Dune is a novel written by Frank Herbert,which is set hundreds of years in the future.In the novel,building computers (1)___ (forbid). (This is because,in the novel's past, ‘(2)___ (think) machines' became so powerful that they almost took over the world.) Instead,there are ...
The Geminids are considered one of the best meteor showers every year because the individual meteors are bright, and they come fast and furious. The Geminid meteor shower is nearly 200 years old, according to known records — the first recorded observation was in 1833 from a riverboat on the...
A man was exploring caves by the seashore when he found a bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls.It was like someone had 1 the balls and left them out in the dune to bake. They didn’t look like much. but they 2 the man. so he took the bag out of th
Today being Father’s Day I recall how I used to avoid this day when I was a Facebook subscriber. “Here’s me and dad at the ball game…” or “enjoying a couple of beers…”, came post after post. “Here’s us hanging out at the mall… and now playing a round of golf…”...
Naturally, it all comes together, more or less, for opening night, which it seems was also closing night as well. Along the way, there are a few scenes that also feel written or semi-improvised in order to add a little drama or pathos. For instance, when Sam and Pinny discuss their ...
“At first sight, [Chaix] gave promise of being a man full of merit and candor, who, beneath a pensive and cold exterior, combined notable talents and solid judgment with the rarest and most estimabale qualities of soul. Monsieur Chaix had the same passion for botany as I. He was made...
shrakkbookattack Like so many of my friends, when I moved to Pittsburgh I was dead broke. I had something like $180 dollars in my wallet, and I lost my wallet the night I moved to the city. I didn’t get a job for about a month, and that first pay check takes two weeks to ...
Over the last near-decade, this site has been a place for me to talk about movies as I watch “the canon,” whatever that means, and 2022 was the first time since I started doing this that we got a release of theSight and Soundlist of director and critic top filmsof the decade. ...
Monte Alban (pronounced as one word, like Ricardo’s last name) was the first urban complex in Mesoamerica and dates from 500 B.C. Prior to Monte Alban social organization had been based loosely on agricultural communities, but in a remarkable effort by the leaders of the main villages, ...
“I do think sometimes with a series finale, people finally catch up on what they missed beforehand,” says Roxana Hadadi, who has written about Reservation Dogs on Vulture, including this excellent profile of Jacobs.“There’s the sense of, Okay, this thing is over, it’s a complete ...