1858-1877: Cooper is in his 70s and 80s, involved in telegraphy and running Cooper Union. At age 69, he puts together a consortium of friends, to finance the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co. The consortium includes Alexander Bell, Cyrus Field and Samuel Morse. Peter Cooper i...
Was Alexander Graham Bell paid for the risk he might not invent the telephone? Nonsense, he was paid for inventing it. Was Edison paid for the risk that he might not invent a light bulb, or for actually inventing it? Henry Ford was not paid for taking the risk that he might not be ...
The problem is that some of those civil servants are in positions “of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character” which might see them oppose the president’s plans and initiatives (think civilian Alexander Vindman types.) They can block action relatively ...
The second was a result of reading through various prepper blogs when we started experiencing supply chain issues, seeing signs going up in the stores about purchase limits, and having some of the weekly staples we purchase either not being available or the prices rise at a historical pace. An...
Also https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiBR6Z16tXxC5mQO3nsSBEg, and https://bigserge.substack.com. As an example of alternate thought, try this:“People, to put it bluntly, don’t know anything about war. They don’t know that ...
Master of ceremonies Barry Forshaw announced me as the the winner and quoted Sue Wilkinson, the chair of the 2021 committee who said: ‘Peter May infuses his books with a real sense of place, whether it be China, France or the Hebrides. His books are tense, atmospheric and complex but ...
atGAFFTAthat reflect open culture,collaboration and code/creativity. Its a nice overvoew of what were up to and features some of the most engaging projects today by artists likeC.E.B Reas,Aaron Koblin,Stamen Design, andGray Area resident artists Gabriel Dunne, Ryan Alexander and Daniel Massey...
Jamie Alexander says: January 29, 2013 at 11:02 am I guess the idea of walking away from everything is just to have a feeling of security. If I had valuables and I needed to ship them to a different country I’m not saying I wouldn’t. It’s just nice to know I wouldn’t ...
Same as the Alexander the Great, same as the British, same as the Soviets. That is one of the wonderful things about the SIGAR report, its historical portability. Change the dates and some adjacent facts and it reads well to describe the British ouster, or the Russian. The failure to ...
Same as the Alexander the Great, same as the British, same as the Soviets. That is one of the wonderful things about the SIGAR report, its historical portability. Change the dates and some adjacent facts and it reads well to describe the British ouster, or the Russian. The failure to ...