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Better Than Home is the seventh solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Beth Hart. Hart's husband and her manager convinced her to work with the production team of Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens , whom she had met when she performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012.
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” — Robert Montgomery, American actor “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find ...
A second wind may come more readily at certain points of the circadian (24hr) biological clock than others.. Second wind (or third wind, fourth wind, etc.), a colloquial name for the scientific term wake maintenance zone, is a sleep phenomenon in which a person, after a prolonged period of staying awake, temporarily ceases to feel drowsy, often making it difficult to fall asleep when exhausted.
Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. [1] The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.
Irving locked himself in his room and wrote nonstop all night. As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep. He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the van Wart family over breakfast. [6] "Rip Van Winkle" was one of the first stories Irving proposed for his new book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
My father looked me over, and as he stood there for what felt like a very long time, I was sure he was going to hand me my head. And not on a platter. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," he said.
[4] [2] During the band's 1992–1993 Zoo TV Tour, Bono assumed a number of costumed stage personae in an attempt to be more lighthearted and escape the group's reputation of being overly serious and self-righteous. [55] Bono said: "All through the Eighties we tried to be ourselves and failed when the lights were on. Which is what set us up for ...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.