The temperature had dipped this low once before in the UK - in Braemar, East Scotland on January 10, 19821947 Last king of Romania steps down Michael I was forced to abdicate by the Communist Party of Romania. His first reign over the country was in 1927 as a 6-year old, and it ...
day. He rendered his vision of them with thick layers of paint, brushstrokes, and colors. MacCallum, too, has chosen a fixed-viewpoint: in her case, of Lake Ontario. She, too, follows different hours and, also, different seasons as Monet did with his haystacks. She, however, renders ...
Would you be surprised to find a New Year’s Day in March? Indonesians on the island of Bali are getting ready to ring in Nyepi, their New Year. It falls in March or April on the night of the new moon and is a symbol of a fresh start for the people and the island of Bali. ...
Formalising the collaboration which public libraries have done for decades with ease has added value in today’s budget-stretched times. Building on existing national service models Enquire (a public library collaborative virtual reference service) widens the knowledge and expertise available to the cust...
An editorial on similar lines in Nature noted: “It may be long in this slow-moving country before the influence of Brain-power on history is recognised as fully as the influence of Sea-power ... but undoubtedly it will be bad for our future if much more time is lost.”...
The idea of Streets in the Sky has been a controversial one in the history of housing in the UK. How does your interpretation differ? "The first architects that were fascinated with this idea of the Street in the Sky were the Smithsons, and the reason why it failed was because they ...
EXPECT GREAT THINGS!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women by Vanda Krefft (History) It’s a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series “Mad Men” would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. In its heyday in the...
In doing this, we study how Ukrainian citizens (and non-citizens living there) respond to their country being aggressively attacked and invaded by its direct neighbour they share a long history and language with, and how the use of language evolved before and during this war. Our study allows...
Opera GX announces “Fake My History,” a new feature that, upon a users’ untimely demise, will replace their questionable history with wholesome queries and exploits. Categories: Desktop Opera GX Tags: news Opera Opera GX Opera GX becomes the first browser to allow users to set a game as...
Arguably the most well-known of these films is this 1989 action/horror that features an admirably ludicrous plot blending the history of the legendary Indonesian spirit The Queen of the Southern Sea with a series of loosely connected action scenes featuring a possessed anthropology student on a mu...