Martin had established a distinguished career in higher education, serving most recently as president of New Mexico State University. 校园 历史 Memorial Tower is in the heart of LSU's campus. The current LSU campus is located on 2,000 acres (8.1 km²) just south of downtown Baton Rouge....
By the time the "Piano Man" was a teenager, he had mastered the instrument and was starting various rock bands. Joel has gone on to become one of the most successful pop-rock singer-songwriters of all time. His home state is well-represented in his music with songs like "New York ...
Written with the Latin alphabet, Latvian is the language of the Latvian people and the official language of the country. It is an inflective language with several analytical forms, three dialects, and German syntactical influence. The oldest known examples of written Latvian are from a 1585 catech...
After decades of downturn, the urban core is once again reinvigorated today, with demands for residential real estate leading to the transformations of old skyscrapers and the construction of new, taller, sleeker ones. Chicago: Then Chicago History Museum // Getty Images Chicago: Then Chicago is ...
Above: Surgery being performed at the Hospital of Saint Raphael (Conn.) in the late 1930s. Operating rooms were often located near large windows and under skylights to offer greater illumination. (Yale New Haven Hospital) For all the challenges of 21st century, I always remind myself that ...
Solid-state lithium metal batteries show substantial promise for overcoming theoretical limitations of Li-ion batteries to enable gravimetric and volumetric energy densities upwards of 500 Wh kg−1 and 1,000 Wh l−1, respectively. While z
When, in the course of human events, it becomesnecessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connectedthem with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separateand equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitlethem, a decent re...
Producer and engineer Steve Albini, who worked with Nirvana, Pixies and more, died of a heart attack in May at the age of 61. He was also a member of bands Big Black, Shellac and Rapeman. Dennis Thompson Michael Ochs Archives Dennis Thompson ...
Sonny replied, “This is the famous Elvis Presley darling, but he’s not here officially yet, he’s just visiting for a spell, slap one of those silver wrist bands on him please.” Elvis interrupted, “Excuse me sir, what’s the silver band mean?” Smiling, Sonny said, “Oh, it me...
of a wood and plaster Federal Hall replica in Bryant Park, which at the time was a neglected patch of land behind the New York Public Library and a favorite spot for the city’s homeless, their numbers rapidly growing during one of the worst years of the Depression (unemployment hovered ne...