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Forbes.com’s
list of the top 20 tools that have “most impacted human civilization” (in no particular order)
- the knife
- the abacus
- the compass
- the pencil
- the harness
- the scythe
- the rifle
- the sword
- eyeglasses
- the saw
- the watch
- the lathe
- the needle
- the candle
- the scale
- the pot
- the telescope
- the level
- the fish hook
- the chisel
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A Ferris wheel (also known as an observation wheel or big wheel) is a nonbuilding structure, consisting of an upright wheel with passenger gondolas attached to the rim.
The original Ferris wheel was designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The term Ferris wheel later came to be used generically for all such rides.
primitive or otherwise disavowed instincts, urges, desires and thoughts ahead
Made me think of Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD...
That Cuban girl
That brought me
She had that skin so fine
and red lips rose-like now
Her mouth was wide
And sweet as well
And now relentless hours of dreaming up her smell
And I feel as if I am looking at the world from the bottom of a well
Lonely and the only way to beat it is to bat it down.
http://www.mikedoughty.com/music/lyrics/62
Here's the book that inspired the movie.
Amazon.com Review
Julie & Julia is the story
of Julie Powell's attempt to revitalize her marriage, restore her
ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, in a period of 365 days. The result is a masterful medley of Bridget Jones' Diary meets Like Water for Chocolate,
mixed with a healthy dose of original wit, warmth, and inspiration that
sets this memoir apart from most tales of personal redemption.
When we first meet Julie, she's a frustrated temp-to-perm secretary who slaves away at a thankless job, only to return to an equally demoralizing apartment in the outer boroughs of Manhattan each evening. At the urging of Eric, her devoted and slightly geeky husband, she decides to start a blog that will chronicle what she dubs the "Julie/Julia
Project." What follows is a year of butter-drenched meals that will both necessitate the wearing of an unbearably uncomfortable girdle on the hottest night of the year, as well as the realization that life is what you make of it and joy is not as impossible a quest as it may seem, even when it's -10 degrees out and your pipes are frozen.
Powell is a natural when it comes to connecting with her readers, which is probably why her blog generated so much buzz, both from readers and media alike. And while her self-deprecating sense of humor can sometimes dissolve into whininess, she never really loses her edge, or her sense of purpose. Even on day 365, she's working her way through Mayonnaise Collee and ending the evening "back exactly where we started--just Eric and me, three cats and Buffy...sitting on a couch in the outer boroughs, eating, with Julia chortling alongside us...."
When the Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling, was asked by the Royal Society of Literature to make reading recommendations, this was her list:
Wuthering Heights • Emily Brontë
Charlie
& the Chocolate Factory • Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe • Daniel
Defoe
David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
Catch-22 • Joseph
Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird • Harper Lee
Animal Farm •
George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice • Beatrix Potter
The
Catcher in the Rye • J. D. Salinger
Hamlet • William Shakespeare
Rowling's Official Site http://www.jkrowling.com
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