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Twenty years ago, when the British made the extraordinary first conquest of Mount Everest, it seemed like one of the last great adventures left...
...opening weeks, films from the '30s will feature clips of Hitler addressing his countrymen. Vintage radio sets play actual news broadcasts; H.V. Kaltenborn's reports from London crackle from a 1939 RCA portable. Similarly, major television news stories are rebroadcast, ranging in time from celebrations of the conquest of Japan to the conquest of the moon. Once each day, a duplicate of the compact Apollo 11 TV camera will be demonstrated, allowing visitors to view themselves on the same video monitors that picked up Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon...
...course the ACSR is meaningless. Harvard's role in society has not changed. For example, Harvard willingly pockets its annual many millions from the oil companies that continue the conquest of North America (from the Eskimos, now) and the rest of the world...
...correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest. For these reasons, Marinatos is convinced that the frieze is "the most valuable historical document that we have obtained so far from the Bronze...
...state of disarray to be almost permanently endearing. The same smile which brought us drinks with a charm that consistently mixed up recipient and drink, eased her out of ugly confrontations with hard core drunks. She contrasted with Wheels' essential inaccessibility. The stuff dreams are made of. An imagined conquest. We talked to The Farmer's Daughter. She talked back...