Barbara Jean Feldhusen, 71, died Tuesday, November 28, just six weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. She was under the care of her goddaughter and Vantage Hospice in Katy, Texas, where she’d wintered for the last eight years. Born February 5, 1952 to Henry and Dorothy (Kuder) Feldhusen in Munising, Michigan, Barb’s four older brothers
The auction record for 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, famed for his royal portraits, could more than double early next year when Sotheby’s offers his painting Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain (1632), with an estimate in the region of $35m, during the auction house’s Old Masters sales. The painting shows Elisabeth of France, Queen
An anonymous reader shares a report: To wean their country off imported oil and gas, and in the hope of retiring dirty coal-fired power stations, China’s leaders have poured money into wind and solar energy. But they are also turning to one of the most sustainable forms of non-renewable power. Over the past decade China
I was privileged to have been raised in a family who prized the arts, including works from cultures that were not our own. (We are of European ancestry.) Among the art in my childhood home was a significant collection of masks, statues, figurines and other objects from mostly West African cultures. My father, who acquired
LawFlash December 01, 2023 In two recent judgments, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) mandated information access rights by independent vehicle repairers to vehicle data under Regulation (EU) 2018/858. The judgments are likely to facilitate access to vehicle data to independent vehicle repairers. Vehicle manufacturers will need to
Amsterdam Light Festival, the world’s most popular LEGO® exhibition and Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ – here’s what’s cool in Europe right now. ADVERTISEMENT December is finally here, but before you start panicking about buying Christmas presents or debating whether to watch Muppet Christmas Carol or Home Alone first, check out these exhibitions, films, festivals, TV
Symbols Richard Sproat Springer (2023) Linguists differ on what counts as writing. Inclusivists use the term to cover mathematical symbols and emoji, whereas exclusivists accept only symbol systems with a phonetic element, such as European alphabets and Chinese characters. Computational linguist Richard Sproat is an exclusivist. His ambitious, in-depth book is the first systematic study
Lithological characterization of the Menga stones The 32 analysed stones (24 orthostats, 5 capstones and 3 pillars) belong to 5 different lithological types (Figs. 1, 2, Table 1). We have identified a first group of bioclastic sandstones in a broad sense and another one of breccias. Bioclastic sandstones commonly show a significant amount of subrounded
The particularity of the current political moment can be seen if one compares the tag scene at the end of Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” with the one at the end of a film he made a decade ago, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” In the earlier one, Scorsese implicates the world at large
Canadians want an end to the era of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau according to an increasing number of polls and a recent petition calling for a vote of non-confidence against his minority government in the Canadian House of Commons. Signed by over 129,000 Canadians, petition e-4701 is sponsored by Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri, who represents