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Tube Transportation: New Technology Designed For Space Travel on Earth
In the classic television show “The Jetsons,” father George brought his kids to school in tiny capsules in the year 2062. Soon, we might be able to travel via capsule, too. Packed commuter trains could very well be replaced with sleek and small capsules traveling through a network of low grade vacuum tubes. It sounds […]
Tracy Letts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Tracy Letts is one of the most talented people in American theater today. His play August, Osage County, about a southern family thrown into crisis, won the Pulitzer Prize. Letts is also an acclaimed actor starring in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Letts plays George, a frustrated history professor […]
Scandals, State Dinners and the Real Story Behind ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’
In 1939, just weeks before England entered World War II, a historic meeting took place between King George VI of England and the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the first time that a sitting British royal had ever visited the U.S. and the king, fearing the impending threat of Nazi Germany, was eager to […]
