![]() ![]() Thornton gained access to remote corners of racetrack life off limits to the general public. In fifteen years as a racing reporter and press box personality, T.D. They are the unseen supporting cast for a $15 billion betting industry. These bit players are not just cogs of a single, struggling horse track. These days "Sufferin' Downs" is where grizzled Thoroughbreds come to end their careers, hopeful young jockeys aspire against daunting odds to begin them, and diehard fans cheer, curse and gamble on the entire fascinating spectacle. Now the blue-collar East Boston track is one of many that have fallen on hard times. Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Suffolk Downs, a once-proud racecourse graced in its glory years by boisterous throngs and champions such as Seabiscuit. ![]() The great myth of horse racing is that the game is the regal and royal Sport of Kings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though to be fair Frey had presented the book initially as a novel, publishers only developed interest in it after it was described as a true story, looking to meet the reading public’s hunger for hard-luck memoirs. The 19th-century American humorist Josh Billings once said “There are some people who are so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying” His observation might well have described writer James Frey, who fabricated large parts of his so-called memoir, A Million Little Pieces, a gritty account of his struggles with alcohol and drug addiction. ![]() Here are five stunning examples of literary fraud. But the past few decades have seen an increase in an entirely different category of memoir-the hoax, where the truth, if it’s even present, is of little consequence. The urge to slip in embellishments or heighten a dramatic arc through exaggeration can be hard to resist, especially when aiming for a compelling life story. Telling the unvarnished truth in an autobiography or memoir is no small feat. ![]() ![]() ![]() The St Mary Mead of Katherine Grey is in Kent. In the BBC Miss Marple TV adaptation of Nemesis, a letter from Mr Rafiel's solicitors indicate that St Mary Mead is located in the (also fictional) county of Middleshire. ![]() Miss Marple's St Mary Mead is described in The Murder at the Vicarage as being in the fictional county of Downshire, but in the later novel The Body in the Library Downshire has become Radfordshire. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage. In that novel, St Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. ![]() The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. St Mary Mead is a fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The house on the left features as the home of Miss Jane Marple (as played by Joan Hickson) in St Mary Mead. ![]() ![]() The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father.Īs Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. ![]() Her works carry a strong homoerotic thread. ![]() When two young men meet on a train, there's nothing they fear to say. Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were on the James, the following was recorded ![]() As they approached New England, an unusually powerful early season hurricane struck, known as the "Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635", and the James and the Angel Gabriel were forced to ride it out just off the coast of modern-day Hampton, New Hampshire. The sinking occurred during the middle of the Great Migration.įrom England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined the James, the Elizabeth (Bess), the Mary and the Diligence. She sank in a storm off Pemaquid Point, near the newly established town of Bristol, Maine, on August 15, 1635. ![]() She was commissioned for Sir Walter Raleigh's last expedition to America in 1617. The Angel Gabriel was a 240 ton English passenger galleon. ![]() ![]() They managed to earn a meagre income, but little of it came from the shop Joseph received an unsteady amount of money from playing professional cricket for the Kent county team. An inheritance had allowed them to purchase a shop in which they sold china and sporting goods, although it was never prosperous: the stock was old and worn out, and the location was poor. ![]() The family was of the impoverished lower-middle-class. Called "Bertie" in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells (a former domestic gardener, and at the time shopkeeper and amateur cricketer) and his wife Sarah Neal (a former domestic servant). Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 47 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September, 1866. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the future of the Euro, inequality in China, or the condition of the American manufacturing industry here in the United States- Economics: The User’s Guide is a concise and expertly crafted guide to economic fundamentals that offers a clear and accurate picture of the global economy and how and why it affects our daily lives. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need to understand our increasingly global and interconnected world often driven by economics. Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why there is no one way to explain economic behavior. ![]() ![]() Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works-in real-world terms. In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. ![]() From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist-a highly original guide to the global economy. ![]() ![]() She was shocked to learn that she was feeding her baby not just milk but also fire retardants and a whole host of other chemicals, all ingested throughout her life and stored in her breast tissue. So what makes breasts so mercurial - and so vulnerable?" As part of the research for this book, science journalist Florence Williams underwent tests on her own breasts and breast milk. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle against breast cancer - even among men. ![]() Breasts are getting bigger, developing earlier and attracting newfangled chemicals. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. "Feted and fetishised, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. ![]() Print Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History ![]() ![]() ![]() On TV he also made guest appearances on series including "In the Heat of the Night," "Dream On," "Living Single" and "Homicide: Life on the Street." In 1988 Mario Van Peebles starred in the brief NBC sitcom "Sonny Spoon," about a private detective, in which his father was also a series regular as the private eye's bar-owning father. Melvin Van Peebles also acted in the work of others, appearing in the 1991 feature comedy "True Identity" Reginald Hudlin's Eddie Murphy vehicle "Boomerang" (1992) big-budget Arnold Schwarzenegger action film "Last Action Hero" (1993) Charlie Sheen action film "Terminal Velocity" (1994) 2003 comedy "The Hebrew Hammer," in which Melvin reprised the role of Sweetback and Mario also appeared and Tina Gordon Chism's 2013 romantic comedy "Peeples," in which he played Grandpa Peeples. Melvin appeared in the 1993 Mario Van Peebles-directed "Posse," in which Mario also starred, as well as in Mario's Black Panther drama "Panther" (1995), with Melvin adapting the script from his own novel, the Mario Van Peebles-directed "Love Kills (1998) and the Mario-directed "Redemption Road" (2010). A post shared by Criterion Collection and Mario Van Peebles teamed on the 1989 film "Identity Crisis," with Melvin directing and Mario scripting and starring as a rapper possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer. ![]() |