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...bunker, and were about to call an artillery strike to take it out. I look through the binoculars, and although there's an anti-aircraft gun on top, the structure is the Mound of the Ziggurat - a step pyramid reputed to be the spot where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac. The beginning of civilization, one of the oldest structures in the world. So we pleaded with them not to do it, and urged them to call the chaplain. Luckily the chaplain knew the Bible well enough, and he managed to persuade them not to destroy...
...Green's ambush comedy on Door Knock Dinners; cute Brit Jamie Oliver having dinner with his girlfriend on The Naked Chef; and Jill Cordes and Marc Silverstein doing roving-food-reporter segments on The Best Of. When someone did manage a recipe on air, it was likely to be Isaac Hayes on B. Smith with Style dousing an omelet with maple syrup. (The man who voices South Park's Chef could have at least whipped up chocolate salty balls...
Source: Fair, Isaac...
...Museum of Natural History is a 21st century update of an 18th century dream. Architect James Stewart Polshek's simple design, a metal sphere set in a mostly glass cube, is a homage to the unbuilt ball that Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. It tells of the grandeur of the universe itself, speaking in the language of both classic modernism and very high tech...
...foundations that I reject. For me the holiday will always be tied to questioning, to the evaluation of evidence, both of Santa and God, but more generally the physical world. Luckily, a figure emblematic of just this sort of material exploration has a convenient date of birth. Sir Isaac Newton was born on December...