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From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

Welcome to The Devil's Dinner Hour! Your bi-weekly source for everything Victorian and strange. I'm Evelyn James and I'll be your guide down the dark alleyways and moonlit moors of Victorian, England.

At a time when the world waits anxiously to see what will happen next in Zimbabwe - when there is little food in the country's shops, life expectancy is plunging and Zimbabweans are fleeing repression and unemployment - this book gets to grips with the man at the helm of a corrupt regime; the man behind the monster. Holland's tireless investigation begins with her having dinner with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ends in a searching interview with Zimbabwe's president in December 2007, more than 30 years later.

Chiyo Matsutani is a young college student in San Francisco and Hiro Fujimoto has nearly paid off the loan on his Sacramento farm. Both are American citizens when they’re rounded up in 1942 and sent to an incarceration camp where they meet, fall in love, and marry. But when they’re released three years later, Hiro’s farm - like the property of so many Japanese Americans - has been seized. They take the only jobs available to them, as housekeeper and gardener for a wealthy family in Oakland where they face casual racism, harassment, and an unending future of dreary servitude. Based on a ...

The People's Dinner Party is hosted by Suncere Ali Shakur. Suncere interviews longtime activists and revolutionaries while sharing food and drink discussing mutual aid, revolutionary ideas, solidarity, and community.

Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger. A bitter political rivalry between two men who had once been allies, and two surging issues that inflamed the nation, led to grim talk of breaking up the Republic. Then, a single great evening, arguably the most important dinner party in American history, achieved the compromises that led to America's mighty expansion.

Ein Gesprächspodcast mit Kulturschaffenden unterschiedlichster Couleur beim 3-Gänge-Menü. Ob Schauspieler, Regisseure, Musiker, Veranstaltungstechniker, Tänzer, Choreografen - alle haben die unterschiedlichsten Erlebnisse - vor- auf- und hinter der Bühne - und plaudern aus dem Nähkästchen.

This book explores some of the prevailing attitudes and ideas held by Maimonides, or the Rambam, i.e., Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, and Benedictus (Baruch) Spinoza on the subject of knowing God. A hypothetical dialogue between these two philosophers and I is presented.

Two friends casually discuss history while weaving in current pop culture and personal anecdotes

Dinner with Racers Podcast Presented by Continental Tire

In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed, divergent viewpoints could be respectfully discussed at the highest level, and the great minds of an age might all dine together in the rarefied glamour of "the people's house."

Victor, Lance, and Kenny—seasoned firefighters who have swapped their fire axes for microphones to host the true-crime podcast "Dinner at the Deuce." These self-proclaimed blockheads bring their unique perspective and first hand experiences to infamous cases, sharing outlandish theories and questionable opinions that are purely for entertainment and should without a doubt be taken with a grain of salt. With a background in battling blazes rather than solving mysteries, this trio combines humor, camaraderie, and a hefty dose of ignorance to explore true-crime stories, proving that while they ...

In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a Black man-and former slave-sent shock waves through the nation. Although African Americans had helped build the White House and had worked for most of the presidents, not a single one had ever been invited to dine there. Fueled by inflammatory newspaper articles, political cartoons, and even vulgar songs, the scandal escalated.

Join this neurodivergent, obnoxiously functional, family of six for dinner conversation twice a week. Laughs will ensue. Posting every Monday and Thursday.

My father, Volker, came of age in German at the end of WWII. Today he is 92 years old and sharing his stories of survival, fate and good luck amid unimaginable chaos and carnage. How his family had to hide women in haylofts to protect them from marauding Russian soldiers. How fleeing German soldiers stole anything with wheels to escape to the western front, because being captured by Russian soldiers meant almost certain death. The Germans who resisted Adolph Hitler. An uncle who was hanged for participating in the attempted assassination of Hitler. My father shares stories that resonate today.

Inhalt: Londoner Vergnügungen und Ergötzlichkeiten charakterisiert amüsant die englische Mittelklasse, deren Feierabend- und Wochenendaktivitäten durch die Konstanz bzw. Regelmäßigkeit der Abläufe das mehr oder weniger ewig Gleiche in winzigen Variationen reflektiert. Der Strom richtet den Fokus auf die Wassersportbegeisterung der Londoner und zwar in aktiver wie passiver Weise. Zu einer Zeit als Die Morgenpostkutschen ein alternatives Beförderungsinstrument der Großstadt abbildeten, war es mit gewissen Unannehmlichkeiten verbunden sich einen Platz in selbigen zu sichern.

Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while scrolling through e-mails on our BlackBerrys? How many of us feel overextended, as we are challenged to play multiple roles - worker, boss, parent, spouse, friend, and client - all in the same instant?

Dalton Conley, social scientist and writer, provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., Conley connects our daily experience with occasionally overlooked sociological changes: women's increasing participation in the labor force; rising economic inequality generating anxiety among successful professionals; the individualism of the modern era - the belief in self-actualization and expression - being replaced by the need to play different roles in the various realms of one's existence. In this groundbreaking book, Conley offers an essential understanding of how the technological, social, and economic changes that have reshaped our world are also reshaping our individual lives.