Modern Olympic Games Review: 1984 Olympics, Los Angeles The summer Games returned to the United States for the first time since the Second World War and to Los Angeles for the second time. Its first e...
“Detective Poirot” Takes His Final Bow Sir Peter Ustinov, a brilliant wit and mimic who won two Oscars for an acting career that ranged from the evil Nero in Quo Vadis to the detective Poirot in D...
Great Wall of China The Great Wall is the most time consuming, material consuming, and labor intensive construction project in human history. It is the ultimate human construction. Like a massive slee...
British Annual Holidays Once a year most English families take an extended holiday. Until air travel became more common these family holidays were almost always spent in one of the coastal seaside res...
July 4-- Whalton Baal 1 Fire This annual rite 2 in the Northumbrian village of Whalton takes its name from either the Celtic 3 word bel, meaning “bright,” the Anglo-Saxon 4 bail, meaning “ fire,”...
If There’s a Will I am my mother’s third child, born when she was 20. When I was delivered, nurses took me from the room before she could see me. Her doctor gently explained that my left arm was m...
Words f rom the Heart Most people need to hear those “three little words”---I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time. I met Connie the day she was admitted to the hospice 1 ward, w...
Winners Are Made, Not Born Chef 1 Walter Potenza owns three thriving Italian restaurants in Rhode Island 2 . He studied and trained to be a chef, but he sees now that his abilities are the product of...
Being Yourself As a youngster, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday afternoons at my grandfather’s farm in western Pennsylvania. Surrounded by miles of winding stone walls, the house and bar...
Express Yourself Effectively E Huiyuan: Speech is actually a form of conveying information. Considering that people today have various ways to get necessary information, why is public speaking still w...
