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...that was the end of the end of "Survivor II: The Outback," the Outback part of which was, as Colby said in his best Cosell imitation, "the 17th player." The sequel to the Richard Hatch Show was a lean, mean, elementally compelling show - wrapped in a coating of ridiculous fluff, and trying...
When I was 12, I wanted to give blood. Unfortunately, I quickly found out that I had to wait until my 17th birthday. I couldn’t wait. It was not so much that I thought my blood would save somebody else, though I did take that into consideration. It was more of the hero-allure: I wouldn’t need to rest after giving blood, I wouldn’t faint, it wouldn’t hurt me. I would be strong...
...back, stroll along the waterfront past the 17th century house where Lord Byron in 1816 wrote The Prisoner of Chillon, a poem commemorating the imprisonment in 1530 of François de Bonnivard, prior of the Abbey of St. Victor. The 13th century Chillon Castle is at the lake's eastern end, a pleasant 90-minute steamboat trip from Ouchy. The boats leave from the central dock, but the schedule is seasonal so when there call 0848-811-848 for information...
...energizing effect. Japanese curiosity in the outside world, the willingness to learn and the anxiety not to be left behind explain to some degree why Japan has been the most prosperous, most technologically advanced Asian nation for at least 300 years. The period of so-called isolation between the 17th and 19th centuries was no exception. Travel to and information from abroad were indeed restricted, but members of the Japanese Elite were still better informed about the outside world than their more complacent counterparts in China. Unlike the mandarins in Beijing, Japanese officials, including the shoguns, almost never assumed that...
...fact, while much of the Shakespeare cult of modern times can be seen as a relatively recent historical phenomena, the overwhelming reverence paid to Hamlet extends as far back as the late 17th century. While English dramatists of the Restoration were adapting Shakespeare’s plays left and right, altering them to fit the popular penchant for love triumphant and a happy ending, Hamlet remained untouched. Even King Lear got a makeover in the form of a glorious marriage between Edgar and the distinctly not-dead Cordelia. But the thwarted love, the suicides and the excessive carnage of Hamlet...