I didn’t specifically take any photos of the bus station, but mostly of vehicles that happened to be parked there. The photo below does show part of the site. The view is looking towards Valley Bridge, with Westwood on the left. The building that I drew is on the right. In the ...
Today, baseball pitch counts heavily dictate a pitcher’s lifespan. In 1944, relief pitchers were an anomaly, and starters tossed well over 100 pitches per outing. Charley “Red” Barrett only needed about half of that when he took the mound on Aug. 10, as he threw a58-pitch complete ga...
Today, baseball pitch counts heavily dictate a pitcher’s lifespan. In 1944, relief pitchers were an anomaly, and starters tossed well over 100 pitches per outing. Charley “Red” Barrett only needed about half of that when he took the mound on Aug. 10, as he threw a58-pitch complete ga...
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 ...
East Slavic population over the next couple of centuries. The nameRus’was brought by them from Sweden, while the city of Kyiv had been already there since the 5thcentury. Christianization, as Viking’s typical geopolitical move, happened at the end of the 10thcentury in the Byzantium ...
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...
Playing with the historical Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker’s character Dracula, the novel follows the investigations of an unnamed narrator, her father, his mentor, and other historians as they try to unravel the mystery of what exactly happened to Dracula and where he is buried. It all ...
It is very much linked to a specific era in film, like German Expressionism or French New Wave. Noir film is very much of the American urban 1940s — mid 1950s. (No one agrees on exact dates. Some critics only include the 1940s. However the film noir heyday happened between 1947 and...
1945 Australia is admitted to the United Nations. 1864 US post offices begin selling money orders as a safer alternative to sending cash through the mail. 1755 Over 60,000 people die when a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami combine to level buildings and swamp cities. 1604 William Shakes...
My second unexpected highlight happened during my day-trip to historic sites in downtown Honolulu. I reached them using the island’s reliable and renown local public transit system called “TheBus.” Downtown Honolulu seemed like a ghost town when I went there my second day on the island....