Renaissance reaches out to city BRISTOL The company picked to redevelop the former mall site downtown is kicking off its effort to reach out to the community.
THE SCARLET CONTESSA: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance Historical fiction is my genre of choice, and lately Ive found myself in historical England --- a lot. So it was refreshing to pick up Jeanne Kalogridiss THE SCARLET CONTESSA and be transplanted to Renaissance Italy, an Italy full of intrigue, cruel individuals and ruthless royals.
Nuclear Reactor Renaissance More than half a century ago, the first commercial nuclear power reactors went critical in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the decades since, technology has brought us 3-billion-transistor chips, manned spaceflight, and violin-playing robots.