BY CONNER SCHWERDTFEGER for Cinema Blend While things have never necessarily been easy for the survivors on The Walking Dead, they’re about to get a whole lot harder. When Season 6 of the hit AMC series ended for its midseason break, all of our favorite survivors had been scattered by the chaos of a walker horde, […]
A Brief History of the Wristwatch
By URI FRIEDMAN writing for The Atlantic On July 9, 1916, The New York Times puzzled over a fashion trend: Europeans were starting to wear bracelets with clocks on them. Time had migrated to the human wrist, and the development required some explaining. “Until recently,” the paper observed, “the bracelet watch has been looked upon by Americans […]
Watchmaker Breitling Inks Deal For Madison Ave. Flagship
By By Tom Zanki writing for Law360 Swiss watchmaker Breitling has agreed to lease three levels at a prime Madison Avenue retail corner just east of its current storefront, signing a 12-year deal with owner Steinberg & Pokoik, according to CBRE Inc., which said Wednesday it brokered the deal for Steinberg. The maker of chronometer watches […]
What is a caucus and how does it work?
From Foxnews.com Iowa Democratic and Republican caucuses are the most hyped presidential contests in the country but also among the most confusing. They essentially function like traditional party primaries because residents cast ballots, and the candidate with the most ballots wins. However, residents simply don’t walk into a polling site to cast their ballot, then […]
Stuck In the Muck
By Libby Copeland Washington Post Staff Writer You want to talk dirty politics? Oh, we’ll talk dirty. We’ll talk about . . . 1800! Thomas Jefferson was attacked by ministers who accused him of being an “infidel” and an “unbeliever.” A Federalist cartoon depicted him as a drunken anarchist, and the president of Yale warned […]
Hedy Lamarr: Movie star, inventor of WiFi
From the CBC News Website Hollywood is a place where folks are often recognized more for their looks than their talent – and actress Hedy Lamarr was no exception. But it’s what she invented in her spare time – to help end that war – that has history turning a kinder eye, linking her to […]
5 Reasons to Stay Honest With Your Customers
By Sam Briones (from the Principled Profit Website) For most businessman, when things start to go wrong in the business, and everything is not running the way it should be, it is almost instinctive to keep their customers in the dark. The common misconception is when you come clean with your customers, they might think of the glitches […]
Amit Singh of Google for Work: A Respectful Clash of Ideas
This interview with Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant Q. What were your early influences? A. I grew up in India. My dad was in the armed forces, and at an early age I went to a boarding school in Delhi and learned most of my leadership […]
The Science of Snowflakes, and Why No Two Are Alike
BY JULIA GRIFFIN writing for PBS News Hour Peer through a magnifying glass at a snowflake, and you’ll see an ice creation more elaborate than anything Martha Stewart could cut from folded paper. So what’s behind the snowflake’s unique and elaborate shape? The snowflakes that settle upon our sleeves and scarves during a snowstorm have […]
Major Blizzards in U.S. History
By History.com Staff From the 19th century’s “Great White Hurricane” to 1993’s “Storm of the Century,” here’s a look back at some of the worst winter storms in U.S. history. March 11-14, 1888 More than 120 winters have come and gone since the so-called “Great White Hurricane,” but this whopper of a storm still lives […]
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