Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. -Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (1914-2010)
Leaked emails from Hillary's longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal show that he and another former official from Bill Clinton's administration were secretly lobbying the secretary of state on behalf of a billionaire in the former Soviet state of Georgia who was seeking closer ties with Putin's Russia—seemingly in violation of a federal law designed to prevent foreign powers from covertly wielding influence within the United States. E-mails from Blumenthal's hacked account revealed that he was running what amounts to a private, off-the-books intelligence operation for Clinton, sending her detailed reports on goings-on in Libya, Europe, and elsewhere. Among these memos is one urging Clinton to consider re-examining the State Department's posture toward the opposition in Georgia.
In the eighteen-seventies, Alexander Graham Bell, a recent immigrant to Canada, fell in love with the sound of the Mohawk language and created an orthography. (The Mohawk made him an honorary chief.) The grammar is at least as challenging as that of Latin.
Who is....Omar Khayyam?
The mother tongue of more than three billion people is one of twenty, which are, in order of their current predominance: Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Javanese, German, Wu Chinese, Korean, French, Telugu, Marathi, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese, and Urdu.
Golden oldie:
Edward Fitzgerald was, according to the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, "as far aloof from the ordinary activities of the literature of his day as his life was remote from that of the world in general." In 1859 his "free translation" of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was published. Fitzgerald's version of the 12th century Persian verse became one of the most popular works of the 19th century and one of the best-selling books of poetry ever. Some say that its religious skepticism had an impact on Victorian England equivalent to Darwin's The Origin of Species, also published in 1859. In his day, Khayyam was known less as a poet than as a philosopher, astronomer and mathematician -- and today is still so known, for his work on cubic equations and binomial theory. He was often in disfavor with the orthodox Muslim government in his native Persia for his appreciation of the worldly life that comes through in the Rubaiyat.
In Dubai the population is predominantly composed of foreign passport holders, majorly migrants from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines and expatriates from the Western world, with only 20% of the population made up of citizens. Singapore as well has a large number of expatriates and almost 40% of the inhabitants of this metropolitan city are foreign-born workers, professionals or students.
The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. families has plummeted to its lowest level in at least three decades.
D.H. Lawrence finally got enough money to return to the U.S. with the private subscription sales of his banned Lady Chatterley's Lover. He longed for his ranch in New Mexico. But, with the banning of the book, he himself seemed banned. He could never get approval for his immigration. (He was terribly ill with tuberculosis although filled with denial over the disease.) Even as he finally agreed to a sanatorium in Italy-still refusing to say the "T-word" -- he would be pouring over ship's timetables for Atlantic crossings. A last snapshot of him, taken on the day of his death, March 2, 1930, shows him at 85 lbs, in bed, reading a book about the voyage of Columbus to the New World.
In 1917, the U.S. took formal possession of the Danish West Indies. Renamed the Virgin Islands, this chain consists of St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John and about fifty other small islands, most of which are uninhabited. Lying about sixty-five kilometers east of Puerto Rico at the end of the Greater Antilles, the U.S. purchased the islands from Denmark for $25 million because of their strategic location in relation to the Panama Canal.
In 221 B.C., the Qin defeated its last rivals, and its ruler became the first emperor of united China. The Han dynasty replaced it in 207 B.C..
“In 50 years of practicing law, I have never seen a more one-sided presentation by the media in the United States of the case,” says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. “Everybody is saying there’s no evidence against her and she’s totally innocent. It’s just not true.”
Waves of pro-Knox publicity have permeated much of the American media, thanks in part to the backing of Seattle’s largest PR company, Gogerty Marriott.
Appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs, the"Amen break" is a 6 to 7 second drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Cylvester Coleman in the song 'Amen, Brother' performed by the 1960s funk and soul outfit The Winstons.
Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in 1892. She took her professional name from a character in the play "Rosmersholm," by Henrik Ibsen. She was a writer, feminist and literary innovator. In 1912, West wrote a scathing attack on H.G. Wells's Marriage, which she found to be derogatory towards women. Her sharp words and lively style intrigued Wells and led to their meeting. They became lovers the next year and she gave birth to his son, Anthony West, in 1914 (her only child). She was an extremely well regarded writer; Wells said "she wrote like God." One of her interesting books with some application to current times is The Meaning of Treason, which has been called a forerunner of In Cold Blood.
Mercurial: adjective: 1. Fickle; volatile; changeable. 2. Animated; quick-witted; shrewd. 3. Relating to the metal, planet, or god Mercury. After Mercury, Roman god of commerce, thievery, eloquence, communication, etc. The planet is named after the god and in ancient astrology those born under the supposed influence of Mercury were ascribed his qualities. Earliest documented use: 1300.
6 million homes have been lost to foreclosure since 2007, another 1 million remain in the pipeline, many of them legacy loans originated during the housing bubble. If you properly compare the situation to a time before the widespread issuance of subprime mortgages, we’re still well above normal levels of foreclosure starts. In addition, over one in six homes remain underwater, where the mortgage is bigger than the value of the home, a dangerous situation if we hit another economic downturn.
Poe wrote two reviews of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in 1841. In the first review, with only a few serialized chapters, Poe deduced the killer.
Jennifer Bradley has a policy paper titled “The Changing Face of the Heartland: Preparing America’s Diverse Workforce for Tomorrow,” apparently commissioned by the Brookings institute. It purports to discuss the changing demographics of Minnesota, with the aging and decline of whites and the influx of “Mexicans, Hmong, Indians, Vietnamese, Somalis, Liberians and Ethiopians.” She sees in the diversity explosion in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Midwest microcosm a widening “race-based education and achievement gap” that will “become a drag on workforce growths unless something was done to reverse these trends.” Now that sounds bad. That sounds as if the new arrivals are not able to maintain the production of the declining old population and that resources of that old native population will need to be shifted away from them to those new arrivals who have not produced.
A lot of suggestions will be offered; an obvious one is decrease the number of new, unproductive arrivals. That will probably be low on the list of suggestions.
The last name Esposito is 4th among the most widespread surnames in Italy. Although it is frequent throughout the country, it is especially prevalent in the Campania region and, most specifically, in the Naples area. It is said the name came from 'senza esse sposata' meaning 'without being married.' More likely it derives from Latin expositus of the Latin verb exponere ("to place outside", "to expose") and literally means "placed outside", "exposed". Italian tradition claims that the surname was given to foundlings who were abandoned or given up for adoption and handed over to an orphanage. (an Ospizio degli esposti in Italian, literally a "home or hospice of the exposed"). They were called espositi because they would get abandoned and "exposed" in a public place.
In the 1990s, physicists inducted two new temporal units into the official lexicon, which are worth knowing for their appellations alone: the zeptosecond or 10-21 seconds, and the yoctosecond, or 10-24 seconds. The briskest time span recognized to date is the chronon, or Planck time, and it lasts about 5 x 10-44 power seconds. This is the time it takes light to travel what could be the shortest possible slice of space, the Planck length, the size of one of the hypothetical 'strings' that some physicists say lie at the base of all matter and force in the universe.
The Republican party of Abraham Lincoln was highly protectionist, and the U.S. grew to be the world's economic colossus with a consistently high level of protectionism. It was only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after its manufacturing supremacy was well established, that the U.S. began to selectively adopt a free trade policy as a means of expanding its markets on a country-by-country basis. Money raised by tariffs was only secondary, the real purpose of the tariff was protection.
AAAAaaaaannnnnnnddddd.....a graph:
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