In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis ...

In this WWII prison-camp escape action-film and box-office champ from John Sturges - it was a critically-acclaimed, epic film about the building of a tunnel in 1943 for a 'great escape' (based on a ...

Princeton University economist Angus Deaton has written an elegant, wide-ranging, and fascinating book on the history of U.S. and global progress in health and material well-being from prehistory to ...

(KNSI) — Bookworms ages 13 and up can get lost in a good book and win prizes with the Great River Regional Library’s 2025 ...

It was the mass escape of Allied soldiers from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III, the story of which was forever immortalised in the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.

“A hit with the critics and at the box office, The Great Escape is for many the great ‘escape’ film.” The Virgin Film Guide Having featured a strong ensemble cast for his popular western The ...

He has a new book out right now, and it’s called Grandpa’s Great Escape! Jack’s poor Grandpa is locked up in a horrible old folk’s home, Twilight Towers, thanks to the horrible old Matron, Miss Swine, ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...