Word: kingness
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...first time I went on vacation without my long-term, live-in boyfriend, I went to Seattle and, I must confess, I enjoyed every single second of it. From the posh hotel with the king-sized bed (all mine! no snoring!) to seafood dinners with fabulous friends he's never met to a solo stroll through touristy Pike Place Market, I could not stop smiling...
Though a Boston businessman named Charles Ponzi was the scam's namesake, he wasn't its original practitioner. According to Mitchell Zuckoff, a Ponzi biographer, the reigning king of the "rob Peter to pay Paul" scam was a New York grifter named William Miller, who bilked investors out of $1 million - nearly $25 million in today's dollars - in 1899. After drumming up interest by claiming to have an inside window into the way profitable companies operated, Miller - who earned the nickname "520 percent" due to the astonishing rate of return he promised investors over the course of a year...
...Osama bin Laden is captured alive. Network news channels delight at their record high ratings. In order to provide the best coverage possible, CNN immerses John King in a giant touch bubble from which he highlights every possible outcome of the trial...
...record that probably drew less attention, though, was the one-day sales record for a computer game. In a month when, despite holiday shopping, retail sales actually fell 1.8 percent, Blizzard sold 2.8 million copies of their new World of Warcraft expansion, “Wrath of the Lich King,” at $40 a pop and in just...
...20th century was not good to Europe's once mighty kings and queens. Old World royals lost most of their monarchical mojo, with their powers now limited to the purely ceremonial, as in Sweden, or to such roles as the Spanish King's command of his country's armed forces. The last absolute monarch left on European soil is Pope Benedict...