John Burroughs, the naturalist and writer on nature, recently celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday by having a maple sugar boil with his grandchildren. They made “maple taffy,” which is the result of boiling maple sap over an open fire and then cooling it on snow. Mr. Burroughs says that “maple taffy”…
Princess Vilma’s Entry in Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement
Parlaghy, Vilma, or the Princess Lwoff. Great gold medal from the Emperor of Austria, 1890; great gold medal, 1894; small gold medal at Berlin, 1890, adjudged to her portrait of Windhorst. Born at Hadju-Dorogh in 1863, and studied in Budapest, Munich, Venice, Florence, and Turin. Her portraits having found great…
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Resident Evil is about the Evil Residents
Games Resident Evil (1996): A team of special forces agents investigates strange occurrences at a mansion in the outskirts of Raccoon City, where they encounter zombies and other mutated monsters. Resident Evil 2 (1998): Set two months after the events of the first game, this sequel follows rookie cop Leon…
Jacques Maritain gave the annual Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University
Born in Paris on November 18, 1882, Maritain received his early education at the Lycee Henri IV and his university education at the Sorbonne, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy and the agrege de l’universite. He also spent two years (1907-1908) studying biology at the University of Heidelberg. This…
