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After last night’s primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, Senator Barack Obama gained enough delegates to put him only 183 away, including pledged superdelegates, from securing the democratic nomination. Senator Hillary Clinton needs 324.5, including her pledged superdelegates, which is mathematically impossible. Yet, on her way to West Virginia, where she has vowed to continue campaigning, she added an appearance to her already hectic schedule.
Archive for May 7th, 2008
Clinton and Obama: Is it over yet?
Posted by draabe on 7 May, 2008
Posted in POLITICS | Tagged: clinton, clinton and obama, democratic primary, NEWS, obama, POLITICS | Leave a Comment »
And then there was Tesla…
Posted by draabe on 7 May, 2008
“God said let Tesla be…and all was light.”
- B.A. Behrendt
It is rumored that in 1899, then U.S. Patent Commissioner Charles H. Duell said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Samantha Hunt’s new novel creatively juxtaposes this idea with its own clever title, The Invention of Everything Else. Part history, part love story, the novel reclaims the last days of Nikola Tesla, the idiosyncratic engineer/inventor of alternating current electricity. Upon this otherwise mundane week in history, Hunt imposes an unlikely friendship between Tesla and a chambermaid, a time machine and a man who might be from the future. The result is magical — (or is it just science?).
Posted in BOOKS | Tagged: Add new tag, book review, Nikola Tesla, Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else | Leave a Comment »
