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Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...recommendations and the marriage ended, but not before I began my relationship with my first cousin Elsa, who became my second wife. I am looking for: If you feel that the aforementioned requests could be fulfilled by yourself, then please make yourself known and we can discuss a potential agreement. Can you relate to Einstein? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart

...want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil [sic] code of faithfulness to more nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly’. I believe in equal responsibility and will be known by my own name, as I always have done. My life is my own and I intend to make the most of it. Does Amelia make your heart soar? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
Past-Time Lover: Cleopatra
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Cleopatra

...as I do – if not more. What benefits might our alliance bring to me and my many children? Be warned, I abhor betrayal, and crossing me is a deadly mistake. If you think you could treat me like the Queen I am, and honour me until your dying day, I will gladly join forces with you, ‘til death do us part. Is Cleopatra to die for? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...I am looking for: Someone with whom I could dream of a better, more egalitarian world. Someone, who, like me, would “imagine all the people, living life in peace”. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one! I really hope someday, you’ll join me and the world will live as one! Does Ludwik speak your language? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...aluminium and graphite are also used. Tool life is long compared with EDM and USM, since there is no appreciable tool wear. Tool material depends on component numbers, material and design, electrolyte composition and pressure, spark resistance, cost, etc. Most common electrolytes are sodium chloride (60–240 g l – 1) and sodium nitrate (120–480 g l –1), which...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...aluminium sections, bonded and riveted around a central transmission tunnel made from carbon fibre. At the front of the vehicle, a steel, aluminium and carbon fibre subframe carries the engine, transmission and front suspension. Engine control, transmission and braking all make extensive use of microelectronics. The Aston Martin V12 Vanquish was launched in 2001, and is...
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Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love
Society, Politics & Law

Charity begins at Homeland: The screen spies the CIA should love

...cast of Homeland] Dominic Lewis & Claire Danes in an event promoting Homeland, 2012 If you want to understand the politics of Homeland the first thing you should know is that the show’s creators, Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, formerly wrote the hit television series 24, a cultural artefact from the early days of the war on terror. In my opinion, 24 did more than any...
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...casts her more as a reader than a writer. The quotation is all the odder as in context it is a very sharp dig at the yawning pretensions of Miss Bingley, at that moment interrupting everyone else’s reading in a vain effort to attract the attention of Mr Darcy. Again, shift your gaze from Jane Austen’s face slightly to the left and you find a young woman in Regency...