what I sincerelythoughtwould be my “dream job”, as a video engineer at theBritish Broadcasting Corporation(BBC). I finally obtained that job in 1984, almost exactly 40 years ago, so this seems like an appropriate time to review the details of what happened then, and my reactions to it....
Besides Pilot Mountain on the top left, Harteigen in Norway is seen on the top right; Devil’s Tower in Wyoming on the bottom left; and Cooroora in Australia on the bottom right.I think “Monadnock” is a word used to cover-up the existence of gigantic tree stumps....
But then, something new happened. The Japan Meteorological Agency, a government organization,issued a ‘megaquake advisory’for the first time. This pair of words may appear disquieting—and to some extent, they are. There is a ticking bomb below Japanese waters, a giant crevasse where one tec...
D-Day saw unprecedented cooperation between international armed forces, with more than 2 million troops in the UK in preparation for the invasion, according to theImperial War Museums(IWM). Most of these troops were American, British and Canadian, the IWM reports, but ...
While What Lies Beneath was received well by both viewers and critics, there's a chance the twisty plot led to some confusion over what exactly happened to Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), and why the ghost was haunting her. The movie blended many aspects of both psychological and supernatural ...
This happened in 1914,before we had helicopters. Unaipon lived most of his life in Adelaide and worked for the Aborigines’ Friends' Association。He worked and travelled around southeastern Australia for fifty years.Sometimes,while travelling from town to town,he was told he couldn't stay in a...
If it was so good, what happened?The gold standard eventually collapsed from the impact of World War I. During the war, nations on both sides had to finance their huge military expenses and did so by printing more paper currency. As the currency in circulation exceeded each country’s gold...
What Happened On October 3, including Today's Trivia, Birthdays, Events, plus daily puzzles and daily quotes
‘sPlan & Elevation: the Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks. This quartet was written to commission by Harvard, celebrating the 75th birthday of the university’s famous estate; further, Shaw was the original music fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2014-15. Now what I think happened was that the Pennies ...
Joe Theismann’s name from THEES-man to THEIS-man, which happened to rhyme with Heisman. Great is an appropriate word to describe Valdiserri’s contributions to Notre Dame. He’s a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Hall of Fame and was named one of...