Bauer, Walter, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, Sigler Press 1996 'This brilliant and pioneering monograph inaugurated a new era of scholarship in the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, especially in America. It argued that early Christianity did not begin with a unified orthodox belief, from which heresies broke off at a later time. Rather, Bauer demonstrated that diversity stood at the beginning, while an orthodox church emerged only after long controversies during the early centuries. During recent decades, the investigation of newly discovered texts, such as the Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, have fully confirmed Bauer's insights.

There may be numerous details, which scholars today would see differently than Walter Bauer, whose word was first published in Germany sixty years ago. Nevertheless, Bauer's book has remained the foundation for all modern scholarship in this field, and it is must-reading for all who want to explore early Christian Communities. It is still challenging, fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking -- without any question of the truly great masterpieces of New Testament scholarship.'

Helmut Koester Professor of New Testament Studies and Ancient Church History at Harvard Divinity School  
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Christie, Agatha, Elephants Can Remember, Bantam Books 1984 'A Classic example of the ingenious three-card trick she has been playing on us for so many years.' Sunday Express 
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Debray, Regis, God, An Itinerary, Verso 2004 Amazon Product Description 'God, who has changed the lives—and deaths—of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God has been addressed in many different ways and cannot be said to have the same characteristics in the year 500 BC as in AD 400 or in the twenty-first century, nor is He the same entity in Jerusalem or Constantinople as in Rome or New York. The omnipotent and punitive God of the Hebrews is not the consoling and intimate God of the Christians, and is certainly not identical with the impersonal cosmic Energy of the New Agers.

Régis Debray's purpose in this major new book is to trace the episodes of the genesis of God, His itinerary and the costs of His survival. Debray shifts the spotlight away from the theological foreground and moves it backstage to the machinery of divine production by going back, from the Law, to the Tablets themselves and by scrutinizing Heaven at its most down-to-earth. Throughout this beautifully illustrated book, he is able to focus his attention not just on what was written, but on how it was written: with what tools, on what surface, for what social purpose and in what physical environment. Debray contends that, in order to discover how God's fire was transferred from the desert to the prairie, we ought first to bracket the philosophical questions and focus on empirical information. However, he claims that this does not lessen its significance, but rather gives new life to spiritual issues. God: An Itinerary uses the histories of the Eternal and of the West to illuminate one another and to throw light on contemporary civilization itself. 50 b/w illustrations.'  
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Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, W W Norton and Co 1997 'Diamond's book is complex and a bit overwhelming. But the thesis he methodically puts forth—examining the "positive feedback loop" of farming, then domestication, then population density, then innovation, and on and on—makes sense. Written without favor, Guns, Germs, and Steel is good global history.' Amazon.com 
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Graham, Carol, Happiness Around the World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires, Oxford University Press 2010 Amazon editorial review: "'n the past decade there has emerged a substantial literature on the economics of happiness. What makes people happy--earnings, health, the economic environment, the political system, neighbors, family? And what effect does happiness have on earnings, health, and the political system? A prodigious contributor to that literature is Dr. Carol Graham, who has now assembled a masterful review of the subject.'--Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2005, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, University of Maryland 
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le Carre, John, The Secret Pilgrim, Random House Value Publishing 1992 Amazon customer review: 'Mr John LeCarre, with Len Deighton, is tops at writing about espionage and he deserves mention in the history of English literature of this century. I have all his books in my personal library. They all denote an insider's knowledge of the espionage world, the right dose of skepticism about human nature, tongue-in-cheek, sense of the plot, mastery of the language, eclecticism. The only flaw may be found in a pervasive melancholy and pessimism: there is never sun in these books, only a uniform and pervasive grayness - but I guess the world he describes is of that colour. However, he is one of the most entertaining writers I ever found and I always look for new production of his whenever I enter a bookstore.' A reader 
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Lonergan (1992), Bernard J F, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '. . . Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding' 
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Lozada, Carlos, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, Simon & Schuster 2020 ' Lozada’s argument is provocative: that many of these books—whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, Trump’s true believers or his harshest critics—are vulnerable to the same blind spots, resentments, and failures that gave us his presidency. But Lozada also highlights the books that succeed in illuminating how America is changing in the 21st century. What Were We Thinking is an intellectual history of the Trump era in real time, helping us transcend the battles of the moment and see ourselves for who we really are. 
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Mason, Chief Justice, and Brennan, Deane, Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron and McHugh, Reasons for Judgement: Eddie Mabo and ors and the State of Queensland, High Court of Australia 3 June 1992 back

