The Victorian Era (1837–1901) became a time of rapid change that affected almost every single area of people’s lives. With the United Kingdom economy becoming more and more dependent on large-scale production and factories, many felt like they were losing something in the process. As the Industrial Revolution gained ground in the first quarter of…
Idalia gained hurricane strength early Tuesday as it headed toward Florida where it was expected to make landfall Wednesday as an ‘extremely dangerous major” storm. Image courtesy NOAA Aug. 29 (UPI) — Idalia strengthened into a hurricane early Tuesday and was expected to become an “extremely dangerous major hurricane” before making landfall in Florida on…
If there’s one thing authors love more than procrastinating, it’s praising one another. During the Renaissance, Thomas More’s Utopia got a proto-blurb from Erasmus (“divine wit”), while Shakespeare’s First Folio got one from Ben Jonson (“The wonder of our stage!”). By the 18th century, the practice of selling a book based on some other author’s…
Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned. The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s office and the homes of its publisher and…
Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in Florida in the next two days. Hurricane Idalia was about 515 kilometres south-southwest of Tampa at 8 a.m. ET on…