have/take a look was putting pieces of wood
Spiritualist churches filled to overflowing following WW1 with those yearning any message from a loved one. The 1920-1930 was a market pull, people needing answers. The mediums were therefore in great demand. Frauds were also common, similar to todays deep fake technology which was adopted ...
Or else. This is what FedNow is all about. Not immediately, of course. But piece-by-piece. Just as the income tax was only paid – at first – by the “rich.” Who of course didn’t pay it, being rich enough to pay politicians to enact exemptions and “write-offs” so as to a...
“In the wake of its defeat in WW1,”Decolonize Palestinewrites, “the Ottoman empire was dissolved and its regions carved up and divided among various European colonial powers. In the Levant, Palestine and Jordan fell under the mandate of the British, while Syria and Lebanon to that of the...
Given that so many hotels love to refer to themselves as five stars, we’ve seen some hotels take it to the extreme. For example,the Burj Al Arab in Dubairefers to itself as the world’s only seven star hotel. It seems that this star rating was self-awarded, so… ...
is the building dedicated for "returnees" - emigrant Lithuanians who chosen to return to Soviet Lithuania after Stalin's invitation the late 1940s. These returnees were important for propaganda but with the exception of apartments in this building Stalin gave them little else, breaking the ...
In its past, however, the view down through the web of steel and glass that is the Grand Palais’ ceiling would have revealed crowds exploring exhibits at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 (for which the Grand Palais was built); the rows of beds of a WW1 military hospital; and the busy...
The first one is in my collection and the presence of lead can hardly be noticed as it was effectively hidden inside the knob. The other one, unfortunately, was bought by someone else before I could acquire it, but it was a very slender stick with a knob on which every aperture had ...
Though the poem could be confused with random, mad ramblings, sound-poetry was really a deeply considered method in experimental literature. The idea was to bring the sounds of human vocalization to the foreground by removing everything else.Hugo Ball, Karawane, 1916...
Your son’s take home pay is someone else’s debt that can’t be extinguished, only traded to some other debt serf. The only way to pay off debt is to have no money at all (except for physical coins which aren’t debt based, but do account for only a trivial amount of the money...