His novel You Know Me Al, written in the form of letters from a baseball player to a friend, is still extremely funny, while his theatrical parodies display a sardonic surrealism (a line from one of those short plays is still quoted in anthologies: “The curtain is lowered for seven days...
Jan 10, 2025 • 8 min read Pick your next astrotourism destination with this guide to the best places to go stargazing around the world. Login Save your favorites! Sign into save, get inso & more National Parks 9 of the best places in the world to see bioluminescence ...
Financial stress and work shifts(倒班)can play roles in sleeplessness, too, Chervin added. He suggested those may be contributing factors in West Virginia, an economically depressed state with tens of thousands of people working in coal mining. ...
A. kill an insect in a second B. digest a fly in a few hours C. be found floating on a quiet lake D. capture an insect in 1/50 of a second 10.If the trap door of a meat-eating plant is closed, the plant is A. fooling insects into taking a sip B. producing nectar ...
The growth of the knowledge is well reflected in the series of international meetings on this topic that started with a first conference in the UK in 1979 and has since been held 11 times. The first conferences were dominated by asbestos, crystalline silica and coal dust, which were mostly ...
A child laborer known as a “hurrier” is shown harnessed to a coal corve. Hurriers were required to drag an empty coal cart down from the shaft bottom along passageways between 24 to 30 inches high and return with a full load from the coal face. One child would be harnessed to the...
The growth of the knowledge is well reflected in the series of international meetings on this topic that started with a first conference in the UK in 1979 and has since been held 11 times. The first conferences were dominated by asbestos, crystalline silica and coal dust, which were mostly ...
Financial stress and work shifts(倒班)can play roles in sleeplessness too Chervin added. He suggested those may be contributing factors in West Virginia an economically depressed state with tens of thousands of people working in coal mining. The report was based on results of an annual telephone...
I found fascinating the personal journals of Greer Lankton, a revolutionary artist who took part in the art scene in New York City’s East Village during the 1980s. Her work is autobiographical and reveals her obsessions as a transgender person and a drug addict. She “explored and questione...
Huntington sits on the Ohio River at the point where three American states meet: Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. The town itself is proudly West Virginian, but within minutes you can be in either of the other two states. In the 19th and 20th centuries its geography was its...