![]() Looking forward to putting ink to paper tomorrow.” I force a quick smile onto my face for the team’s power forward, Rashid. “Bentley!” One of my new teammates falls onto the leather banquet of the VIP section beside me, throwing an arm around my shoulders. Dallas, New York, Minnesota, Los Angeles. These places are exactly the same, no matter what the city. I massage the bridge of my nose, attempting to get rid of the pounding in my head, the overwhelming mixture of cologne and perfume making me nauseous. If my skill spoke for itself, I would be home right now instead of this dark, noisy establishment, a row of untouched drinks in front of me. ![]() Unfortunately, a lot of that faith is earned off the hardwood. I have to put in the time with them, show my face, earn the kind of trust that will translate to the basketball court. These are new teammates, a new city, and I’m signing a contract tomorrow that will make me their point guard. Most of the time, I can get away with an excuse or flat out tell my teammates to fuck off, but this is different. I can name a hundred places I would rather be right now than a nightclub. If he wants a championship, he’ll give me Greta first. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father is my new coach, but that’s not going to stop me, either. Unfortunately, my future wife is as stubborn as she is beautiful and if I want her forever, I’ll have to get creative. Considering I have plans to make her my wife, I have a serious objection to that rule. Greta Welding does not date basketball players. ![]()
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![]() To be sure, this was not globalization in our current sense of the word. No one has found such an item – yet! – but archaeology could still surprise us. ![]() ![]() Even in those early encounters, the lure of a new product – red cloth – cast a mesmerizing spell on consumers, just as excited purchasers today clamor for the latest Nike sneakers.įor the first time in history, an object or message could travel all the way around the world. As supplies began to run out, the Norse cut shorter and shorter pieces, some no “wider than a finger’s width.” Still the locals offered full pelts for the scraps. ![]() When the locals exchanged furs for wool cloth the Vikings had dyed red, they tied the lengths of red wool around their heads. Regional networks joined together to tie a loop around the globe.Īs the Icelandic sagas inform us, trading began almost immediately with a premium placed on novel goods. As new pathways opened on continents, merchants, goods, technologies and religions moved around the globe for the first time. The Norse voyages linked existing pathways across North and South America with those across Afro-Eurasia. That is when, as incontrovertible archeological evidence shows, the Vikings left their home region of Scandinavia, crossed the North Atlantic and landed in northeastern Canada. Globalization started much earlier than you might expect – in AD 1000. ![]() ![]() Considering there were still animated sequences and musical numbers, it's predictable what her opinion would be. With all her objections, Mary Poppins fans can't help but wonder what Travers would have thought about the sequel Mary Poppins Returns and Blunt's take on the classic character. Travers also wasn't fond of the musical theme for the film. She largely opposed the animation sequences and was incredibly upset when she learned the penguins wouldn't be live-action but animated. ![]() Travers believed the film Mary Poppins was too nice, unlike the one featured in the books. While many found Van Dyke's Cockney accent embarrassing, this wasn't the source of Travers' tears. With photographs from the motion picture and Illustrations by Betty Fraser and Craig Pineo. Travers, Travers cried of "embarrassment" at a premiere she wasn't initially invited to for a film her name only briefly appeared in during the credits. Travers did weep, but it was for an entirely different reason.Īccording to Valerie Lawson's biography Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P.L. At the premiere of Mary Poppins, Travers was shown crying in relief at the finished product in the biographical film. When the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and. Banks gave some insight into the author's life but managed to get some details wrong. Mary Poppins The original best-loved classic about the worlds most famous nanny Mary Poppins. It's hard to comprehend how the heart-warming film could be criticized, but its nature was exactly why Travers was disappointed in the film adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() ![]() Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” -NPR Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope. ![]() “A classic that we will read for years to come.” - Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club permeated with light, wit, youth.