The business survives the war between North and South. As it ends, Mayer proposes to the governor of Alabama that Lehman Brothers become a bank to help rebuild the state and revive the economy. And thus the brothers who are brokers in cotton become brokers in money. And the rest, as they...
My long-held ideas and questions on what a true Customer Centric company would look like begins with an admonition:stop making it so hard on your customers. They purchased something from you. That automatically puts them in a relationship with you (And probably in a leadership position, since ...
So in chapter 1, we had a single word attested differently, but only in the Harley MS. In chapter 2 we had half a sentence missing from the Bollandist text, but found in all the others. That looks bad: it can only be a copying mistake by the unknown Bollandist editor, who lost ...
A few minutes later I hear Kim come in on her cell phone. Seconds laster she's at my door. "Why didn't you call and say you were bringing donuts. I brought donuts too." "Good for you. There's not a problem with their being an abundance of donuts. Besides, I brought Shipley's...
It’s really easy to rationalize that pre-modern man just didn’t understand mental illness. Until you work in a psych ward, and realize that we don’t, either. (And that there are many times when demonic possession seems very, very real.) accordingtohoyt says: February 10, 2021 at 2...
Becky Richardson, Ami Bennett and Frankie Wells have just two weeks to transform this empty space in a former multi-storey car park into a fully functioning studio and office. And while the neon logo is still to be hung, onekey part of their remit is already sorted: their ...
in her brother’s honor so he would forever be with her. She told me if I Googled his name, I would find his death notice. I have Googled his name in the past, and always came up with nothing. After we hung up, I did so again. And there, like a serrated blade, it was. ...
The Acta being thus completed, Mabillon made a “literary journey” to Flanders, in search of documents and materials for his work, and in 1675 he published the first of four volumes of “Vetera Analecta” in which he collected the fruit of his travels and some shorter works of historical...