In the 19th Century, ships sailing around Cape Horn carried world trade from Australia to Europe, and also passenger and trade goods between the coasts of the United States. It was a recognized route for those going to the California gold fields. Though popular, the route was also extremely ...
That it coincides with the emigration from Europe of artists, musicians and composers escaping the war is no accident. What Igor Stravinsky calls the Tradition, of Western music, and Milan Kundera holds to be Europe’s greatest cultural achievement, was transported, along with Stravinsky himself (...
White recalling the world of The New Yorker’s first days. Given the massive economic and societal shifts that occurred from 1925 to 1935, those first days seemed distant to White, who felt old, “not in years but events.” DAYS OF YORE…E.B. White noted the many changes that had ...
I was a piece of me is headed to the lab and someone left the sex-toys in the middle of the road in the middle of the road. I have been to the supermarket. I have seen grown-ups in pajamas buying bananas, and hopeless fat young men in long short pants waddling like zombie-ants,...
“The science fair projects of today could become the products and businesses of tomorrow,” he said. “If you’re inventing things in the third grade, what are you going to do by the time you get to college?” 1.What is special about the bicycle President Obama rode? A. It can ...
“can largely avoid the fate many companies experienced in 2008/2009.” GM was ahead of the curve in preparing for a downturn. It exited unprofitable markets like Europe, and in November 2018 announced plans to shed thousands of jobs and close factories as part of a $6 billion cost-saving...
Greene, John 1746 A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of the most Esteemed Relations, Which Have Been hitherto Published in any Language; Comprehending Everything Remarkable in Its Kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Vol. 3. T. Astley, London, UK. Google Scho...
The Cultural Revolution short-circuited in China what had been for Europe prefigured, as it occurred, in pre-European Russia, in a delirious Bakhtinian orgy of prefiguration, that sacrificed the best minds, along with any appearance of permanence. As Orwell wrote in 1944: “Every...
That it coincides with the emigration from Europe of artists, musicians and composers escaping the war is no accident. What Igor Stravinsky calls the Tradition, of Western music, and Milan Kundera holds to be Europe’s greatest cultural achievement, was transported, along with Stravinsky himself (...