Unless you are very young, or were raised by wolves in the heart of the wilderness, you have heard of the bestselling novel, turned big screen movie, Gone With the Wind. But do you know anything about the book’s author, Margaret Mitchell? Her home town was Atlanta, Georgia, where she grew up in a family of attorneys. She stayed living in her childhood city of Atlanta with her husband in a cramped one bedroom apartment that she called, “the dump”(source:Joanna Arietta, director of historic houses for the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell House). She not only wrote a bestselling novel, in their small living space, her only published novel, but she also won the Pulitzer Prize in…

By Mohammed Abbas and Alessandra Prentice LONDON |         Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:20pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/26/uk-britain-bigben-queen-idUKBRE85P0O220120626 LONDON (Reuters) – It’s one of the most famous names in the world, up there with the Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty – but now London’s Big Ben clock tower is to be renamed Elizabeth Tower to mark the queen’s 60th year on the British throne. The announcement on Tuesday followed four days of celebrations earlier this month to mark 86-year-old Queen’s Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. The landmark, part of Britain’s Houses of Parliament, is officially called the Clock Tower but is commonly known as Big Ben, the name of the giant bell in the…

July 1, 2012 will mark the 15th anniversary of Hong Kong’s being handed over to China. Hong Kong, now called a Special Administrative Region (SAR), that belonged to Britian from  (1950s – 1997), is in a unique relationship to China in that it is semiautonomous. It has tasted freedom and has not forgotten the Chinese Government’s brutal crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests on June 4 of 1989. In fact, Hong Kong is the only place in China allowed to hold peaceful assemblies to honor the students and citizens that were killed in the supression of the Tiananmen Square protests. In the Series: Brookings Northeast Asia Commentary   |Number 25 of 25  we find a curent…

Carl Jung Biography Motto: “Thank God I am Jung and not Jungian” (C.G. Jung) Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a significant contribution to the psychoanalytical movement and is generally considered as the prototype of the dissident through the impact of his scission and the amplification of the movement he created in his turn (analytical psychology). Jung was the son of a Swiss reverend. He completed his medical studies, specialized in psychiatry and joined the staff of Burgholzli, the renowned psychiatric hospital in Zurich, run at that time by the famous Dr. Eugen Bleuler. In 1902-1903 he attended a traineeship in Paris with Pierre Janet, and then returned to Zurich and…

CHAPTER 1, Section D of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams That a dream fades away in the morning is proverbial. It is, indeed, possible to recall it. For we know the dream, of course, only by recalling it after waking; but we very often believe that we remember it incompletely, that during the night there was more of it than we remember. We may observe how the memory of a dream which in the morning was still vivid fades in the course of the day, leaving only a few trifling remnants. We are often aware that we have been dreaming, but we do not know of what we have dreamed; and…

With New TV Doc Deadline Actor-director Robert Redford will revisit the Watergate scandal, the subject of his 1976 film “All The President’s Men,” with a retrospective documentary from his new company Sundance Productions, reports Deadline.com. The two-hour documentary, “All The President’s Men Revisited,” will be broadcast on Discovery Channel worldwide. The project marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark conspiracy that took down the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Redford, who played Bob Woodward in “All the President’s Men” opposite Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein, will narrate the documentary. The 1976 feature film was directed by Alan J. Pakula. In a statement, Redford said: “Unique and artful stories have…

Jun 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was…