Word: telegraphe
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Samuel Morse had perfected his telegraph only a few years earlier, but by 1848 the country was wired, from Boston to New York City to Washington to Chicago and New Orleans. Again, the shift was sudden and profound--from days or weeks to send a message to instantaneous communication. Today we take for granted synchronized one-hour time zones as a kind of natural fact, but only after trains and the telegraph had connected distant cities were the U.S.'s time zones reduced from dozens to four...
...From Vanity Fair, Clark worked her way up in the industry, landing jobs at publishing houses such as Simon & Schuster and writing for periodicals such as New York Magazine. Her latest job was at ReganBooks, working for Judith Regan, once hailed by the Daily Telegraph as “the angriest woman in the media” and who recently made headlines after being fired following her attempt to publish O.J. Simpson’s book...
...Barrington-Coupe has flatly denied plagiarism accusations, telling the Daily Telegraph newspaper that his wife "was the the sole pianist on those recordings." Inverne says the disputed recordings are "great piano playing," but, he adds, they are "just not Hatto...
...David Cameron: I wrote an article in The Telegraph to answer some of my critics, take them on, correct some of their impressions. I was finding it rather infuriating some of the things people were saying and getting wrong. To me, Mrs Thatcher, it's all a long time in the past. People are voting at the next election who were born after Mrs. Thatcher left office. It's an important thought. So I'm not trying to be the heir to anybody in particular. I'm just trying to do the job. But there are some important things...
...Newham College during the late ’60s. It was there that she participated in her most memorable form of protest, when in 1967 she jumped on Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s car to demonstrate against the Vietnam War, as she recounted to The Daily Telegraph...