"What happens only once a year yet 24 times in a day? The New Year. No matter the language, the cultural background, or the geographic location, almost everyone rings in the New Year at midnight on December 31. So celebrate it time zone by time zone with some place-specific drinks and snacks."
Question: In what other democracy is it permissible for the government of the day to hide from the legislature for months at a time? To ignore explicit parliamentary votes demanding the production of documents? To stonewall independent inquiries? Perhaps the rules allow it elsewhere, but is it the practice? Does convention not still forbid it? Is it not viewed in other countries as dictatorial behaviour, and therefore, you know … not done?
What manner of wench could resist such an offer? I've always been a sucker for a tanner with several goode hats. See more vintage personal ads at McSweeney's'Share Mine Agony' − SWMLonesome tanner. Wage of twelve pounds, seven shillings in the year. Owner of several goode hats. I seek a woman in her eleventh yeare of age or more, faire skinn-ed so as to appear sickly, and of dignified carriage. Her posture shall be impecc'bly erect, so much that folkes often inquire where she found such a stiff coat. If not erect to my liking, I shall contrive a busk of whalebone or small-grain'd wood to correkt her spine. I will teache her to suffer for the Lord.
"For more than a century, she was lost to history. Three years ago, she was rediscovered. As it turned out, the first immigrant to set foot on Ellis Island when it opened on Jan. 1, 1892, an Irish girl named Annie Moore, did not go west and die in Texas, as had long been believed, but spent her days as a poor immigrant on the Lower East Side, dying in 1924." Read more
In the 1940s, these were the sources of ideas for movies: "Play," "Short Story or Novel," "Newspaper Story or Current Event," "Original Story," "Magazine Article," or "Historical Incident."The Infomercantile
On another note: this particular flowchart is one of the few places the words "Restaurants," "Mimeograph," "Arsenal," "Publicity," and "Bits & Extras" fit together so well. From the 20th Century Fox flowcharts collection.
Once I started researching the Dutch Master Still Life paintings I became fascinated by them and their place in history. Pieter Claesz, Willem Kalf and David Bailly were the artists that most captured my imagination. I soon found I could read the narratives buried within their paintings and found the messages still resonate hundreds of years later.Via
The Dutch Masters also delighted in amazing the viewers with their virtuoso skills at creating paintings that perfectly imitated real life. With photographs becoming such a commodity today, and technology making it possible for anyone to take a passably good image, I find it rewarding to create photographs that look like master paintings. Kevin Best
A Child's Christmas In Wales was published in 1955. It is an anecdotal sketch of the festive season which emerged from a piece originally written for radio. It is an exercise in storytelling and Thomas recreates the experience of Christmas as though it were a fairy tale. Read more at BBC WalesListen to Thomas reading it: A Child’s Christmas in Wales (MP3 19:42)
The website Journalism.org monitors the news from 55 outlets every week, calculating what percent of the week’s print, television, radio, and internet reporting is devoted to each story. Our latest Transparency is a look at the totals for all the news this year, divided into categories of politics, culture, business, and plain old bad news.GOOD
"The man was sentenced to 12 years in jail, local media reported. Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, met the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature reserve near China's border with Laos. He claimed to have killed it in self-defence.
The only known wild Indochinese tiger in China, photographed in 2007 at the same reserve, has not been seen since Kang's meal, the Yunnan-based newspaper Life News reported earlier this month."
Lots more at Vision02As water vapor starts condensing on its surface, the ice particle quickly develops facets, which form into a different shaped snowflakes depending on temperature.
Mary Ellen Mark first encountered this boy and his parents in Kentucky while working on a story about rural poverty. She learned their address and later went to visit their home. ‘The parents were too shy to come out to be photographed,’ she remembers, ‘but the kids came out.’ The boy’s disheveled hair, dirty face and wary stare all suggest the poverty of his life, but the fierceness with which he clutches his kitten speaks of a determination that transcends his surroundings.
In 1967, Rhoda Kellogg published an archive of c. 8000 drawings of children ages 24-40 months. (See Kellogg, R.: Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection. Washington, DC., Microcard Editions, Inc., 1967; now available at LexisNexis, Reed Elsevier, Inc..) Up to now, as far as we know, no other archive of early graphic expressions was ever published, including a large sample of pictures and presented according to a classification system. Thus, the archive has a historical status. Read moreVia
Where would you be the safest if World War 3 broke out tomorrow? Perhaps it’s a grim subject, but safety and distance from world conflict can be a motivating factor in your choice to expatriate. At the very least, conflict around the world can weigh heavy on the soul, and it’s nice to know there are some places still left in the world where you might be left in peace.I'm living in one of them and it makes me proud to live in a place known for its peacefulness.
Via accidental mysteriesTurning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY State minimum wage). That means, if you can physically turn the crank foran 8-hour day, you can earn $57.20. If you stop turning the crank, you stop receiving money.