Newman, John Henry, An Essay on the Development of Chritian Doctrine, Cosimo Classics 2007 Jacket: 'Still considered essential reading for serious thinkers on religion more than a century and a half after it was written, this seminal work of modern theology, first published in 1845, presents a history of Catholic doctrine from the days of the Apostles to the time of its writing, and follows with specific examples of how the doctrine has not only survived corruption but grown stronger through defending itself against it, and is, therefore, the true religion. This classic of Christian apologetics, considered a foundational work of 19th-century intellectualism on par with Darwin's Origin of Species, is must reading not only for the faithful but also for anyone who wishes to be well educated in the fundamentals of modern thought. ' 
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Reynolds, Vernon, and Ralph Tanner, The Biology of Religion, Longman 1983  
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Veltman (1994), Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...' 
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Zemanian, Armen H, Graphs and Networks: Transfinite and Nonstandard, Birkhäuser 2004 Amazon editorial review :'For about thirty years Zemanian has been developing a theory of infinite electrical networks. This book is the latest in a series of books...on the subject. The subject is necessarily abstract and sophisticated because infinite objects are the main objects of discourse.... The first few chapters are important not only to remind the reader of the terms, but also to give an improved or alternate treatment of some earlier results. There does not yet seem to be a large following of researchers in this area, but it seems very attractive and ripe for investigation. Its intriguing to see the connections between set theory and electrical network problems.... To understand these concepts fully the reader must consult the book under review. The reviewer highly recommends devoting the effort needed to understand these original and surprising concepts.'   SIAM Review 
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Ak, Prashanth, "Toward an Economy of Well-Being", Science, 329, 5992, 6 August 2010, page 630-31. Review of Carol Graham, Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires. back

Broecker, Wally, "Three Qs", Science, 329, 5992, 6 August 2010, page 613. 'Q What's the most misunderstood thing about climate change? I always tell people that if all we had was a natural record, we would be in a weak position with regard to saying we should do something about carbon dioxide. But our position is really based on the physics which says that if you add greenhouse gases to the planet, its going to warm. . . . If it doesn't happen that would mean we're in the dark ages as far as understanding climate.'. back

Franson, James D, "Pairs Rule Quantum Interference", Science, 329, 5990, 23 July 2010, page 396-397. 'Quantum interference is one of the most mysterious features of quantum mechanics. In fact, Feynman referred to the double-slit interference experiment for single particles as the "only" mystery of quantum mechanics. On page 418 of this issuse, Sinha et al. describe a recent experiment that shows that quantum interference from a single photon arises only from pairs of possible paths through an interferometer. There is no need to invoke additional interference terms that might arise from the interference of three or more paths.'. back

Schlesinger, William H, "Translational Ecology", Science, 329, 5992, 6 August 2010, page 609. '. . . despite producing an enormous amount of new information, ecologists are often unable to convey knowledge effectively to the public and policy-makers. Unless the discoveries of ecological science are rapidly translated into meaningful actions, they will remain quietly archived while the biolsphere degrades.'. back

Sinha, Urbasi, et al., "Ruling out Multi-Order Interference in Quantum Mechanics", Science, 329, 5990, 23 July 2010, page 418-421. 'Quantum mechanics and gravitation are two pillars of modern physics. Despite their success in describing the physical world around us, they seem to be incompatible theories. There are suggestions that one of these theories must be generalized to achieve unification. For example, Born's rule -- one of the axioms of quantum mechanics -- could be violated. Born's rule predicts that quantum interference as shown by a double-slit diffraction experiment, occurs for pairs of paths. A generalized version of quantum mechanics might allow multipath (i.e. higher order) interference, thus leading to a deviation from the theory. We performed a three-slit experiment with photons and bounded the magnitude of three-path interference to less than 10^-2 of the expected two path interference, this ruling out third- and higher-order interference and providing a bound on the accuracy of Born's rule. Our experiment is consistent with the postulate both in semiclassical and quantum regimes.'. back

ABC iview, And We Danced Series 1 Episode 3, The Australian Ballet entered a new millennium with a bold crestive appointment. Fresh from the dancer's ranks and with no leadership experience, David McAllister took over from Ross Stretton as Artistic Director in 2001. back

Al Jazeera & Agencies, Famed Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis dies at 96, ' Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved Greek composer whose spirited music and life of political defiance won international acclaim and inspired millions at home, has died. He was 96. His death on Thursday at his home in central Athens was announced on state television and followed multiple hospitalisations in recent years, mostly for heart treatment.' back

Anaxagoras - Wikipedia, Anaxagoras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Anaxagoras (Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese. He was accused of contravening the established religion and was forced to flee to Lampsacus.

