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For at least the past five years, a few men have made their home under a bridge behind the FCC headquarters building in Washington, DC. They made bed platforms using packing crates and stacked newspapers. One of the guys organized his stuff neatly and made his bed tight, military-style. On a record-cold winter day, with … Continue reading home enclosure and eviction
More than half the libraries existing in the U.S. in 1919 had received construction grant money from Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born U.S. industrialist who acquired massive wealth. He believed in self-improvement through hard work, and he considered public libraries to serve this purpose by making knowledge available to everyone. Hence Carnegie set … Continue reading Carnegie library stimulus program
Francis Galbiati died on April 21, 2009. Galbiati was born in a house on Italia Avenue in Vineland, and he died last week in the backyard of a house he built on Italia Avenue. In between, he created Eastlyn Golf Course – also on Italia Avenue, within sight of that backyard. His wife, Margaret, says … Continue reading make your own golf course
An image of women in rich, classical dress singing by candlelight from sheets of music was featured on the cover of the Thomas A. Edison, Inc.’ 1915 catalog for Edison Diamond Disc Phonographs. The cover has a gold decorative pattern like that of a lavish Persian manuscript. The mechanical reproduction of music thus made a … Continue reading mechanical reproduction of music
In her interesting book, The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, Esther Sternberg describes how the brain’s hormonal stress response balances susceptibility to inflammatory and infectious diseases. Stress stimulates hormones that repress immune cell functions that cause inflammation. Hence a rat strain that reacts more to stress is less susceptible to a … Continue reading balances in stress responses