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...twice as long as a normal game was in the early 20th century. In 1920, a 26-inning game—that’s almost three normal games in a row—ended after three hours and 50 minutes. Even by 1943, the American League average game length was still just one hour, 58 minutes...
...Harvard’s own Professor Leila N. Ahmed (who is pointedly critical of medieval Islamic society’s treatment of women), wrote at length of what she calls “colonial feminism”: a part of the “civilizing” mission of the British, whereby British colonial presence in Egypt was justified with claims to liberate “native” women from oppression—all while Englishwomen still lacked the right to vote. Horowitz’s logic is nothing more than colonial feminism in today?...
...writes the kind of songs you might have written when you were 12, adopting various musical styles and rigging them up with lyrics that walk the line between juvenile and crass. Only they do it surprisingly well—most of the time, anyway. Now, on their 11th full-length album, Ween seems to have lost some of the magic that earned them a name in the alternative music genre. “La Cucaracha” focuses heavily on satirizing various musical styles, and strays away from Ween’s traditional biting high school humor...
...distinctive character,” says Jocelyn Clark, the founder of IIIZ+, of the zithers. “What I like about the zither compared to, for instance, the harp, which is a very beautiful instrument, is the ability to make ornaments. The string goes the length of the instrument and you can pluck with your right hand and create ornaments with your left.”“It’s almost like playing a rubber band,” she elaborates. “The tighter you hold it, the higher the pitch. The looser...
...warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length of the wildfire season and the size and duration of the average fire...