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...Frozen Deep was based on the disastrous Franklin Expedition, which furnishes Wanting with a secondary plot (it has three in all). Launched in 1845 under the command of Sir John Franklin, its purpose was to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Franklin's ships were fitted with the bleeding edge of English naval technology, but the Arctic swallowed them and their crews with hardly a trace. Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure...
What the stories of Franklin and Dickens have in common is the issue of wanting. Under what circumstances do men and women give in to forbidden desires - Dickens, a man starving for love, and Franklin, a man just plain starving? "We all have appetites and desires," Dickens says, "but only the savage agrees to sate them." The revelation that the stuffy Victorians had desires and acted on them isn't a particularly shocking one (nor would it have shocked an actual Victorian). But Flanagan makes the matter more interesting by posing it in the form of an insoluble dilemma: Which...
...with less than five minutes to play.Penn was threatening at the Harvard 12-yard line with 20 seconds on the clock when senior Ryan Barnes pulled down his third interception of the day—this one in the endzone to seal the victory. The win at Franklin Field set up Harvard for a shot at the Ivy title against Yale in the 125th edition of The Game.The single-digit temperatures and 30 mile-per-hour winds stalled the Crimson’s potent passing offense, as Pizzotti was just 12-for-21 for 109 yards on the afternoon.With Harvard...
...they existed in his brain. When he went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter's head. Every instrument had its role to play, and it was all prefigured." - Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records producer who worked with Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, among others, on Spector's greatness as a producer (Rolling Stone, April...
...plenty of other treasures are not on lockdown. The Archives, created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934, keep only the 1% to 3% of government documents and material considered important enough to be saved forever. Still, that adds up. The total currently includes 9 billion pages of text records, more than 20 million photographs, 7.2 million maps, charts, and architectural drawings, and more than 365,000 reels of film. Arranged side by side, the library's inventory would circle the Earth more than 57 times...