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...England lept into modern sanitation when Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I, published Metamorphosis of Ajax, in which he described a new kind of water closet: a raised cistern with a small pipe down which water ran when released by a valve. The Queen installed Harrington's invention in her palace at Richmond, but it took another 200 years before a man named Alexander Cummings developed the S-shaped pipe underneath the basin to keep out foul odors. At the end of the 18th century, the flushable toilet went mainstream...
...Western ski areas, while lodging rates dropped 8%. Vail Resorts, a public company that runs four ski areas in Colorado and one in California, reported a 5.8% drop in skier visits through early January and a 7.5% decline in lift-ticket revenue. The Aspen Skiing Company, which operates the Ajax Mountain, Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass ski areas, predicts skier visits will drop between 5% and 15% this year. (See the top 10 sports moments...
...question as old as warfare. With the assistance of arward-winning playwright Ellen McLaughlin, students at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre have been tackling this question, drawing on extensive field research and the themes surrounding war since the ancient Greeks. “Ajax in Iraq,” McLaughlin’s new original play being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre this weekend, is the culmination of their studies, exploring the post-traumatic stress associated with the hardships accounted in war. The group has been working on the production for over...
...diet was right. "She was a good cook," Beijering says, "and would take the time and effort to prepare healthy meals. She's very partial to the traditional Dutch raw herring." Her other great passions in life are soccer - she's an ardent fan of the Amsterdam club Ajax - and royalty. She says one of the highlights of her life came in 2001, when she was invited to tea with Queen Beatrix. "I considered it a great honor," Van Andel-Schipper told the Courant. "She was really nice. I let her ask the questions. I thought that would be best...
...enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach--like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector--it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This is The Iliad as a WWE SmackDown: violent fights, snappy insults and a connoisseur's idolatry of beautiful brawn. (Who knew Greece had so many...