How do we know about things that happened thousands of years ago, when there were no videos or photos? One answer is written records. The earliest written records of Chinese culture are known as oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文). They were discovered 121 years ago. ...
Paint cans and other flammable items in the garage were just part of the scenery. That kind of stuff only happened in the movies! Dads Project Car Gerry Dincher (CC BY-SA 2.0) Dad's Project Car While you may have had a 2-car garage, there was only room for one (if that) because...
There has recently been a lot of discussion over the length of baseball games. But to really understand the problem or even decide if there is one, we first need to put it in context and examine what’s behind the increase. To that end, I have looked at changes in World Series games...
Unless you seek to deny that it happened there is no on the other hand regarding the Holocaust, the planned, systematic effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The mere idea that there is a both sides to the great crime underscores the absurdity of...
There is a saying in France that states, "The government could fall, the Louvre (卢浮宫)could be broken into or creatures from other planets could land on earth, but if any of these things happened during the Tour de France, no one would notice." The Tour de France is the most famous...
11.There is a saying in France that states:"The government could fall,the Louvre could be broken into or aliens could land on Earth,but if any of these things happened during the Tour de France,no one would notice."The Tour de France is the most famous cycling race in the world.The ...
A tribute to Pete Seeger, 1919-2014 Below is a sermon I wrote and delivered in 2010. I was so sad to learn, via NPR this morning, that Pete Seeger had passed away today, January 27, 2014. This sermon puts into words the admiration I have had, throughout my life, for this musician...
happened, the news of its success reached London, the capital of that empire, on the very morning a new British queen, Elizabeth II, was being crowned in Westminster Abbey. Almost everything meant more than it had a right to mean, on Everest in 1953. … It did not always seem so at...
” Isabella had known Cousins for a year and on her wedding day, he brought Fannie Edwards to her mother’s house, announcing that he had selected her to be a bridesmaid. “He explained that Miss Edwards being a pedestrienne, he made her acquaintance in a professional way.” But after ...
Charles Anderson points in particular to “the proliferation of youth associations in the early 1930s” and “the rise of youth as an assertive, ambitious, and politically frustrated element” that had an inordinate effect on tactics, strategy and the trajectory of the Palestinian national movement...