![]() From April 1995 to December 2008, he also wrote the "Full Disclosure" column anchoring the back page of PC World. Manes wrote the "Digital Tools" column that appeared in every issue of Forbes from August 1998 until February 2007, when he announced a six-month "break" after his review of Windows Vista. He attended the University of Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. ![]() ![]() Its subject, the workings of a ballet company, marked a significant departure for an author best known for his journalism on technology and his books for children.īorn and raised in Pittsburgh. ![]() Stephen Manes (born January 8, 1949) is an American author, magazine columnist, and screenwriter known for the 2011 nonfiction book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear: Inside the Land of Ballet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She uses satellite imagery taken from space to map and model ancient landscapes here on earth. She “fell in love with the idea of archaeology and discovery.” Also while growing up, Sarah spent a lot of time with her grandfather, Harold Young, who was a forestry professor at the University of Maine, and was one of the pioneers in using aerial photographs for identifying and measuring areas of forest.Ĭombining her love of Egyptology with the technology of remote sensing, Sarah became a space archaeologist. Parcak was a child of the 80’s and one of her favorite movies was, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Her new book is called “Archaeology from Space.” ![]() ![]() Sarah Parcak is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and she’s a space archaeologist. Help Find Ancient Egyptian Sites on your Coffee Break ![]() ![]() This is why Ahsoka Tano has white-bladed lightsabers on Star Wars Rebels and her live-action appearances. The dark side process forces the crystal to bend to the will of the Sith and the dark side, turning the blade it produces blood-red. These crystals are semi-sentient, choosing the Jedi who will wield them rather than the other way around. The Sith channel their fear, hate, anger and suffering into the kyber. In more recent stories, the question of how Sith get their red crystals was answered in a much more universe-appropriate fashion. However, if "Aau's Song" were Star Wars canon, Visions would've introduced a character more powerful in the Force than maybe any other.Ĭanon or not, the lore around the Force and kyber crystals especially are central to the mythic and religious symbolism in Star Wars. ![]() For example, "Aau's Song" is a lovely, sweet story about parents believing in their kids. ![]() There is a good reason Star Wars: Visions are not considered "canon" in the franchise. The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Visions Season 2, Episode 9, "Aau's Song," now streaming on Disney+. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marooned amid the passion and violence, the superstition, the shifting allegiances and the fervent loyalties, Claire is in danger from Jacobites and Redcoats - and from the shock of her own desire for James Fraser, a gallant and courageous young Scots warrior. But it is harder to deal with the knowledge that she is in Jacobite Scotland and the carnage of Culloden is looming. A wartime nurse, Claire can deal with the bloody wounds that face her. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an outlander, in a country torn by war and by clan feuds. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. ![]() ![]() So I absolutely ADORE the Veronica Speedwell series (I’ve been listening to them all on audiobook this year) so when I saw that the author had a new book coming out I jumped at the chance to get an early copy via Netgalley! And unsurprisingly, I adored this one too! They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman–and a killer–of a certain age. Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they’ve been marked for death. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. ![]() Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills. ![]() Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. ![]() |