Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Albert Bierstadt. Born in Solingen, Germany in 1830, in 1831, Bierstadt's family immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a talent artist from the time.
Ken Burns is a very skilled filmmaker, but he is a terrible adjudicator of history. Despite his constant claims that he doesn't take a position, of course he does and.
The Stop and Shop strike is over and at least tentatively it looks like the workers won most of what they wanted. The devil is always in the details and.
Yutian, CHINA: Cyclists pass through thick pollution from a factory in Yutian, 100km east of Beijing in China's northwest Hebei province, 18 July 2006. China's economy expanded at its fastest.
One of my very favorite museums in the country is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. It does an absolutely wonderful job of taking you into a lost world of.
Inside this family tomb lies Edward G. Robinson. Born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania in 1893, his family decided to move to the U.S. in 1904 to escape anti-Semitism. His.
The Stop and Shop strike continues, with the multi-billion dollar Belgian company who owns it apparently happy to lose millions a day in order to shred workers' health care and.
Maybe serving on corporate boards of the mining companies he dedicated himself to serving will also provide him time to learn how to use a fishing pole so he can.