“Are American women holding aviation back?” asks Amelia Earhart. This and much more can be found in Liberty Magazine (circa 1937)- now online.
by Rufus F. on April 19, 2010
“Are American women holding aviation back?” asks Amelia Earhart. This and much more can be found in Liberty Magazine (circa 1937)- now online.
Rufus is a married, 36-year old graduate student completing a dissertation in Early Modern European and Mediterranean History, who lives in Canada, studies in the US, and researches in France.
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 3 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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