“Long before last Friday’s crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in the Mojave Desert, the economist Brent Lane had been thinking about failed missions and Sir Richard Branson, Virgin’s adventurous founder. “Lane, a professor of heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the director of the school’s Carolina Center for Competitive Economies, isn’t […]
Posts Tagged ‘sir walter raleigh’
Echoes of Sir Walter Raleigh in Mojave Desert crash
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged brent lane, richard branson, sir walter raleigh, unc chapel hill, virgin galactic on November 6, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
How did Sir Walter write like an early T.S. Eliot?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged corydon ivy, harvard gazette, sir walter raleigh, stephen greenblatt, t s eliot on June 22, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“….One of the ‘papers,’ as they called them in the big Cambridge exam, was on the period from 1569 to 1603. In the course of immersing myself in that brief period, I read the poetry of Sir Walter Ralegh, which amazed me — really amazed me. I couldn’t understand how someone in the 1590s had […]
No wonder he misplaced Sir Walter
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged michael kammen, mystic chords of memory, postmaster general james farley, roanoke island, sir walter raleigh on November 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“In 1937, Postmaster General James Farley dedicated a new post office in Arlington, Virginia, and managed to place Sir Walter Raleigh in the wrong place at the wrong time and also to locate Roanoke Island in Virginia rather than North Carolina. These lapses received front-page coverage…. “While gently chiding Farley, a New York Times editorial […]
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