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...Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and many other islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles. But less than 30 years after Columbus' three ocean-crossing ships dropped anchor off the island of Hispaniola, the Taino would be destroyed by Spanish weaponry, forced labor and European diseases. Unlike their distant cousins, the Inca, Aztecs and Maya, the Taino left no pyramids or temples--no obvious signs that they had ever existed. Just about all that remains of their culture is the handful of Taino words that survive in modern English, including barbecue, canoe, hammock, hurricane and tobacco...
...between shepherds, court records from civil cases, stone weights, beaded jewelry, ritual objects and a heck of a lot of broken plates. It's a neat display. The work that went into it is impressive. It's exciting to know that we can learn such things about lives so distant from our own. But if you're looking for the lessons of history, the Semitic Museum's message might not be one you'd expect...
...distant advisor, so that's neat," Shetty said...
...Idiot's Guide series, published by Macmillan, is still a distant second. But sales are expected to reach $28 million this year, more than double the figure for 1997. Its topics are more creative, from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating the Blues to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic. For presidential-scandal lovers, Macmillan has commissioned a bankruptcy lawyer to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Starr Report. Author Steven D. Strauss says the book, which he is finishing up, will "explain a lot, like what impeachment means...
...brought upon by the confluence of large crowd in the middle of a large city sprung to reality. People grumbled that the location was horrible, the metallic stage looked suddenly gaudy and the exodus of the sweaty masses to the T squeezed the exhilaration of the afternoon into a distant, if pleasant, memory. Yet it was in the midst of this assembly of humanity at its most human that art at its most transcendent was given life. The touching imperfection of the spectacle somehow subsided in the presence of the great symphony whose unaffected beauty had never rung truer...