BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS November, 2014 The line was, “Martha Clark Kent, are you listening to what I’m saying?” It was scripted for Glenn Ford, playing a Kansas farmer named Jonathan Kent in the 1978 movie Superman. A spaceship containing the baby
JONATHAN MANTHORPE November 12, 2014 It had been a tough day interviewing victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities, and it was with great relief that I slumped down in a chair in the hotel bar in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, and ordered a
The deep-space probe Rosetta set its lander Philae astride a comet today, a historic feat for the European Space Agency — and for humanity. At 16:03 GMT November 12, the agency announced, scientists in ESA stations in Argentina, Spain and Germany had received word
From the archives of Facts and Opinions, 2013-2016: On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent on the Western Front. The end of the Great War was, so many participants swore, surely the end of all wars.
On November 11, 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent on the Western Front. The end of the Great War was, so many participants swore, surely the end of all wars. It was, of course, hubris; less than a generation
By Janna Thompson, La Trobe UniversityNovember 11, 2014 Remembrance Day is an occasion when people are supposed to remember and honour those who died in their nation’s wars. But why should we believe that this obligation exists? The dead are dead. They
Germany, and much of the world, this weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It remains the singular event to symbolize the end of the Cold War. It marked the end of the Iron Curtain between
Franklin Expedition: “Heart and soul” of HMS Erebus revived By F&O staff Canada’s government has released images of the bell from HMS Erebus, the doomed ship from Britain’s legendary Franklin Expedition, found in Nunavut territory in September. Erebus was named after the Greek
A quarter century ago the Berlin Wall came crashing down, taking the post-WW II world order with it. Beneath all the headlines, the predictions and recapitulations, recriminations and geopolitical events of the last 25 years can be found signals of profound change.
Shari Lewis made her mark as a talented ventriloquist with a sock puppet named Lamb Chop. But as Arts columnist Brian Brennan discovered when he interviewed her, Lewis had much more going for her talentwise than ventriloquism. An excerpt of Brennan’s
