Dewey Library - HQ145.N3 B55 2019

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Every year when the seasons change from cold to warm, I get sick. Usually it’s allergies or a cold, but like clockwork I am out of commission for a few days. I suspect this has happened to people since time began, but if you lived on Manhattan Island during the 1790s, and even as late...

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Like many of the nation’s most revered historical events, Thanksgiving has accumulated a lore that often makes  the lines between fact and fiction indecipherable.  Of particular note is the purported landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in December 1620. Although historians have recognized its dubious foundations for some time (after all, the first assertion...

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A Mathematica issue brief synthesizes new and recent evidence on how the two cities’ beverage taxes affected purchases, consumption, and the retail environment.

Garrett, Bradley L

Australia. Parliament. Senate. Education and Employment References Committee, author, issuing body

Frazer, Elizabeth, author

Krever, Richard, author

Dewey Library - HD9697.V544 N488 2019

Onstage, bombastic actors bellowed. Backstage, privileged gentlemen roamed free. Enter David Garrick, the man who changed acting and reformed the theater. His innovations are with us yet, from footlights to scrims. Supervisor of Performing Arts Kevin Ernst tells the history.

Civil war is bloody, regressive, and destructive. Revolution is forward-looking, positive, and regenerative. Yet, says historian David Armitage, even the noblest revolution bears traces of the primitive violence of civil war.

What do you use to wash the baby, clean the house, color your hair or serve for breakfast? If it’s the 18th century, the answer is alcohol. Professor Sarah Meacham describes her research for the book “Every Home a Distillery.”

Evolving Web APIs for everyday developers Michael Mifsud, Senior platforms engineer Redbubble JavaScript is evolving quickly, and with it so the Web APIs. In just a few years it’s grown from humble callbacks to include generators, async iterations, and async functions. With this growth has come fragmentation not just in the availability of APIs but […]

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Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020

Bollywood folks reveal fascinating stories about Irrfan and some shared unseen pictures.

Devereaux, Edwin, 1932- author

Ross, Fiona C

Nakano, Lynne Y., 1965-

Experiencing God As Our Helper

CSS Comparison Functions (min(), max(), clamp()) become supported in Firefox on 8 April 2020, which means that they are now supported in all major browsers. Those CSS functions will provide us with ways to have dynamic layouts and more flexible design components. They can be used for container sizes, font-size, padding. and a lot more. […]

Cunningham, Daniel, author

Highfield, Tim, author

Australia. Parliament. Senate. Economics Legislation Committee, author, issuing body

Buie, Melisa, author

Kickul, Jill R., author

A State Crime Records Bureau-backed report has termed West Bengal the source point for child trafficking within the country.

In pre-recorded video, arrested MP claims Saradha Group media houses were like TMC mouthpiece; says he is being made scapegoat

An internal assessment conducted by the university in 2011 had found that 15 per cent of its teaching staff were below par.

Preliminary investigations have revealed prima facie involvement of four customs department men.

The Centre on Monday announced setting up of a slew of new hospitals and expansion plans for several existing ones to bolster health care facility in West Bengal.

Cricket fans on Tuesday were busy talking about star Afghanistan player Rashid Khan, who broke an ugly record against England by becoming the most expensive bowler in the World Cup history.

According to the term sheet, an over 133 million shares - 5.7 per cent of the total equity shares - are being offered in the range of Rs 1,850-1,950 to investors through a special block window.

Organic volumes for the company got severely impacted in the last 10 days of March due to the spread of Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown restrictions, the company said.

Christian, Katherine, author

Strodder, Chris, 1956-

Shurtleff, Michael, author

At just 13 years, Malavath Poorna from Telangana has become the youngest female climber in the world to scale Mount Everest. Speaking with Rohit E David, Poorna discussed how she has emerged from a family of agricultural labourers to become a mountaineer, the difficulties she faced while navigating Mount Everest, the one thought that kept her going — and how she wants to climb many more mountains now.

'People won't give me a chance just because I am Priyanka Chopra's sister.'

'Since my dad is the director and producer of the film, the environment at home is quiet, nervous, excited and honestly, I just want it over with. Then I can relax and move on with my life.'

'I don't believe in the length of the role. But I definitely don't want to be decoration.'

'The script, the way it has been written, the relationships, the intensity... everything was so powerful.'

'I do drama with the same intensity as any comedy.'

'Relationships have changed so dynamically that the 'woh' doesn't have to be a person.'

'I truly believe that Durga resides in us, women,' says Rani Mukerji. 'If a woman believes that and she chanalises that energy, she will be able to ward off a lot of things.'