Word: flora
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...DIED. FLORA LEWIS, 79, journalist and author; in Paris. Lewis covered pivotal world events, from the Hungarian uprising in 1956 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, for the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune and the New York Times...
Since then Stanford has secured $400 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that will primarily build the arts and humanities departments...
Suddenly there was a knock on Jimmy Carter's suite at his hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, interrupting his scheduled interview with Flora Lewis of the New York Times. It was a member of Fidel Castro's entourage telling Carter's advisor, Robert Pastor, that the Cuban dictator was even then walking down from his suite three floors up en route to meet the former U.S. President. For months Carter had been trying to arrange a secret meeting with Castro: they eventually decided that the occasion of Carlos Andres Perez's inauguration as President of Venezuela in late February 1989 would...
Simonetta Vespucci, the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, died of tuberculosis at 23, but it is said Botticelli used her lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like...
...distant past, memes were largely confined to their localized niches determined by the geographical location of their hosts, and the local memetic flora and fauna (read: culture). But in the last 200 years, we have fully opened the global communication routes linking the developed world, and many previously balkanized memetic environments have merged into one global marketplace of ideas. A full-on war for the space in the human brain is commencing, with capitalism, democracy and liberalism out in front...