#american-revolution

#american-revolution

Google has released a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people in the United States and Britain.Bard competes with similar technologies from Microsoft and its partner, the San Francisco start-up OpenAI.But Google has been cautious with its release as it tries to control the unexpected behavior exhibited by this kind of technology.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday into Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history.Built 25 years before the American Revolution, the original structure stood near the college campus of William & Mary.

Some years, my best books list falls into a pattern: like a year that's dominated by dystopian fiction or stand-out memoirs.But, as perhaps befits this hectic year, the best books I read in 2022 sprawl all over the place in subject and form.Here are 10 superb titles from 2022: Also a Poet is a moving account of Ada Calhoun's attempt to connect with her elusive father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl, by trying to complete his abandoned biography of the beloved New York poet, Frank O'Hara.

Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festival, food and frolic.We watch colorful parades in the morning, stuff ourselves in the afternoon and then retire to our couches to watch two teams of modern gladiators beat each other silly for the prize of a silver trophy.Traditions have evolved since Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the 1860s, but the sentiment has remained the same.

Ted Bell, a former award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director who abandoned Madison Avenue in his early 50s to recast himself as a best-selling novelist by writing and marketing his Alex Hawke spy thrillers, died on Jan. 20 in Hartford, Conn.He was 76.The cause was an intracerebral hemorrhage, a type of stroke, said Evelyn Lorentzen Bell, a former wife.

Hugh Hudson, a director whose first feature film, Chariots of Fire, won four Oscars in 1982, including for best picture, died on Friday in London.He was 86.His family announced the death to the British news media but did not cite a cause.Chariots of Fire, based on the true story of two British sprinters who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, was nominated for seven Oscars and won four, including for the composer Vangelis's musical score and for the screenplay by Colin Welland, as well as for costume design.