![]() ![]() He was abandoned by his father at 10 and lost his mother at 12. He was born illegitimate, then an almost insurmountable social disgrace, in or around 1755 in the Caribbean. This tells you something about Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is short and intense and intellectually competitive (no Dan Brown for him) and it also tells you something about Alexander Hamilton, whose life was not the stuff of the average academic doorstopper.Īlexander Hamilton is crucial to the history of the United States of America, yet, despite appearing on the $US10 note, he is (or was, before his eponymous musical) often described as “the forgotten Founding Father”. ![]() For some light holiday reading, he took along a 700-page historical biography called Alexander Hamilton. In the American summer of 2008, seven years before the Broadway premiere of his musical juggernaut Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda went to Mexico. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]()
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![]() Four thousand entries consider, in intriguing detail, the stories behind over five thousand place names: how they were discovered, who named them and why, and what the names reveal. It is also a monumental work, twice the size of Walbran's and including more than three times as many places. Like its progenitor, Raincoast Place Names is much more than simply a catalogue of name origins because it tells the often fascinating stories behind the names and in so doing serves as a history of the region in capsule form. ![]() Harbour Publishing celebrates the hundredth anniversary of that landmark work by presenting the first book to update Walbran's classic, Andrew Scott's Raincoast Place Names. Walbran published one of the most beloved and enduring of all BC books, British Columbia Coast Names. Winner of the 2009 Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2010 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize ![]() ![]() In 1966, Meir retired from politics due to health problems but soon reemerged to help form a coalition government from the Mapai, Achdut HaAvodah, and Rafi parties, known as the Israel Labor Party. She then went on to serve as the Minister of Labour (1949-56) and Foreign Minister (1956-66). Following World War II, Meir was a signatory on the Israel Independence Declaration in 1948. Four years later, Meir became the secretary of the Women’s Labor Council and in 1934 joined the executive council of the Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor). ![]() ![]() Here she joined Kibbutz Merhavia, a communal settlement, until 1924, when she moved to Jerusalem with her family. During this time, Meir became a leader of the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party.Įager to participate more fully for the cause, Meir and her husband Morris Meyerson set out for Palestine in 1921, which at the time was under British civil administration and would remain so until 1948. ![]() Valedictorian of her class at Fourth Street, Meir went on to attend North Division High School and then Wisconsin State Normal School. There, the family opened a grocery store, which Meir helped run while attending the Fourth Street School (now named Golda Meir School). Shortly thereafter, the family emigrated to Milwaukee. Indeed, in 1903 her family moved to Pinsk to escape the threat of Russian pogroms. ![]() Born Golda Mabowitz on in Kiev, the future Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, faced anti-Semitism from an early age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The outstretched hand of the corpse within tries to pull Borg inside. One of its wheels gets caught up on a lamppost and a coffin falls out. He sees a clock with no hands and an old hearse approaching. Borg arrives at a house with boarded up windows in the old quarter of Stockholm. The film opens with a dream sequence that has been stolen from ever since. Despite his benevolent exterior, to which everyone pays tribute, he recognises in himself something arid and distant. On the 400-mile car journey the old man remembers his past - the girl he loved who married his brother instead, and his own bitterly unsuccessful marriage. At its centre is 76-year-old Professor Isak Borg, a distinguished medical scientist who travels from Stockholm to Lund with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary doctorate. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was glorifying the shabby a way to market the trappings of rural poverty? When is a distressed table a social statement against throw-away culture, and when is it simply a piece making do? Does shabby chic empower those who can't afford new furniture, or is it an aesthetic elevated by boutique culture? Word on the street is that it began in the 80s as a response to the rising exclusivity in the middle class, with polished brass and sleek marble. ![]() This brought my brain swinging to the eco-chic, thrift-inspired end of the spectrum. Some are very much marks of privilege, and while we greatly respect Marie Kondo, the reality was that people in insecure financial situations save things not necessarily because they spark joy, but because they might be needed later. After a really interesting conversation about Marie Kondo and how her philosophies translate to American life, my friend and I began questioning other interior design and lifestyle trends. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Six years ago, Henrie O's beloved newspaperman husband Richard lost his life on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. But this time a killer has struck perilously close to Henrie O's heart. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ī courageous Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter with an unparalleled talent for deduction, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins has unraveled some murderous mysteries in the latter years of her long, event-filled life. Because the deaths did no begin or end with Richard Collins.and someone's dark and enduring homicidal passions have yet to be fully satisfied. But now that her search for the truth has brought Henrie O to this lethal paradise where giant palm fronds hide evil deeds from inquisitive eyes, she may never be allowed to leave alive. Following cryptic clues and her infallible instincts to a lush and verdant tropical Eden-andto the lavish mountaintop estate of wealthy matriarch Belle Ericcson, where Richard spent his final days-the determined sexagenarian sleuth becoems privy to terrible allegations of greed and jealousy, adultery and abuse.and of a mystery surrounding the kidnap-slaying of Belle's eldes child CeeCee. Now, on a brisk March morning, a chilling message has arrived by Priority Mail claiming Richard's fatal fall from a towering island cliff was no accident-it was murder. ![]() ![]() Reflections on Heidegger’s Saying: “The way what is questioned essentially engages our questioning belongs to the innermost meaning of the question of being” by George Vassilacopoulos 11. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line and the Question of Heideggerian Cinema by Robert Sinnerbrink 10. ![]() Moods That Matter: Heidegger, Affect and Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Peter Williams 9. 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Just as leaves of lettuce on the ground outside, The floor’s enamel, still there from the last timeĬeases from being an eyesore after you get used to it, Of a Hindu temple planted in a Malaysian jungle Of the craft market where its animal masksĪnd abstract paintings give it the bearings The smell of coco and straw fill the isles Ringing from surrounding rum shops sound likeĬhurch bells to those who worship the spirits. Trying to sell their mastery to a mass of black folk. In the exaggerated voices of politicians, Holds all in its vicinity back in time with it.Įchoes of slave auctions can still be heard ![]() Its clock, stuck in the seventeenth century Hazel Simmons McDonald, Saint Lucia/BarbadosĪrt work by Kate Spencer Walwyn, St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every week beginning May 26th, 2015, we'll be releasing one unique, never-before-published novella! Each novella will feature our favorite creature of the deep: mermaids. *** All summer long, join the authors of the "Falling in Deep Collection" for unique tales of creatures from the deep! From mermaids to sirens, Miami to Athens, dark paranormal romance to contemporary stories with steam to folktales, the fifteen award-winning and best-selling authors of the "Falling in Deep Collection" are bringing you mermaid tales like you've never seen before. ![]() In order to survive, she has to learn how to be one, too. Tara may have always wanted to be a mermaid, but now it's sink or swim. Yet when she returns to the sea to seek out Finn and reverse her transformation, she finds herself in the middle of an impending war between the land and sea. Suddenly, what she thought was a dream turns out to be a nightmare - she's turning into a mermaid herself. Everything's great until she meets a gorgeous real-life merman named Finn. So she takes a year off between high school and college to don a fake tail and tour aquariums across the country in a professional mermaid troupe. All Tara ever wanted was to be a mermaid. ![]() |