by Brian Crawford | Jun 3, 2010 | International Business
A trip to Mars? Today, an international team of scientists (an international six-man crew consisting of one Russian, one Frenchman, one Italian-Colombian and one Chinese) was been locked into a set of windowless steel capsules for 520 days to take part in a simulation...
by Brian Crawford | May 5, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
Today is Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday that takes place annually on the fifth of May. Here in the United States Cinco de Mayo is widely celebrated, even by those not of Mexican or Mexican-American origin – this evening great numbers of people will be eating...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 21, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
This weekend we’re experiencing the Vernal Equinox; one of two times of the year when the hours of light in the day are equal to the hours of darkness at nighttime (the term “equinox” is derived from the Latin aequus, meaning equal, and nox, meaning...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 14, 2010 | International Business, Language and Culture
St. Patrick’s Day has arrived, and once again many of my friends in the United States are getting ready for the day’s celebrations. One friend is currently in Savannah, home of the second largest St. Patrick’s Day event in the country. Friends are...