Anaxagoras is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force. He regarded material substance as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements, referring all generation and disappearance to mixture and separation respectively.' back

Anthony Burke & Danielle Celermajer, Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth, ' In the face of such horrors, a new international campaign is calling for “ecocide” – the killing of ecology – to be deemed an international “super crime” in the order of genocide. . . . Genocide – the annihilation of human groups – is recognised as a crime against humanity. As political philosopher Hannah Arendt argued, genocide is an attack on human diversity that erodes the “very nature of mankind” and poses a grave threat to global order. In the same way, the definition of ecocide should recognise that acts which destroy biological diversity, and lead to species extinction, threaten the very nature and survival of Earth’s multi-species community.' back

Bangarra Dance Theatre, Rites: Music Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, ' “Rites is an exploration of the natural forces which determine our ancient landscape. I have not tried to harness nature’s elemental forces – this human need for control is futile and meaningless. Rather, I have tried to capture the spiritual essence of these elements in 'snapshots' or flashpoints. Each of the elements - 'Earth', 'Wind', 'Fire', 'Water' – have their own ritual, their own special characteristics. They are complex, ephemeral moments occurring simultaneously in a non-linear time frame. Beginning with Awakening and completed by Dreaming, these elements are part of the great cyclic universal force: our spiritual essence, our Dreaming.” back

Bernard of Chartres - Wikipedia, Bernard of Chartres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Bernard of Chartres (Bernardus Carnotensis) (died after 1124) was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator. back

Born rule - Wikipedia, Born rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Born rule (also called the Born law, Born's rule, or Born's law) is a law of quantum mechanics which gives the probability that a measurement on a quantum system will yield a given result. It is named after its originator, the physicist Max Born. The Born rule is one of the key principles of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. There have been many attempts to derive the Born rule from the other assumptions of quantum mechanics, with inconclusive results. . . . The Born rule states that if an observable corresponding to a Hermitian operator A with discrete spectrum is measured in a system with normalized wave function (see bra-ket notation), then the measured result will be one of the eigenvalues λ of A, and the probability of measuring a given eigenvalue λ_i will equal <ψ|P_i|ψ> where P_i is the projection onto the eigenspace of A corresponding to λ_i'. back

Carlos Lozada, ' 9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed., ' “The U.S. government must define what the message is, what it stands for,” the [9/11 Commission report]asserts. “We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors. . . . We need to defend our ideals abroad vigorously. America does stand up for its values. . . . Rather than exemplify the nation’s highest values, the official response to 9/11 unleashed some of its worst qualities: deception, brutality, arrogance, ignorance, delusion, overreach and carelessness. This conclusion is laid bare in the sprawling literature to emerge from 9/11 over the past two decades . . . ” back

Catholic Enquiry Centre, What is the Church's position on the death penalty - Catholic Enquiry Centre, 'You will find a statement on the death penalty in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 2266 and 2267. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is available on the Vatican website: http://www.vatican.va/.

The church does allow the use of the death penalty, but only if this is the only way of protecting people against an unjust aggressor. The church believes that the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity ‘are very rare, if not practically non-existent’.

There has been a significant shift away from the position as stated by the Church in ancient times and most commentators today would consider that the circumstances in modern society do not exist such as to justify capital punishment.' back

Clifford algebra - Wikipedia, Clifford algebra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematics, Clifford algebras are a type of associative algebra. As K-algebras, they generalize the real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions and several other hypercomplex number systems. The theory of Clifford algebras is intimately connected with the theory of quadratic forms and orthogonal transformations. Clifford algebras have important applications in a variety of fields including geometry, theoretical physics and digital image processing. They are named after the English geometer William Kingdon Clifford. back

