Looking for a cleaner, more sustainable path forward, Venice nautical design firm Nuvolari Lenard launches the Thunder water taxi. The 14-seater stays true to the classic wood style of Venice’s luxury water limousines while incorporating a new diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system designed to cut emissions. The result is a timeless watercraft that offers zero-emissions city cruising and more robust diesel range.
Source: Venice hybrid water taxi melds modern technology with classic design
MOMENT IN TIME: MAY 6, 1856
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| In this photo released by the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna former Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is pictured in 1931. Austria and the world will be celebrating Sigmund Freud’s 150th birthday on Saturday May 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Sigmund Freud Museum) |
| Sigismund Schlomo Freud was on born on this day in 1856 in the Austrian Empire, and was the first son from his father’s third marriage. Sigmund became the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating disorders such as anxiety and depression through a “free association” dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst. He focused on the impact of childhood experiences and the unconscious, and created terms such as Oedipus complex, and explored the relationship between the id, ego and superego. He wrote celebrated books including The Interpretation of Dreams and Civilization and its Discontents. During his life, he attracted many wealthy patrons, followers and admirers, including Carl Jung, Salvador Dali and Virginia Woolf. Freud’s approach continues to be controversial as many challenged its science and therapeutic success, while others felt it hindered feminism while inspiring such works as The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique. What cannot be denied is the impact Freud’s work had on society in line with other major thinkers of his era: Darwin, Marx and Einstein. Freud was a heavy cigar smoker and proponent of cocaine as an analgesic. Suffering from mouth cancer, he died at the age of 83 in 1939 shortly after fleeing to London to escape the Nazis. – Graeme Harris |
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MOMENT IN TIME
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| Six of the Group of Seven artists, plus their friend Barker Fairley, sitting around table at the Arts and Letter Club in Toronto in 1920. From clockwise around the table, starting at the left: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley, Frank Johnston [Francis Hans Johnston, known as Franz or Frank], Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald. Photo by Arthur Goss. Originally published August 27, 1960, Globe Magazine, page 42. |
| For more than 100 years, photographers have preserved an extraordinary collection of 20th-century news photography for The Globe and Mail. Every Monday, The Globe features one of these images. This month, we are looking at the Group of Seven, whose inaugural exhibition was 100 years ago. |
| This 100-year-old photograph shows six members of the Group of Seven at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto around the time the group formed in 1920. From left, they are: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson (in the foreground with arms on the table), Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley (a painter who was not a member), Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer and J.E.H. MacDonald. Franklin Carmichael, the youngest of the original seven, is not present. The picture was taken by the city photographer Arthur Gross, better known for documenting poverty in Toronto. |
| The Arts & Letters Club, which still exists, was a gathering place for the artists where they could share their frustrations over the conservative environment of the day. Alone, the artists were often relegated to back corners in exhibitions of academic art and subject to reactionary reviews. Together, as a school dedicated to painting northern landscapes in styles inspired by Post-Impressionist European art, they proved successful at convincing Canadians their art was a dynamic national expression. |
| Johnston dropped out and was replaced by A.J. Casson in 1926, but the association lasted until MacDonald’s death in 1932, after which the artists formed the larger Canadian Group of Painters. |
Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard, who combined the sacred shouts of the black church and the profane sounds of the blues to create some of the world’s first and most influential rock ’n’ roll records, died on Saturday morning in Tullahoma, Tenn. He was 87.His lawyer, Bill Sobel, said the cause was bone cancer.Little Richard did not invent rock ’n’ roll. Other musicians had already been mining a similar vein by the time he recorded his first hit, “Tutti Frutti” — a raucous song about sex, its lyrics cleaned up but its meaning hard to miss — in a New Orleans recording studio in September 1955. Chuck Berry and Fats Domino had reached the pop Top 10, Bo Diddley had topped the rhythm-and-blues charts, and Elvis Presley had been making records for a year.
Source: Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 – The New York Times
It is not clear the date in which the settlers of these tropical lands discovered it was possible to distill a nice beverage from the leftovers of the sugar cane, however, by 1672, pirates and corsairs produced and transported the rumballion. Some believe the name derived from the English rural slang where the term rumballion meant clamor or noise. Truth is that the rum started to be very popular among the sailors because it could to endure long trips and also it was useful to treat different conditions and diseases typical from the Caribbean environments.
Source: Cuban Rum: An interesting history – Espíritu Travel to Cuba
One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we have an almost perfect drug to treat COVID-19, or when almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus.The former is unlikely to happen anytime soon. We’d need a miracle treatment that was at least 95 percent effective to stop the outbreak. Most of the drug candidates right now are nowhere near that powerful. They could save a lot of lives, but they aren’t enough to get us back to normal.Which leaves us with a vaccine.
Source: What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine | Bill Gates
The Global Position System (GPS) has turned 25 years old. Operated by the US Space Force, the constellation of navigational satellites went fully operational on April 27, 1995, though US Space Command only made the formal announcement three months later in July of that year.
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MOMENT IN TIME: APRIL 28, 1986
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| FILE – This April 1986 aerial file photo shows the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, as made two to three days after the explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. (AP Photo/File) |
| It was only 41 words but Mikhail Gorbachev, the last general secretary of the Communist Party, later described the events as leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. At 9:02 p.m., on April 28, 1986, the Soviet Union issued a statement: “There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the nuclear reactors was damaged. The effects of the accident are being remedied. Assistance has been provided for any affected people. An investigative commission has been set up.” The accident happened two days previous and it was still early in Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost, which was meant to leverage the ingenuity of the Soviet citizen to address the problems of their system and seek solutions through openness and transparency in government. The policy had the opposite effect. The attempted cover-up of the world’s worst nuclear disaster showed Soviet citizens the hypocrisy of glasnost and that their government and industry were inferior and incompetent. The outcome was open dissent. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and Gorbachev resigned after an attempted coup in 1991, effectively ending 74 years of Communist rule. – Graeme Harris |
