thebestpredictorofwhowilllivethelongest. Amongthe5,114 peoplefollowedinthe study,395haddied.Thesedeathswereoccurring inworking-agepeople,oftenwithchildren,before theageof60.Theratesofdeathamongparticipantsinthisgroupdidclearlyshowracialdifferences,withapproximately9% ofblacksdyingat anearlyagecomparedto6% ofwhi...
a8201-MAX MONTHS STUDY 8201MAX几个月研究[translate] aChinese literature has the longest uninterrupted tradition among all the literatures of the world 中国文学有最长的不间断的传统在世界的所有literatures之中[translate]
I’ve long wondered about one of the longest modernist novels ever written, Evelyn Scott’s A Calendar of Sin (1931), an epic of the Reconstruction and after that took two volumes to encompass its over 1300 pages. When I stumbled across a copy with the original dust jackets at a reasonab...
The language of Homer is of course a problem in itself. One thing is certain:it is not a language that anyone ever spoke. It is an artificial, poetic language — as the German scholar Witte puts it: “The language of the Homeric poems isa creation of epic verse.” It was also a dif...
What has China been doing in this part of the world? The Belo Monte project is the longest and largest ultra-high voltage power transmission system in the world. It stretches over 2,500 kilometers and transmits electricity from the hydro-rich northern Brazil to the south where most ...
In two volumes of nearly a thousand pages in total, The Melville Log may be the longest biography never written. Seventy years after its first publication, it’s still one of the most innovative takes on biography and a woefully under-recognized attempt to revitalize a form remarkably resistant...
Viña Delmar had the the longest career, publishing her 16th novel, McKeever, in 1976 and passing at the age of 86 in 1990. Of the several hundred books (and even more magazine stories) produced by this tentet, Zane Grey’s books have survived the best, although Ursula Parrott’s Ex...
the longest distance between two places on earth has been reduced to a flight of no greater than 24 hours, and our planet is becoming flat– one tap on a mobile phone connects us to the other side of the world in a split second...
A Tale of Two CitiesMany people think the best-selling book of all time is one of the Harry Potter books. It’s true that all the Harry Potter books together have sold about 450 million copies. But the most popular single novel is much older.A Tale of Two Cities was written by ...
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28 ...