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By John Hackett

One day I was tuning up and down the radio dial as I drove down the Interstate. Time after time, I landed on talk shows featuring callers that were simply dismayed at the direction America is going.


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DEFINITION: (noun) Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity. SYNONYMS: resonance. USAGE: They had an excellent rapport and would never keep secrets from one another.

Goethals was a US army engineer who served as chief engineer of the Panama Canal. He found the difficulty of work on the canal increased by the climate, yellow fever, labor troubles, unexpected complications in building the locks, and crumbling substrata in the Culebra Cut. By taking personal interest in the men working on the canal, however, he created an atmosphere of cooperation and completed the project ahead of schedule. The Goethals Bridge, named in his honor, links what two cites?

The first Globe Theatre was an Elizabethan theatre where several of Shakespeare's plays were originally staged. It was built around 1598 in London's Bankside district, but it burned down in 1613, after a cannon shot during a performance of "Henry VIII" ignited the thatched roof of the gallery. It was rebuilt immediately, this time with a tiled roof, and reopened in the following July. Puritans closed it and all other theaters in 1642, and it was demolished soon after. Where is the modern Globe?

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

Venice stretches across numerous small islands in the Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea. Between the islands, there are about 150 narrow canals crossed by some 400 bridges. The Grand Canal, shaped like a reversed letter S, is the main traffic artery. Today a tourist, commercial, and industrial center, Venice was at its artistic peak during the Renaissance, and it owes its origin to the war refugees who sought safety on its islands in the late 7th century. What are traghetti?