WHAT’S THAT IN OLD ENGLISH? PART 1
HERE ARE some tidbits about Old English, OE, for short, gleaned from a recent exhibition at the British Museum, a BBC article reviewing this exhibition, and my usual Internet sleuthing. … Continue reading
A WHITE HOUSE CANTATA—RECONSTRUCTED FROM 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
LEONARD BERNSTEIN and Alan Jay Lerner once had an immense Broadway flop. Bernstein, the composer of West Side Story, 1957. And Lerner, the lyricist who brought us “I Could Have … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR
FACTORIES ARE wondrous places. Bits and pieces enter one end and, often in seconds, spiffy new products come out the other. Somewhere in between, workers and machines perform their magic. … Continue reading
AMERICAN DESIGN—A TIME CAPSULE
NOW THAT WE’RE well into the 21st century, several design books on my shelves have taken on the aura of time capsules. One in particular, The Index of American Design, … Continue reading
HOW NOT TO HAVE A PRESS JUNKET PART 2
PLANNING AND INAUGURATION OF India’s Vande Bharat Express had complexities galore, more than enough to warrant yesterday’s SimanaitisSays. Today in Part 2, there are energy concerns, both in propulsion and … Continue reading
HOW NOT TO HAVE A PRESS JUNKET PART 1
DURING MY 33+ years in automotive journalism, I enjoyed a good number of informative and entertaining press trips. High points, good, bad, and mixed, included the fall of the Soviet … Continue reading
HOLMES’ CINEMA HOUND
JUST AS IRENE ADLER would always be “the woman” to Holmes, the Baskerville Hound was “the canine.” Dr. John H. Watson introduced this giant dog in The Hound of the … Continue reading
STEADY THE TOOL; SPIN THE WORK
IT MAY SEEM odd: Hold the carving tool in one place and move the object being carved. Yet, historians of manufacturing say the ancient potter’s wheel led not only to … Continue reading
TUBER TIDBITS
JUST AS MY Lithuanian ancestors worshipped trees, Wife Dottie’s side of the family worships potatoes. We even have a couple Christmas tree ornaments honoring the tuber. Thus, I read with … Continue reading
CELEBRATING THE CONNIE PART 2
THE LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION served admirably as the C-69 in World War II. Both Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways received demobbed versions in October 1945. Connie Finds Peacetime … Continue reading
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