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This is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate built by King Nebuchadnezzar II at the entrance to Babylon about 600 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born. You can’t see it in Iraq these days, but there’s a version in a German museum that was built in the 1930s from remains…
Read More »With more polls showing the public sympathizes with the general goals of the “Occupy” movement, Charles Blow of the NYTimes today takes a cultural cut at the activity to try to figure out why this thing isn’t going away quickly. He suggests that it has attained that mysterious quality of…
Read More »A swimmer from Harvard trains at Walden Pond in Concord for Olympic competition. Read Karen Crouse’s long profile of Alex Meyer in the NYTimes, and get the paper if you want more.
Read More »J Jack Kerouac, His Life Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1922, “at five o’clock in the afternoon of a red-all-over supper time” (Doctor Sax) and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47. Kerouac’s first seventeen years were those…
Read More »Lowell received its charter as a town in 1826 and for the next few decades, the explosive growth of the textile mills, the canals, and the population made that era the focal point of most of our current historical musings. But English settlers had arrived in this region nearly two…
Read More »The death of Muammar el-Qaddafi yesterday was a triumph for all civilization. He was a terrorist who was responsible for many deaths, including the passengers and crew of Pan Am flight 103 who died when a bomb planted by Libyan intelligence agents exploded when the plane reached a certain altitude…
Read More »Constitution on her 213th birthday, 21 October 2010 History.com tells us that on this day – October 21, 1797, the USS Constitution – a 44-gun, wooden-hulled, three-masted, heavy frigate of the United States Navy – was launched in Boston Harbor. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States – she is the world’s…
Read More »Nixon departs – August 9, 1974 On this day – October 20, 1973 – President Richard Nixon had independent Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed. This action triggered the House Judiciary Committee inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Nixon. The “Saturday Night Massacre” was the term given by political…
Read More »Yesterday, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in Bevilacqua v US Bank, a case that involved a defective mortgage foreclosure. Contrary to what is implied by the Boston Globe’s headline – Mass ruling on foreclosure deals leaves buyers in limbo – Bevilacqua does not radically change things, it…
Read More »Update on “The Fighter 2” – In today’s Boston Herald “Inside Track” there’s a report that a break-up in the personal relationship of “The Fighter” producer and star Mark Wahlberg and its director David O. Russell may put the anticipated sequel on the ropes. The “Track” reports the Lowell’s Mickey…
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