They included the famous portrait of Lee herself sitting defiantly in Hitler’s bath taken by David Scherman after the pair had talked their way into the Fuhrer’s Munich apartment on the day of his suicide. Her stunning war images were eventually published with Lee’s own accompanying text ...
2021 arctic freeze, and we had no blackouts in this area, although other parts of the State did have a few, minor blackouts. 0 Tom Abbott Reply to griff December 21, 2021 10:22 am “nd the folly of not connecting your grid outside your state.” If Texas were connected to other...
Kudos to Thomas Edison who invented not just the light bulb, but the whole electric utility industry. Edison’s original vision incorporated the entire physics-engineering-economics continuum discussed in this article. His execution of the plan became The Edison Electric Illuminating Company. Today, i...
She came out of an unlikely environment for such perilous adventures. Her parents were British citizens who migrated to Canada in the early 1900s out of a romantic longing to carve a livelihood out of the Canadian prairies. A cholera epidemic drove them to Vancouver, and the start of World ...
1. In January 2001, then California Governor Gray Davis declares a state of emergency because ofrolling power blackouts. Enron, rightly, gets the blame and implodes soon afterwards. InFebruary 2001, Enron's Ken Laygives the hot seat to Jeff Skillings. Inadvertently, all three men become green...
's Dutch General Election has been forced to give up his efforts to form a coalition that could command a majority in the Netherlands' state assembly and now accepts he will not be the next prime minister of the Netherlands after talks based on him leading the next government were ...