A structure or art object is restored to preserve its historical and artistic meaning (more specifically, to bring back its original appearance). A major aspect of the preservation of historical and cultural treasures, restoration has great importance for both general history and the history of art...
The lake is located inside the Gale Crater and is thought to have covered an area that is 31 miles long and three miles wide for more than 100,000 years. According to a paper published yesterday in Science Magazine:“The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are in...
a. Speech or writing empty of meaning; verbiage: His remarks on the subject are nothing but wind. b. Vain self-importance; pomposity: an expert who was full of wind even before becoming famous. tr.v. wind·ed, wind·ing, winds 1. To expose to free movement of air; ventilate or ...
After all, as a Dreamer attending college within a city that’s got a Joe Arpaio-like police chief and a general hostility toward undocumented people among the general white population, Estella has no idea what Trump’s DACA cancellation might mean to her if she talks to law enforcement. So...
The man of business and the surgeon repeated their visits oftener than once in company, and they always found the father the same, though by no means rash in extending either his friendship, or the circle of his acquaintances, it even seemed as if he had begun to entertain a very ...
history and the confusion of everyday being that both interrogates my own existence and allows me distance to watch someone else doing the hard work of wandering along, struggling with love and rejection, meaning and time. Or I think of Shrikanth Reddy’sFacts for Visitorsand now-native Georgi...
ridges to camp. The inclination of the glacier is quite moderate at the head, and, as the sun had softened the _neve_, I made safe and rapid progress, running and sliding, and keeping up a sharp outlook for crevasses. About half a mile from the head, there is an ice-cascade, ...
It Would Be So Nice and others… Since it started with the first single, the movie had to end with the last one as well. Storm Thorgerson's visual rendition of the coke-euphoric-bring-on-the-digital-sound-effectsLearning to Flyfrom thewelcome to the drum machinealbumA Momentary Lapse of...
But scarce enough to serve them for a luncheon— Then there was rum, eight gallons in a puncheon. The other boats, the yawl and pinnace, had Been stove in the beginning of the gale; And the long-boat's condition was but bad, As there were but two blankets for a sail, ...
The domestic presence of Lucy had begun to produce a remarkable effect upon Pierre. Sometimes, to the covertly watchful eye of Isabel, he would seem to look upon Lucy with an expression illy befitting their singular and so-supposed merely cousinly relation; and yet again, with another ...