The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a dead wake.
The war began with the geopolitical equivalent of a brush fire.
To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate suc...
Wilson was outraged but chose not to see the declaration itself as sufficient justification for war. What he did not yet know was that there was a second, very secret message appended to the telegram...
Banquet of glimpses—
Become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated
Most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
Most sailors still held the belief that there was no point in knowing how to swim, since it would only prolong your suffering. Turner
Our growing conviction that no thoroughly honorable business-man who is this side of dotage ever advertises for a lady stenographer who is a blonde, is good-looking, is quite alone in the city, or wil...
She suppressed a revolt led by the board’s executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed women.
The station.
Britain had more than twice as many submarines as Germany but used them mainly for coastal defense, not to stop merchant ships.)
A gyroscope kept the torpedo on course, adjusting for vertical and horizontal deflection. The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturba...
As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.
Asked later how this feat had been achieved, Morton answered, If you had to jump six or seven feet, or certainly drown, it is surprising what ‘a hell of a long way’ even older people can jump.
Belief in such things was widespread in America and Britain at the start of the twentieth century, when an Ouija board was a regular fixture in drawing rooms, to be brought out after dinner for improm...
Franke writes, We do know that Holmes advertised his ‘hotel’ as a suitable lodging for visitors to the world’s fair; that no fewer than fifty persons, reported to the police as missing, were traced to...
He came from plebeian roots and had failed to distinguish himself in any way, not in war, not in work, not in art, though in this last domain he believed himself to have great talent. He was said to b...
He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.
I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witnessed firsthand the gathering dark of Hitler’s rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, and smell, and how d...
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