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By the time Enrico Fermi jokingly took bets on whether the 1945 Trinity test would destroy all life, physicists already knew of the impossibility of setting the atmosphere on fire, according to a 1991 interview
New Book Details How WOXY-FM Bucked the Norms of the Day While Cultivating Community Besides being a remembrance and celebration of WOXY’s history, the book also is something more. It’s a thesis, in a way, that in its ownership, programming and outreach, the station was a role model for how to ethically seek independence in … Read more
Polyglot Bibles Polyglot Bibles had existed since at least the third century, but none could compare with the four “great” polyglot Bibles of the early modern peiod: the Complutensian (Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 1514-1517), Antwerp (1569-1572), Paris (1628-1645), and London (1654-1657) polyglots. These editions – all of them printed in large, folio-sized editions numbering between … Read more
Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice. The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than £10m (US$12.3m, A$18.4m), with millions dedicated specifically to descendant … Read more
Longchamps Restaurants – Vanished New York City Art Deco . In 1930’s Manhattan a chain of long forgotten restaurants brought café society elegance to the middle class. It all began when wholesaler Henry Lustig opened his first restaurant in 1919 at Madison Avenue and 78th Street. Being a race horse owner, Lustig decided to name … Read more