ...
of thefilms nominated for Best PictureI’ve seen two and plan to see at least two more, if not three. That will put me seeing five of the nine nominees, which is an all-time record, so I decided that, leading up to the Oscars, I’d post about each one I see and why I think...
. Other poets have sought to "fill in the blanks" because of the known fragments of her work, twenty contain just one readable word, thirteen have only two, and fifty-nine have ten or fewer. Because there is no single agreed-upon numbering system for Sappho's fragments, different poems ...
Muromachi tale. “A Long Tale for an Autumn Night.” Tale dating “to at least as early as 1377, in which a monk experiences a religious awakening because of the suicide of an acolyte with home he was in love.” (Childs, Rethinking Sorrow, 26-27). Text: NKBT 38. ...
nine days. Though the album topped the charts and spawned the successful singles “The Bitch is Back” and “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” it is often regarded as one of the his weakest efforts of his golden period. At one point, the title of the release was to be ‘Ol’...
In 1912, medical missionary Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister to tribal people in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After 17 years he returned to the U.S. a discouraged man – believing he failed to make an impact for Christ. He died nine years after...