quote [ The a-maize-ing history of getting lost among the stalks. ]

quote [ ?Make films about the people, they said?, Jean-Luc Godard once quipped, ?but The Crowd had already been made, so why remake it?? Gideon Leek rewatches King Vidor?s classic, in which a young man with big dreams moves to New York City and becomes an identical cog who learns to love the machine of modernity. ]

quote [ Pass the vinaigrette! No, not the salad dressing ? we?re talking about the vinaigre de toilette. You?re forgiven for the confusion, being born in the wrong century and all. Let?s rewind about 150 years when a vinaigrette once commonly referred to a small container for smelling salts or aromatic vinegar that were used to cover unpleasant smells. ]

quote [ On the afternoon of August 16, 1956, 17-year-old Larry Kempton of Leona Valley was driving with his mother, Bernice, along Palmdale Boulevard, just west of 10th Street West, when a rocket suddenly exploded in front of their car. ]

quote [ Japan?s socialist movement took shape in the face of brutal repression as the country embarked on a path toward imperialist expansion. Against the odds, Japanese socialists built a political force that could challenge the new capitalist order. ]

quote [ A man who ?believed in nothing, not even himself?, Henri Rochefort is now a minor footnote in the annals of modern journalism. However, at the height of his notoriety, in the late 1860s and early 1870s, his writings, political activities, imprisonments, and escapes were the stuff of newspaper gossip around the world. How did a self-described ?errant journalist and literary poacher? rise to power on the wings of sarcasm and ridicule to reshape France?s political landscape? Vlad Solomon explores the life and times of this populist forerunner. ]

quote [ A new book charts the history of pet cemeteries and honors the universal experience of grieving an animal companion ]

quote [ We?ll demonstrate how standard packaging works in

Canada, representing North America
The UK, also representing some European countries ]

quote [ A podcast about American Empire. ]

quote [ This strange looking bike with an enormous chain wheel was designed for speed, and speed it did achieve. On July 19, 1962, French cyclist José Meiffret blazed down the Autobahn near Friedburg Germany on this very bike at an incredible speed of 204 km/h (127 mph), thus becoming the first cyclist to breach the 200 km/h barrier. ]