Hajela, Deepti
English is such a hodgepodge of different languages – it’s essentially Germanic but a lot of its vocabulary comes from French, and technical words stem from Latin and Greek. This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes irregulari...
“One of Commissioner [Robert] Moses’s most striking miracles is the conversion of a vast swamp and a small mountain of odorous refuse in Queens into the site for the New York World’s Fair of 1939. He was given the task of preparing this uninviting terrain for the great exposition and ...
Take a walk down the "Yellow Brick Road" and head straight to the 45th Annual Oz-Stravaganza Festival in Chittenango, New York. It's the largest and longest running Wizard of Oz themed festival in the world, celebrating the birthplace of Lyman Frank Baum, the man who started it all. Eve...
in any case, already lost. In return, Louis pledged himself to hand over to the English in due course certain territory which protected the border of Guyenne: lowerSaintonge,Agenais, and some lands inQuercy. This treaty stood a fair chance of being respected by two rulers such as Henry an...
The world's population is ageing, and four of the top 10 most rapidly ageing developing nations are from the region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Although an ageing population heralds likely increases in chronic disease, disability-related dependence, and economic burden, the societal...
1964: Black-and-White: Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek); Color: Harry Stradling (My Fair Lady) 1965: Black-and-White: Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools); Color: Freddie Young (Doctor Zhivago) 1966: Black-and-White: Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?); Color: Ted Moore (A...
Then-President Lyndon B. Johnson at the opening of New York World's Fair, New York, 1964.Credit: Sipa USA via AP And like the 1939 World’s Fair, which opened just ahead of World War II and also was hosted on the same site, Tirella said: “It really couldn’t have been at a wo...
So it's some of the best fabric you can find in the world. And so we started making our suits with that fabric, lining the front. Then I felt like okay, now we've really got it right and I feel confident about it. Felix: Yeah. And so even to this day, are you still getting...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o