78 78s - In Search Of Lost Time - is a streaming mix of beautiful 78s from around the world, collected and curated by Ian Nagoski. "I started sifting through boxes of junky old 78s that no one else wanted about 15 years ago, and almost right away, I made a rule: Anything that wasn't in English, buy it."
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posted by carter
on Jan 29, 2012 -
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The Guardian ran a series of articles looking at the state of high-speed rail travel today. France intends to
double its length of track over the next decade, and China is planning
a massive rail-building programme, including a high-speed line which will halve the travel time between Beijing and Shanghai to 4 hours.
In Germany, domestic air travel is rapidly going extinct, and Spain's network has made
day trips between Madrid and Barcelona a possibility. The USA, which has long neglected its rail network, is
planning up to 10 high-speed lines. Meanwhile, Britain's only high-speed line goes to France, but there is talk of
a 250mph line from London to Birmingham and beyond, possibly by the early 2020s. Meanwhile, the CEO of France's rail operator, SNCF,
weighs in on what the UK should do.
posted by acb
on Aug 7, 2009 -
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The world's
oldest family companies start with a 1,400 year old
Japanese family business that has always built Buddhist temples. On the corporation side, only one of the
great chartered companies survives, Canada's Hudson Bay Company, founded in
1670, and now a large retailer, though there may be
much older corporations. There is even a club with an interesting web site,
Les Hénokien, for companies that are over 300 years old. If companies aren't your thing, there is always the world's
oldest restaurant in Spain.
posted by blahblahblah
on Sep 28, 2005 -
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