The creation of ENIAC is a remarkable story in its own right, but there’s an extra facet hidden just beneath its surface. While the design of the computer is credited to John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, the programming of the system fell to a remarka...
Yu grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s. He said all universities had been shut down for about 10 years before being re-opened in 1978, a year before he would graduate high school in 1979. There were mil...
is an unassuming landmark. With a runtime of just under 34 minutes, Pride’s album is shorter than many of the recordings that are cited as among the greatest of all time, includingJohnny Cash’sAt Folsom Prisonand Buck Owens’Carnegie Hall Concert.But despite its brevity, the album is...
That is to say, Euro-American scholars turned to Tantric subjects in the 1980s and 90s because the counterculture from which they had just emerged in the 60s and 70s had earlier turned to these same traditions as "Asian countercultures" in which historical actors, accurately or n...
Rock through the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s at this indoor minigolf experience in South Dakota. The course’s 18decade-themed holesinclude several standard obstacles like windmills, but the black light elevates them from boring to thrilling. Those looking to spice the game up ...
[the ’60s and ’70s] were just the times, and I was younger. I don’t think I would say my earlier work had negative energy. There were incredibly beautiful, positive songs on the albums right from the beginning. “I’ll be Your Mirror” is a very beautiful song. So is “Pale ...
(Few knew at the time that the magazine story was actually a fiction. Cohn, a Brit, had merely looked back to London’s early-‘60s mod scene — another working-class youth-culture obsessed with flashy wardrobes — and transplanted it to Brooklyn. “My story was a fraud,” he admitted...
“He was the first person to diversify a rural economy,” Anne Addyman, who runsAddyman Booksin Hay, tells Thomas. “[W]hat he did was cutting edge in the 60s and 70s.” But as Florence points out, Booth was also fond of “the party and the good times.”...
While many older persons in industrial societies become weak and ill in their 60s and 70s, some Caucasus people aged 110-140, work in the fields beside their great-great-grandchildren. Even the idea of aging is foreign to them. When asked, “At what age does youth end?” most of these...
Beyond music, Presley ventured into acting, starring in a string of movies throughout the '60s and '70s. While his films varied in critical acclaim, they cemented his status as an entertainer. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP {{#rendered}}{{/rendered}} ...