David H. Levy, Carolyn S. Shoemaker (1929=2021), ' For many years, Carolyn S. Shoemaker held the record for the largest number of comets discovered by an individual, but by far her most famous discovery was comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. From 16 to 22 July 1994, fragments of this comet, travelling at some 60 kilometres per second, collided with Jupiter, resulting in the most dramatic explosions in the Solar System ever witnessed by humanity. The dark spots left by the impacts were visible for almost a year. This singular experience had begun almost 16 months previously at the Palomar Observatory, California, when Shoemaker stopped scanning her photographic plates, looked up and said, “I do not know what I have, but it looks like a squashed comet.” In the following few minutes, her husband Gene and I confirmed the sighting.' back

Event horizon - Wikipedia, Event horizon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In general relativity, an event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman's terms, it is defined as the shell of "points of no return", i.e., the points at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible, even for light. ' back

Halting problem- Wikipedia, Halting problem- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In computability theory, the halting problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows: given a description of a program and a finite input, decide whether the program finishes running or will run forever, given that input. Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist. We say that the halting problem is undecidable over Turing machines. Copeland (2004) attributes the actual term halting problem to Martin Davis.' back

Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger on why America failed in Afghanistan, ' Would it have been possible to co-ordinate some common counterinsurgency efforts? To be sure, India, China, Russia and Pakistan often have divergent interests. A creative diplomacy might have distilled common measures for overcoming terrorism in Afghanistan. This strategy is how Britain defended the land approaches to India across the Middle East for a century without permanent bases but permanent readiness to defend its interests, together with ad hoc regional supporters.' back

Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring: Leonard Bernstein, ' Its premiere, at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées on May 29, 1913, conducted by Pierre Monteux, caused a scandal. The work was such a violent wrench from every musical tradition that had gone before that, to many people, it seemed like the work of a madman. There is no space here to illustrate the many complex technical innovations in this primordial, elemental score, but, contrary to popular belief, it was not just the shock of hearing the music, nor Nijinsky’s exotic choreography, nor Roerich’s bizarre settings that prompted the riot that ensued in the theatre. There were anti-Russian, anti-Diaghilev and anti-Nijinsky factions at work in Paris, determined to disrupt proceedings before a note of music had been heard. A year later, a concert performance was given in the Casino de Paris, conducted again by Monteux. Stravinsky was carried from the hall shoulder-high in triumph. back

Jeff Tollefson, US achieves laser-fusion record: what it means for nuclear-weapons research, ' Housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the US$3.5-billion facility wasn’t designed to serve as a power-plant prototype, however, but rather to probe fusion reactions at the heart of thermonuclear weapons. After the United States banned underground nuclear testing at the end of the cold war in 1992, the energy department proposed the NIF as part of a larger science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program, designed to verify the reliability of the country’s nuclear weapons without detonating any of them.' back

John C. Eccles, Innovation in Science: The Physiology of Imagination, ' Our task here is to see how far our present ideas on the working of the brain can be related to the experiences of mind. The way to the imagination, the highest level of mental experience, lies through the lower levels of sensory experience, imagery, hallucination and memory, and that is the path we shall traverse. All that we shall learn must itself, of course, be the product of perceiving, reasoning and imagining by our brains! back

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wave-particle duality quantified for the first time, ' One of the most counterintuitive concepts in physics – the idea that quantum objects are complementary, behaving like waves in some situations and like particles in others – just got a new and more quantitative foundation. In a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, scientists at Korea’s Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS) used precisely controlled photon sources to measure a photon’s degree of wave-ness and particle-ness. Their results, published in Science Advances, show that the properties of the photon’s source influence its wave and particle character – a discovery that complicates and challenges the common understanding of complementarity.' back

Kerson Huang (2013), A Critical History of Renormalization, ' The history of renormalization is reviewed with a critical eye,starting with Lorentz's theory of radiation damping, through perturbative QED with Dyson, Gell‐Mann & Low, and others, to Wilson's formulation and Polchinski's functional equation,and applications to "triviality", and dark energy in cosmology.' back

Lamb shift - Wikipedia, Lamb shift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb (1913–2008), is a difference in energy between two energy levels ²S_½ and ²P_½ (in term symbol notation) of the hydrogen atom which was not predicted by the Dirac equation, according to which these states should have the same energy. Interaction between vacuum energy fluctuations and the hydrogen electron in these different orbitals is the cause of the Lamb Shift, as was shown subsequent to its discovery.' back

