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...stove is British in that it is manufactured solely in Shropshire, in western England, by the Aga-Rayburn company (www.aga-rayburn.co.uk), now a part of the larger Aga Foodservice Group. However, the Aga was invented not in Britain but in Sweden in the 1920s...
...bearded humanities professors and beer-ded guys in the bleachers alike. Its specialness hits you on the first page. A mock poster advertises a (fictional) all-Jewish baseball team, The Stars of David. Narrated by the Stars' manager, Noah "The Zion Lion" Strauss, the story takes place during the 1920s and the days of barnstorming minor leagues - back when the game had a bit more vaudeville and bit less Hollywood...
...Jethro Tull, King Crimson and Tyrannosaurus Rex; in Oxted, U.K. Prior to joining the Beeb he played trumpet with the Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris; in New York City. As a young artist she had her portrait drawn by Alberto Giacometti and taught Pablo Picasso how to play Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s...
Unbeknownst to the duo, physicists at nearby Princeton University were about to turn their antenna on the heavens to look for that same signal. Astronomers had known since the 1920s that the galaxies were flying apart. But theorists had belatedly realized a key implication: the whole cosmos must at one point have been much smaller and hotter. About 300,000 years after the instant of the Big Bang, the entire visible universe would have been a cloud of hot, incredibly dense gas, not much bigger than the Milky Way is now, glowing white hot like a blast furnace...
...with his constant cigar, he could look at times like Mephistopheles in a Brechtian update of Faust. Like Wright, he also sustained a 19th century romantic notion of himself as an artist, a man answerable only to his own instincts. (After just a few years of marriage in the 1920s, his hapless wife Ada decided to stop resisting his regular infidelities and move out.) Mies insisted that the architect must surrender his urge to add personal "touches," but he broke his rule on some of his greatest buildings. The slender steel mullions that run up the walls of the Seagram...