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August 4, 1930 12:00 AM GMT-4
Chancellor Heinrich Brüning dared to do last week that which no German statesman has dared since the days of “The Iron Chancellor,” Prince von Bismarck. When Reichstag deputies would not vote the money Bismarck wanted, he got it by writing out a decree which his King (whom he made Kaiser Wilhelm I) hastened to sign. Fortnight ago the new iron chancellor, who won the “Iron Cross” during the War and was hand-picked for his mettle by old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME, April 7).
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8.
Before Arya swooped in to save the day by stabbing the Night King with her Valyrian steel dagger in “The Long Night” episode of Game of Thrones, Bran Stark spent some time immersed in one of his greensight visions.
“I’m going to go now,” he told Theon before warging into a flock of crows to keep an eye on the battle.
General Motors announced on Monday that it’s recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles that may experience a sudden loss of electric power steering. GM’s new recall comes after 2.6 million vehicles were recalled earlier this year for ignition-switch problems linked to 13 deaths.
GM models involved in the new recall include Chevy Malibus, HHRs and Cobalts, Saturn Auras and IONs, as well as Pontiac G6s from model years 2004 to 2010.
In the early years, the Father’s Day gifts in our house were spectacular affairs—giant clusters of beads, feathers and glitter on little wooden pedestals, like Oscar statuettes for alien birds. Then came the handprints on plates and picture frames that say pappa spelled the Swedish way with a few umlauts sprinkled in like textual seasoning. After two kids and 14 years of marriage, we had dozens of these Father’s and Mother’s Day creations—accolades from small people who didn’t know yet how to zip up their own coats, much less what they were writing on those cards.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
The seventh chapter of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, titled "The Captain's Log," chronicles the fate of the crew of the doomed merchant ship the Demeter through a series of logbook entries detailing the vessel's disastrous voyage from the Black Sea port of Varna to Whitby, England.
Unaware that Dracula is onboard, the captain writes how, over the course of their journey, crew members went missing until just he and the first mate were left on the Demeter.
After having a baby in August 2020, Loren Jerae and her partner realized that quitting her job to stay at home with the baby would be more affordable than paying for daycare in a big city like Charlotte, NC.
But the switch was an adjustment. “We took a pay cut,” Jerae told TIME. “I stopped working and then we were on a single income household and so from there, it was just what ways can we cut back?
Alberto KordaChe Guevara, in 1960.
Ernesto “Che” Guevera has morphed from historical figure to historic icon since he was hunted down and killed by U.S.-trained Bolivian forces in 1967. How much of the Argentine Marxist’s story is fact, and how much is fantasy? More vitally, what did the mission to capture him reveal about the U.S. military and its operations with allied forces? What, if anything, can that experience teach us about our efforts in Afghanistan and similar enterprises?
The reality star said this during his post-eviction interview with the show's host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, speaking about his vile and worrisome comment regarding women. He noted that he does not know what to do following his eviction and 'where to go from here' because he has now been blacklisted by brands for his remarks. Seyi also stressed that he's hoping for the best and keeping his fingers crossed that everyone would forgive him for his transgressions and that brands would look beyond his statements and work with him again.
As election year politics heat up, Donald Trump proclaims that he can “Make America Great Again” and Joe Biden promises a brighter future, but a majority of Americans tell pollsters they think the U.S. is in decline. In 1941, on the eve of World War II, Time/Life publisher proclaimed “the American Century” and by 1945 the U.S. was the pre-eminent global power. But after eight decades, is it over?
Americans have a long history of worrying about our decline.
When Karlesha Thurman posted a photo of herself breastfeeding during her college graduation ceremony, she never expected to stir up a national controversy about breastfeeding and race. She was met with a flurry of negative comments about her decision to nurse her daughter in public.
“I honestly thought that as a society, people were more understanding of breast-feeding,” Thurman, 25, told the Today Show. “It’s not disgusting, it’s not a bad thing, it’s not a negative thing.