In 1938, Warner Brothers writer Ben Hardaway directed a short film featuring a very sneaky rabbit. The cartoon was called Porky’s Hare Hunt, but the bunny that starred in it didn’t have a name. So, the best creative minds in the business got together and dubbed the up-and-coming star “Happy Rabbit.”From a post at Neatorama about interesting moments in the history of editing, where you will also discover that Catch-22 was originally entitled Catch-18.
Ben Hardaway, whose nickname was Bugs, also directed he next short starring Happy Rabbit. As the animators drew up early image for the film, one of them labeled a sketch of the rabbit “Bugs’ Bunny,” to make it clear that the drawing was part of Hardaway’s project. The label was mistaken for the name of the character, and soon enough, all the animators were calling Happy Rabbit “Bugs Bunny."
Airlines are reinvigorating first class as deep-pocketed customers embrace travel again, taking luxury to new heights up in the sky.First-class cabins are increasingly resembling mini hotel rooms, with sofas, double beds, televisions, desks, wardrobes, minibars and in some cases, walk-in showers. The more creative, the better. You can even book a chef...Even with first class fares going for more than 10 times as much as standard economy seats, demand is there - either for bookings with cash or the rare opportunity to use up miles accumulated on credit cards during the pandemic...A return Sydney-Los Angeles flight in Qantas first class costs almost $18,000, while Frankfurt-Tokyo on Lufthansa is about $15,000. That’s still significantly less that what some ultra-wealthy travelers fork out for private jets, a segment that experienced a boost during the pandemic as people looked to avoid crowds and virus-related restrictions...Individual cabins currently feature armchairs and a 212-centimeter (83 inches) flat bed with memory foam mattress, as well as cotton throws, a duvet and pillow menu.
Year
|
Author
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Title
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1990 ( of 26)
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Ludlum
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The Bourne Identity
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Ludlum
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The Parsifal Mosaic
|
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1991 (52)
|
Colin Watson
|
Hopjoy was Here
|
Gerrold
|
The Man Who Folded Himself
|
|
Marquez
|
One Hundred Years of
Solitude
|
|
1992 (63)
|
Boyer&Nissenbaum
|
Salem Possessed
|
Weisman
|
Witchcraft, Magic and
Religion in 17th century Massachusetts.
|
|
Frederic
|
The Damnation of Theron
Ware
|
|
LeCarre
|
The Secret Pilgrim
|
|
Warren
|
Brother to Dragons
|
|
Clarke
|
Childhood's End
|
|
1993 (39)
|
None
|
|
1994 (44)
|
None
|
|
1995 (38)
|
Dickson
|
And So To Murder
|
Paulson
|
Winterdance
|
|
Kersten
|
The Jesus Conspiracy
|
|
Huyghe
|
Columbus Was Last
|
|
Holand
|
Norse Discoveries &
Explorations in America 982-1362
|
|
1996 (28)
|
Bester
|
The Stars My Destination
|
Fowles
|
A Maggot
|
|
Guthrie
|
The Big Sky
|
|
1997 (8)
|
None
|
|
1998 (13)