Machete (2010 film) - Wikipedia, Machete (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Machete is a 2010 American exploitation action film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. Based on the eponymous character from the Spy Kids franchise, the film is an expansion of a fake trailer of the same name published as a part of the promotion of Rodriguez's and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 Grindhouse double-feature. Machete continues the B movie and exploitation style of Grindhouse, and includes some of the footage from the original. The film stars Danny Trejo reprising the title role from the Spy Kids series and the fake trailer, and co-stars Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin and Jeff Fahey.' back

Mark Croft, Galileo Galilei's Anagram, 'Galileo's anagram was as follows. "Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur o.y." or "These are at present too young to be read by me" By New Years Day of 1611 Venus had moved around to the near side of the sun, it's crescent phase had begun to emerge, and Galileo unscrambled the anagram. "Cynthiae figuras aemulatur mater amorum" or "The mother of love imitates the shape of Cynthia" In plain words Venus (the mother of love) manifests all the phases that the Moon (Cynthia) goes through (and hence Venus must pass on both sides of the sun!!!). Galileo's observation absolutely proved the Ptolemaic system wrong.' back

National Film and Sound Archive, Mabo / High Court Judgement, ' . . . all six majority Judges agreed: * That the concept of native title can be recognised under the common law of Australia;
* That the content of native title and the identification of native title holders is ascertained according to the laws and customs of the indigenous people connected to the land;
* That on the acquisition of sovereignty the Crown obtained an underlying ('radical') title to the land within the Colony;
* That the acquisition of sovereignty did not itself extinguish native title;
* That the Crown is able to extinguish native title, provided that the extinguishment is effected by a valid exercise of government power which reveals a clear and plain intention to extinguish. back

News Agencies, Russia warns Google, Apple over Kremlin critic Navalny’s app, ' Russia’s state communications regulator is warning that the refusal by Google and Apple to remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny’s app before elections could be seen as interference in the country’s domestic affairs. On Thursday, Roskomnadzor ramped up pressure on the Western tech giants saying they could be held criminally liable if they continue to refuse to comply with Russian law. . . . Roskomnadzor said Google and Apple could face an initial fine of up to four million roubles ($55,000) for not restricting access to the app, Interfax news agency said.' back

Pina Bausch / Igor Stravinsky, Pina Bausch Le Sacre du Printemps/The Rite of Spring /Tavaszi áldozat 1978, ' Song The Rite of Spring, Part 1 Artist The Cleveland Orchestra Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of SMCMG); IMPEL, UMPI, LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, Public Domain Compositions, and 12 Music Rights Societies Song Le sacre du printemps (1947 version): Pt. 2 "The Sacrifice", Introduction Artist Pierre Boulez Writers Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of Sony Classical); LatinAutorPerf, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, SODRAC, UMPI, Public Domain Compositions, and 7 Music Rights Societies back

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Australian Ballet: Graeme Murphy, ' Graeme Murphy’s modern-day classic is a Swan Lake for the 21st century, charged with sensuality and heartbreak. The Australian Ballet’s most performed and most successful work has swept the world before it, reaping standing ovations and storms of tears in London, Paris, Tokyo and New York. The romance of Princess Odette and Prince Siegfried is updated (and complicated) to a contemporary love triangle with the addition of the Baroness von Rothbart, a slinky mistress who has no intention of releasing her freshly married lover. Murphy’s breathtaking pas de deux and massed swans are framed by legendary designer Kristian Fredrikson’s darkly sparkling lake, contrasted with the glittering magnificence of regal weddings and ballrooms. This is Swan Lake as you’ve never seen it before. back

Régis Debray - Wikipedia, Régis Debray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Jules Régis Debray (born 1940) is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia.' back

Shelter Island Conference - Wikipedia, Shelter Island Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The first Shelter Island Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics was held from June 2–4, 1947 at the Ram's Head Inn in Shelter Island, New York. Shelter Island was the first major opportunity since Pearl Harbor and the Manhattan Project for the leaders of the American physics community to gather after the war. As Julian Schwinger would later recall, "It was the first time that people who had all this physics pent up in them for five years could talk to each other without somebody peering over their shoulders and saying, 'Is this cleared?'" ' back

Vice (2018 film) - Wikipedia, Vice (2018 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Vice is a 2018 American biographical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam McKay. The film stars Christian Bale as former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Justin Kirk, Tyler Perry, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, and Jesse Plemons in supporting roles. The film follows Cheney on his path to becoming the most powerful Vice President in American history. It is the second theatrical film to depict the presidency of George W. Bush, following Oliver Stone's W. (2008).' back