現代では、西洋社会を中心に、多くの女性が化粧同様定期的に腋毛を剃るのが習慣となっている。
それまでは、女性が頭髪、眉毛、まつげを除くほぼ全身の体毛を剃っていたローマ帝国時代を除き、長年にわたり腋毛を剃る習慣がなかったものの、1915年にアメリカの女性向けファッション誌"Harper's Bazaar"に掲載された広告に記載された、"Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair"(サマードレスとモダンダンスには、好ましくない毛の除去が必要)という一文が火付け役になり、その後安全カミソリの発明とともに、腋毛の剃毛が一般化していったとされている。
好き嫌いにかかわらず、今日、私たちの生活の少なくとも1部はグーグル経済にかかわっている。
一般的なサイトではトラフィックの4分の1から半分がグーグル検索からのものだ。
SEO (検索エンジン最適化)と呼ばれるひとつの業界があり、グーグル検索においてサイトが上位に来るように手伝っている。
ページランクは評判を扱う金本位制なのだ。
今夜も"The Age of Fable"を読んで、ギリシャ神話を味わいながら眠りにつこうと思っています。
ギリシャ神話は、現代映画にも、現代小説にも出てくるからね。
ギリシャ神話を知らないと、欧米の文学や文化が解らないことになるのですよ。
それほど、欧米の知識人はギリシャ神話やローマ神話を学校で勉強しているのです。
今夜も"The Age of Fable"を読んで、ギリシャ神話を味わいながら眠りにつこうと思っています。
ギリシャ神話は、現代映画にも、現代小説にも出てくるからね。
ギリシャ神話を知らないと、欧米の文学や文化が解らないことになるのですよ。
それほど、欧米の知識人はギリシャ神話やローマ神話を学校で勉強しているのです。
All of the Warren Commission's records were submitted to the National Archives in 1964.
The unpublished portion of those records was initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039) under a general National Archives policy that applied to all federal investigations by the executive branch of government, a period "intended to serve as protection for innocent persons who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants in the case.”
The 75-year rule no longer exists, supplanted by the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 and the JFK Records Act of 1992. By 1992, 98% of the Warren Commission records had been released to the public.
Six years later, at the conclusion of the Assassination Records Review Board's work, all Warren Commission records, except those records that contained tax return information, were available to the public with only minor redactions.
The remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act.
The Kennedy autopsy photographs and X-rays were never part of the Warren Commission records and were deeded separately to the National Archives by the Kennedy family in 1966 under restricted conditions.
Several pieces of evidence and documentation are described to have been lost, cleaned, or missing from the original chain of evidence (e.g., limousine cleaned out on November 24, Connally's clothing cleaned and pressed, Oswald's military intelligence file destroyed in 1973, Connally's Stetson hat and shirt sleeve gold cufflink missing).
Jackie Kennedy's blood-splattered pink and navy Chanel suit that she wore on the day of the assassination is in climate controlled storage in the National Archives.
Jackie wore the suit for the remainder of the day, stating "I want them to see what they have done to Jack" when asked aboard Air Force One to change into another outfit.
Not included in the National Archives are the white gloves and pink pillbox hat she was wearing.
SOURCE: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy"
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This 89-minute documentary makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament. One of the CIA analysts says that a terrorist talked about detonating a nuclear bomb before the 9-11. In the past several nuclear weapons went down to the sea bottom by accidents or mistakes. Most of those weapons have never been recovered.
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