Bernstein had an affair with the wife of the British ambassador, while Ephron was pregnant with their second child. Heartburn is famously based on Nora Ephron’s own marriage to Carl Bernstein (of All the President’s Men fame). Cooking is impossible and the first meals we see eaten in the house are Chinese takeaway and pizza (eaten from the box, with the help of a brick trowel), while the couple bicker about the state of the house, the inadequacies of their Hungarian builder and Rachel’s dislike of the Washington social scene.įollowing the birth of their first child, things settle down, at least for a while. The walls are bare and hollow, the kitchen is only accessible by going out into the back garden and the roof constantly drips water. The house is something of a fixer-upper (“We got a good price on it… they had a sort of… fire….”, Rachel tells their friends). Cut to their wedding (where Rachel has to overcome severe cold feet before eventually saying ‘I do’), before moving swiftly to their new home in Washington. Mark responds that when they’re married he wants this once a week. PIzza – eaten with the aid of a bricklayer’s trowel
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Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, the few pleasantries she was afforded were nothing compared to freedom, a glimpse of which she encountered firsthand in Philadelphia. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. As he grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t get his arms around: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and eight slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. 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Culturally relevant teaching Finding ways to tackle that and keeping his tribes together in a strange environment presents another new and exciting challenge for Genghis Khan. The distances and terrain-the wide deserts, the impenetrable mountains-make it a difficult venture even for the legendary Mongolian speed of movement, but the greatest problem is that of the complex fortifications, a way of fighting wars of a settled urban population which the nomadic Mongolians had never come across. He is determined to travel to the land of the long-time enemy, the Chin and attack them there. But the task Genghis has set himself and them is formidable. 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