Inspired by the earlier Lincoln Highway in 1914, it ran from Michigan to Florida. Donner Pass• United States – Sierra Nevada, CaliforniaA high mountain pass through the northern Sierra Nevada mountains in California. November 1846, the Donner Party was forced to spend the winter on the ...
The D.M.V. is so hated because it does not make status distinctions. You can’t pay to separate yourself from the masses.Everyone has to search the same cumbersome websites for the right forms. You have to compete for an appointment or show up early, whether you have a high net worth...
The Sheep Queenis autobiographical. According toThomas Savage’s bioon Wikipedia, a lot of details about Thomas Burton’s life are the same as his. He didn’t even change the first names. I thought that the construction of the novel was a bit clumsy at times. We hear a lot about Amy ...
The twelve-year-old tried not to think about morning chores awaiting him in just twelve hours: emptying the chamber pots, milking the cow again, then collecting the ashes from the potbelly stove and spreading them on the driveway to create traction. His only consolation was, his seven sibling...
Time magazine reported: "A cream-colored Lincoln Continental driven by the President of the United States flashed up a long Texas hill, swung into the left lane to pass two cars poking along under 85 miles per hour, and thundered on over the crest of the hill – squarely into the path ...
Virginia Bennett, the novel’s narrator, is a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force stationed at an RAF Lancaster bomber base near Lincoln, assigned to the base motor pool. Lincolnshire, with its broad, fairly flat countryside and proximity to the North Sea coast, was, with East Anglia...
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way, all our present difficulty[8].” –Abraham Lincoln Imagine if: The intelligence of best-practices was implemented against crime, dr...
There was a time when I knew every record store from Cheyenne, WY to Lincoln, NE. In high school I’d drive to my favorite store in Sterling, CO. I can still see the poster for Janet Jackson’sJanetalbum in the window. I don’t remember its name, and I’m not even sure I ever...
1956 Lincoln Continental Everyone knows a Lincoln Continental is a status symbol today, and it was just as spectacular in the 50s. However, the price tag made it impossible for most to afford, which makes it even more special. (image via Wikipedia) Author Jack Robinson Last Updated: Jan...
In Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln’s The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. pp. 46-47, writes more about the Cathars and their beliefs.The Cathars were also dualists. All Christian thought, of course, can ultimately be seen as dualistic, insisting on a conflict between ...