|
Krakauer
|
Into Thin Air
|
Wahlgren
|
The Vikings and
America
|
|
1999 (16)
|
Jewett
|
The country of the Pointed
Firs
|
Faulkner
|
Absalom Absalom (turgid and
gloomy)
|
|
Hardy and Shaffer
|
The Wicker Man
|
|
2000 (4)
|
Teale, Edwin Way
|
A Naturalist Buys an Old
Farm
|
2001 (8)
|
Ryan & Pittman
|
Noah's Flood
|
Lansing
|
Endurance
|
|
Mowat
|
The Alban Quest
|
|
2002 (19)
|
None
|
|
2003 (36)
|
Brown
|
Angels and Demons
|
Hosseini
|
The Kite Runner
|
|
Warren
|
All the Kings Men
|
|
2004 (49)
|
Menzies
|
1421 The Year China
Discovered America
|
Wodehouse
|
Bertie Wooster Sees It
Through
|
|
Brown
|
Da Vinci Code
|
|
Hoffer
|
The True Believer
|
|
2005 (45)
|
Whitaker
|
The Mapmaker’s Wife
|
Woodham-Smith
|
The Reason Why [Crimea,
Light Brigade]
|
|
Ferguson
|
Naked to Mine Enemies,
Volumes 1 and 2
|
|
Lapham
|
Gag Rule. On the suppression of dissent
|
|
Powell
|
Bring Out Your Dead
|
|
2006 (35)
|
Grogan
|
Marley and Me
|
Hanson
|
Confident Hope of a Miracle
|
|
Bamford
|
A Pretext for War
|
|
Needham
|
Science and Civilisation in
China, Vol IV: 3
|
|
Wright
|
The Looming Tower; Al-Qaeda
and the Road to 9/11
|
|
Ryan
|
The Prize Winner of
Defiance, Ohio
|
|
2007 (29)
|
Harris
|
Letter to a Christian
Nation
|
Setterfield
|
The Thirteenth Tale
|
|
Kinzer
|
Overthrow. America’s
Century of Regime Change (skimmed)
|
|
Fothergill
|
Planet Earth
|
|
Shorto
|
The Island at the Center of
the World [Manhattan]
|
|
McCarthy
|
The Road
|
|
Smith
|
When the Cheering Stopped
|
|
McCarthy
|
No Country for Old Men
|
|
2008 (30)
|
Hitchens
|
God is Not Great
|
Nouvian
|
The Deep
|
|
Ballesta & Deschamp
|
Planet Ocean
|
|
Corrie
|
Let Me Stand Alone
|
|
Marent
|
Butterfly
|
|
McCarthy
|
Blood Meridian
|
|
Weiner
|
Legacy of Ashes
|
|
Winchester
|
Krakatoa; the Day the World
Exploded
|
|
Schooler
|
Last Shot
|
|
2009 (31)
|
Wilson
|
How Jesus Became Christian
|
Ehrman
|
Misquoting Jesus
|
|
Keys
|
Catastrophe
|
|
Zuckerman
|
Society without God
|
|
Nasrecki
|
The Smaller Majority
(nature photos)
|
|
2010 (49)
|
Pears
|
An Instance of the
Fingerpost
|
Nicholls
|
Paradise Found: Nature in
America at the time of discovery
|
|
Van Allsburg
|
The Mysteries of Harris
Burdick
|
|
Ludlum
|
The Bourne Identity
|
|
Lester
|
The Fourth Part of the
World
|
|
Gilder
|
Heavenly Intrigue [Kepler
and Brahe]
|
|
Grann
|
The Lost City of Z
|
|
Holmes
|
The Age of Wonder
|
|
Bergreen
|
Over the Edge of the World
[Magellan]
|
|
2011 (21)
|
Meldahl
|
Hard Road West
|
Gaiman
|
Coraline
|
|
Winchester, Simon
|
The Alice Behind Wonderland
|
|
Severin
|
The Brendan Voyage
|
|
Seuss
|
The Bippolo Seed and Other
Stories
|
|
Bryson
|
The Mother Tongue: English
and how it got that way
|
|
Cohen
|
The Tree Army; a pictorial
history of the CCC, 1933-1942
|
|
2012 (18)
|
Mann
|
1491
|
Millard
|
Destiny of the Republic
[bio James Garfield]
|
|
Menzies
|
1434; The Year a
Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy…
|
|
Moon
|
Blue Highways
|
|
Feldman
|
When the Mississippi Ran
Backwards
|
|
2013 (21)
|
Peskov
|
Lost in the Taiga
|
Mitchell
|
Cloud Atlas
|
|
Mitchell
|
The Thousand Autumns of
Jacob DeZoet
|
|
2014 (21)
|
Faulkner
|
As I Lay Dying
|