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club PickĪ New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() Her burgeoning sexuality and desire for new experiences outside of the insular world of her family’s obsession with respectability and gentility drive her into Romeo’s arms, and lead her to take serious emotional and physical risks in pursuit of a life with him. Juliet is, throughout the play, torn between her perceived duty to her family and her love for Romeo. ![]() She suggests that they get married if Romeo truly loves her, and Romeo accepts this proposal-in spite of (or perhaps because of) the feud between their houses. Even after she learns Romeo’s true identity, she continues pining for him, and when she realizes that he feels the same way, she demands he swear his love to her or leave her alone forever. But when she meets Romeo, whom she does not realize is a member of House Montague, her family’s enemy, she is struck by desire. Juliet is reluctant to start thinking about love, and frequently clashes with her overbearing parents as they try to arrange a socially and monetarily fortuitous match for her. ![]() ![]() At only 13, Juliet finds herself pulled from the cocoon of childhood when her mother, Lady Capulet, informs her that she’s of marriageable age and that the wealthy, handsome count Paris has set his sights on her. She is the female heir to the dynasty of House Capulet, which is in a long-standing feud with House Montague. One of the protagonists of the play, along with Romeo. ![]() ![]() But for most of us, the clock keeps ticking away the hours, days, and years, and we find ourselves no closer to the dream that, like a mirage, recedes from our grasp the closer we get to it. After all, isn’t that what every one of us wants-a life filled with purpose and meaning?Īs we look to the future, we trust and hope and pray that one day we’ll be able to live the kind of life that we dream of. They long to align their life’s purpose with what they do every single day. Many millions of people anxiously look forward to the day when they can stop worrying about paying their mortgages, whittling down their credit card debt, and working in jobs they can’t stand. So wrote Henry David Thoreau in his classic book Walden. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Rooks chronicles the adventures on this ship and its crew in a brilliant, lively narrative of the history of Britain’s suppression efforts. ![]() Over the next five years, the ship’s diverse crew and dedicated commanders would capture more ships and liberate more enslaved people than any other in the Squadron. Sailing after the spectacular fall of Napoleon in France, yet before the rise of Queen Victoria’s England, Black Joke was first a slaving vessel itself, and one with a lightning-fast reputation only a lucky capture in 1827 allowed it to be repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. The most feared ship in Britain’s West Africa Squadron, His Majesty’s brig Black Joke was one of a handful of ships tasked with patrolling the western coast of Africa in an effort to end hundreds of years of global slave trading. A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. ![]() ![]() Oda’s artwork really shines here, particularly in terms of perspective. Stretching and splitting makes for a lot of dodging, making for a frantic fight sequence that covers a lot of ground. Buggy literally cuts loose, converting his lower half into a semi-human buzz saw. It’s actually a pretty interesting fight, thanks to Oda’s creative use of their respective powers. Buggy, two devil fruit empowered clowns duke it out. And he’ll have to face the Dread Captain Usopp, who claims to be a notorious pirate captain…but frankly, Usopp says a lot of things… He’ll have to find a map to the Grand Line, the sea route where the toughest pirates sail. ![]() If he wants to prove himself on the high seas, Luffy will have to defeat the weird pirate lord Buggy the Clown. Now he’s got a crew–sort of–in the form of swordsman Roronoa Zolo and treasure-hunting thief Nami. ![]() Luffy first set out to sea in a leaky rowboat, he had no idea what might lie over the horizon. Sure, lots of people say they want to be the King of the Pirates, but how many have the guts to do what it takes? When Monkey D. ![]() ![]() "But it's a line that he's peddling to those who want to believe it in the Russian state media, many of whom do believe it. "They've even said that the West created Nazis," he added, calling it a "grotesque perversion of and distortion of history". "His story is that Russia is continuing the good work of the Second World War and he and his propagandists have been saying for some time now that effectively the Second World War was Russia against the rest, was against the West. ![]() ![]() Speaking to Kay Burley, he said it was the same storyline Vladimir Putin has been "peddling throughout this war" that "Russia is being attacked by Russophobic Western elites" seeking to cancel the outcome of World War Two and destabilise world order. "Well it was short, wasn't it? But it was classic Putin," Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn says after the Russian president ends his speech. ![]() |