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Messing up the numbering scheme is a long Doctor Who tradition, and this story goes on for ages, so I’ve split it in two. So… Broadcast: January 1966 Watched: July 2019 8. Volcano Douglas Adams definitely ripped off the cricket bit for Life, the Universe & Everything. Which feels like it should have been in the last one. Very odd here. What exactly is the point of the Daleks’ allies? They don’t seem to provide any troops and the Daleks murder them at random.

During the fall of 1986, Keith and Elaine Dardeen of Mount Carmel, Illinois, were in the beginning stages of starting a family.   They already had a two-year-old son named Peter, but Keith’s unemployment meant they had nowhere to live, and no means of providing for their infant child. Yet one day, Keith’s relentless job search paid off, and he landed the role of Plant Operator at the Rend Lake Water Conservancy facility over in Ina, Illinois.

What happens if you take the value philosophy of Graham and Dodd and take it to 11? If you combine it with boundless ambition, aggression, and leverage? Private equity? Close. If you go further back in time, you get the story of Meshulam Riklis. In the wake of WWII, Riklis arrived in the US as a penniless immigrant. He combined an instinct for deep value situations with a talent for convincing aging founders that he was the right person to sell to.

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Well, it’s finally here. The trailer for the highly-anticipated Dune: Part 2 has now dropped, giving us our first looks at such beloved characters as Princess Irulan and Feyd-Rautha, the latter of whom looks like he is going to be even more unhinged than he is in the novel (and, if you’ve read Herbert’s book, you know that’s no small thing). We’re also graced with a few more glances at Stellan Skarsgård as Baron Harkonnen, the devoted enemy of House Atreides and the architect of their destruction.

On 21 April 1509, Henry VII died at Richmond Palace. He was fifty-two years old, and had reigned for nearly twenty-four years. In truth, the final years of Henry’s reign were tough, both for his subjects who were fearful of falling foul of a strategically avaricious king, and for himself, increasingly isolated and paranoid. When death came, it was probably a relief for Henry, and for England. Polydore Vergil, an eyewitness for this period, reported that king was ‘greatly incapacitated’ with sickness throughout the final three years of his life, which included a chronic chest issue.

One thing I’m noticing about all the Twitter brigading on my pictures is just how easy it is to provoke a basic emotional response in a majority of hate-followers. The first Maxim of the Internet: Never use allegory, metaphor, hyperbole, sarcasm, or prose. Whatever can be taken literally will be taken literally. All art of language, all subtlety of expression, will be wasted on minds trained to react to 45-second video clips in 280 characters or less.

Eating at Arpège for the first time changed my life. This was back in 2010, and I was broke. I saved up for months to take my then-boyfriend for his birthday. It was my first three-star restaurant, and I wanted to feel ready (or maybe worthy?), so I read everything I could about chef Alain Passard and his celebration of vegetables. ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omKuolZyy

Vivek Ramaswamy, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur running for the Republican Party (at least for now) nomination for president, announced in a long post on Twitter/X this morning that he will not attend the next primary debate hosted by CNN on January 10th, to be held at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He claimed the network had engaged in “shenanigans” throughout the campaign and that the debate would be “fake.” The real reason for Ramaswamy’s boycott may be less a profound disagreement with the network’s coverage of him (Ramaswamy previously appeared on an exclusive town hall with CNN), and more damage control.