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...fitting, in an ironic sense, that BBC journalist Lucy Jago chose Kristian Birkeland for the subject of her first book. Birkeland unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis, and it was the British that scoffed at Birkeland’s theories and dismissed his work in the early 1900s. The Northern Lights recounts Birkeland’s life-long journey through the still-fledgling fields of electromagnetism and solar astronomy. Jago’s book, although well-written and interesting, fails to rise to the level of “thrilling” that the publisher touts...
...York music history was preserved, rather than lost. From Tin Pan Alley in the 1800s and early 1900s to Bad Boy Records today, New York has generated quite a bit of musical history and tradition. Of course there are the obvious songs and performances: Frank Sinatra belting out "New York, New York," Billy Joel?s warmhearted "New York State of Mind," and Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five?s lyrical tourguide "New York, New York"(the lyrics to that last one: "Ah New York New York big city of dreams/ And everything in New York ain't always what...
...political contacts: Jose Antonio Garcia Contreras, an oil and auto magnate. The Gateway group met with dozens of candidates before choosing Garcia. "The real decision makers in Mexico are a relatively small group," Green says. "It is truly a club, in the same way the U.S. was during the 1900s when Morgan and Rockefeller ruled American business. They're wealthy men who went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs and are involved with politics and government." Such partners usually don't receive fees, and their salaries are modest, but if they deliver the required government approvals, they...
...Like many, but not all, landowners in the Powder River basin, Dube owns only the surface rights to his land. The mineral rights are split among the federal and state governments and other private owners in a complex title history dating back to the homesteading acts of the early 1900s. So Dube could do nothing to stop CMS Oil and Gas, which owns the mineral rights to his land, when it approached him two years ago about drilling in fields he had intended to keep clear for grazing cattle and hunting deer. The law obliged him to give the drilling...
...still enjoy Genoa's art, architecture, sweets and shopping. Start with the 12th century Cathedral of San Lorenzo and the nearby Chiesa del Gesu, which houses two paintings by Rubens. A major exhibit of paintings and manuscripts, "Travel in Italy: a Magic March from the 1500s to the 1900s," at the Palazzo Ducale through July 29, features works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Tiepolo, Titian and other greats. On Via Garibaldi, you will find both the Palazzo Bianco and the Palazzo Rosso, two museums with excellent collections of Flemish and Dutch paintings...