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Indeed, some of the wine's most passionate defenders have come from Britain. In 1831, a young Englishman, Joseph James Forrester, came to Porto, learned Portuguese, mapped the Douro region, wrote treatises on grape growing and exhorted the wine growers to stop adulterating their wines with sugar, elderberry and brandy...
As a teenager in the 1950s, Louisa Solano learned to tell time backwards at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. She read a clock reflected in the mirror of a barber shop across the street.
But their reception among New Haven’s law enforcement was far less cheery, as Strauss learned that one man’s parade is another man’s riot.
“One of the things that I have learned is that one of the most important choices you make is when to stop,” he says of leaving academia. “You should always try to have that be a choice you make and not...
As a Jew hiding in Nazi-occupied Poland, Begley did not attend school until he was twelve. He says he read constantly and learned Romance languages under the tutelage of his mother and a local university professor.