Fifth Annual Global Partnership Winners Announced
The Fifth Annual VT KnowledgeWorks Global Partnership Week held on August 17-23, 2014, provided a unique opportunity for student teams and faculty from all over the world to collaborate and initiate their personal global networks through learning, socialization, and friendly competition in Blacksbur ...
Some Raglan highlights
Clearly I won't get to a day by day diary of the event. Better to start with highlights. Travel to site without the Vitus household and Vitus-wagon made for a very long day. Up early, cab to Casa de Vitus in extreme S London (enjoying a lecture on African cultures and the evils of colonialism from t ...
DAGENS KJOLE-EDWARDIAN ANTIQUE!!
Denne kjolen er en av mine favoritter i samlingen min .Jeg klarte ikke helt å få fram alle detaljene på den men ville vise dere den forde !! Selgeren som jeg kjøpte den av sa at det fulgte med en frakk til denne og at det sto på 'M Markes' 3rd March, 1906 på insiden. Hun tror familien heter Henfield ...
JOHN GUILLERMIN: TOP FILMS
01) THE TOWERING INFERNO 1974 USA CANON: 3,2953 # 5056 # 57 year RATING ANGUS: 1,5/5 STEVE McQUEEN PAUL NEWMAN WILLIAM HOLDEN FAYE DUNAWAY FRED ASTARI SUSAN BLAKELY JENNIFER JONES 02) TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE 1959 USA CANON: 3,0800 # 7637 # 81 year GORDON SCOTT ANTHONY QUAYLE SARA SHANE NIALL MAC ...
What can Balotelli bring to Liverpool?
A wonder boy, bad boy or Superstar? There are many views on Mario Balotelli, and now the Italian is on his way to Liverpool as a replacement for Luis Suarez. According Skysports, Balotelli will arrive in Liverpool today for a medical, but the transfer is not set to go through in time for Liverpools ...
Dags för avspark i La Liga!
En vecka efter premiären i England är det dags för den spanska ligan att dra igång. Förra säsongen stod Atletico Madrid sensationellt som segrare efter 38 omgångar. Kan de göra om det? Tveksamt, men Diego Simeones gäng kommer vara med ända in i kaklet även den kommande säsongen. Spanska ligan var tv ...
Manhattan Fantasy - 1927, That Fabulous Year
(Part 1) My friend, Edward John Paul Buckley, was a good-egg. Distantly related to the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - the House of Windsor in England since the Great War - Buck was named in honor Edward, Prince of Wales, and U.S. Revolutionary War naval hero, John Paul Jones, to whom he sai ...
Fear and Loathing at DEFCON 22
Nothing says “Welcome to Vegas” like a massive turbulence on a plane full of drunk people who, instead of holding on to their seats, frantically laugh and shout “we’re all going to die!” At 105 Fahrenheit outside, the heat was getting into everyone’s head. After a bumpy touchdown, the in-flight ente ...
THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE – Jonathan Stroud
I don’t know what took me so long to read this book (other than I’m really backed up with Advanced Reading Copies), but now that I’ve read it, I can’t wait to dig in to book number two (which just recently appeared in my ARC queue). Author Jonathan Stroud has created an alternate England that is so ...
A Spell for Crime Detection: Jane Austen Style
If a crime’s committed during the Regency, who you gonna call? In the early 1800s, Bow Street runners were as familiar as Ghostbusters(1) are now. This was a time before Scotland Yard(2) (created in 1829) and before being a constable was a full-time, paid position. It was an intriguing period in his ...
India ODI Team Won't Be Scarred by Failures in England Test Series
Toward the end of his post-match chat with Sky Sports' Michael Atherton at the end of the fifth Test at the Oval, which India lost by an innings and 244 runs, one question brought out an instant smile on Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s face.
England vs India 2014: Can the upcoming ODI series resurrect the Indian team?
MS Dhoni will want to draw inspiration from the Champions Trophy triumph last year On at least three occasions, I began a detailed post-mortem of India’s Test misadventure in England 2014, which started off as a bike ride with a deflated tire, then hit a ...
