Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Alan J.Heeger I was born on a bitter cold morning in Sioux City (Iowa) on January 22, 1936. My early years were spent in Akron (Iowa), a small midwestern town of 1...
1996 Olympics, Atlanta The Atlanta Games were certainly the largest (a record 197 nations and areas competed) Olympics to date and perhaps the most hyped 1 and overcommercialized as well. Despite all...
Distant Contemporary :Immanuel Kant A small man , a big mind: Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophy, questioned established authorities and placed reason and freedom at the centre of his thinking .K...
Usher: Let Him Burn Usher Raymond was born October 14, 1978 and raised in Tennessee and Georgia. Usher began his singing at the age of 6 in a church choir led by his mother. After being spotted by a L...
October 26--Quit Rent Ceremony Proof that the Middle Ages was a time of boisterous 1 wit, quit rent ceremonies entail 2 the payment of symbolic or token 3 “rents” -- instead of real money -- for p...
Rome In Rome, Nero fiddled 1 , Mark Antony praised Caesar, and Charlemagne 2 was crowned. Today, you can walk in their footsteps past the masterpieces of Michelangelo, sip your cafè in the shadow of...
Time and Love Once upon a time, there was an island inhabited 1 by: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the rest of it, including Love. One day word got around that the island would sink, so all co...
The Brick About ten years ago, a young and very successful executive named Josh was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit too fast in his sleek 1 , black, 12 cylinder 2 Jagu...
A Happy Choice During the dust-blown thirties, everyone in our Oklahoma panhandle 1 community fell on hard times, but Mom made sure none of us kids knew it. We dined on gravy 2 and potatoes or corn br...
How Great Is Great Wall to a Briton “If you haven’t been to the Great Wall, you aren’t a real man,” Mao Zedong once said. Indeed, so many real men, and women, are visiting the wall that the mo...
