United has PayPal QR codes for in-flight payments
United Airlines is partnering with PayPal to make contactless in-flight purchases even though no Wi-Fi is available, World Airline News reported on Wednesday (October 6th). Beginning in November, United customers on select flights can show a flight attendant a PayPal QR code and use it to purchase snacks and other items, according to the report. …
Mermaid Legends Swim In View at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Photo Exhibit | Culture & Leisure
Posted on October 6, 2021 | 2:22 p.m. The mermaid model’s job is not an easy job. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will reopen its exhibition Mermaids: Visualizing the Myths and Legends through Photography, 16 images printed on canvas by Ralph Clevenger and friends, from November 11 to April 30 at the museum, …
Throwback Thursday – Charles Allen Smart: Novelist | Connect
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ohio University welcomed a writer-in-residence. Charles Allen Smart was a renowned author when he started OU. His greatest claim to fame was his book “RFD”, an autobiographical work about the days when the city dweller Smart inherited a farm in Chillicothe, Ohio. The book was not written in …
French company uses enzymes to recycle one of the most common single-use plastics
Because single-use plastics are largely derived from petroleum, by 2050 plastics could account for 20% of the world’s annual oil consumption. Reducing our dependence on plastics and finding ways to reuse the plastic already in the world could significantly reduce emissions. At present, only about 15% of all plastics around the world are collected for …
Authors from literary families tell the stories behind their stories
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I have always been intrigued by literary families with more than one author published. What must it be like to be able to pick up the phone and discuss the writing process, the plot, and the character? Share …
Breaking Travel News investigates Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, Dubai | To concentrate
When backpacking the world was still a unique experience, when there were roads less traveled and places on the map yet to be explored, Lonely Planet guides were invaluable. They were filled with lots of information on where to stay, what to eat and when to visit. A tip that was repeated over and over …
Blithe Spirit Show for Little Theater of Tuscarawas Countyu
The Little Theater of Tuscarawas County will open its season with the famous classic “Blithe Spirit”, directed by Tamora Benson. Written by British playwright Noel Coward, “Blithe Spirit” was first performed in the West End in 1941, where it lasted a record 1,997 performances before moving to Broadway later that year. The plot centers on …
Wole Soyinka: Books that really change the world?
Who will watch the observers, indeed? There are direct echoes of Swift’s cannibalism in Soyinka’s Chronicles, where one of the central characters, a surgeon called Dr Menka, who spends his days caring for the mutilated victims of violence endemic to the Jos region, finds out. a thriving underground market for parts of the human body …
In electoral terms, Martín Guzmán demanded that Congress approve his plan to reactivate the mortgage loan
During the 2021 annual congress of the Argentine House of Construction (Camarco), the Minister of the Economy Martin guzman He said he hopes that a draft that the ruling party sent to the Chamber of Deputies last year will be approved soon and whose legislative process has not flourished. On the same day, the government …
Who will win the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Haruki Murakami (T-shirt anthologue; odds 5-1) Ko Un (South Korean poet canceled; odds 34-1) Here are two things I believe. The first is that this whole Sally Rooney bucket hat thing was concocted as a psychological operation by Penguin Random House – which somehow persuaded Farrar, Straus and Giroux that literary hat making was the …