Vilnius Cathedral is the most important church in Lithuania. A church in this place was likely established in 1251. The current façade dates to 1801 (architect Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevičius), but many of the side chapels are older. ©Augustinas Žemaitis. The nearby green area consists...
In 2004, a new statue of Hachikō was erected on the original stone pedestal from Shibuya in front of the Akita Dog Museum in Odate. After the release of the American movie Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009) filmed in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the Japanese Consulate in US helped the Blackstone...
Lack of data prevents generation of the series early than 1900. The current survey from 1984 onward is taken as the basis, and the series for 1900-1983 are constructed consistently with the 1984-onward segment. To the best of the present-author's knowledge, there has been no previous work...
What Was the Consumer Price Index Then? A Data Study Lawrence H. Officer University of Illinois at Chicago [The author is grateful to Christopher Hanes, Peter H. Lindert, and Samuel H. Williamson, for useful comments. The study is the responsibility of the author alone.] 2 The purpose of...
During construction of MacDill air field in 1939, Lisbon Avenue was extended as the first road to the base and was soon renamed after Col. Leslie MacDill (MacDill Ave.) Bayshore Boulevard was a brick street that terminated at the base boundary, where motorists sometimes got stuck in the sa...
What Was the Consumer Price Index Then? A Data Study Lawrence H. Officer University of Illinois at Chicago [The author is grateful to Christopher Hanes, Peter H. Lindert, and Samuel H. Williamson, for useful comments. The study is the responsibility of the author alone.] 2 The purpose of...