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Originals 3 The word "entrepreneur" was coined by Richard Cantillon, meaning "someone who takes risks." One of the four poor students who founded Warby Parker, Neil Blumenthal, said they wouldn't drop out of school. "We're not sure it's a good idea, and we don't know if we will succeed. We're working on it in our spare time." Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng found entrepreneurs who keep their original...

Originals 2 The problem with defaults Michael Housman found buying a PC, Internet Explorer is built into Windows. If one buys a Mac, it comes with Safari. But if you choose to use Firefox or Chrome, you are not accepting default. "Accepting the default is easy, but it doesn't ask us to look at new ways of doing things." (接受任何“預設”都很簡單; 但是預設並不會導致我們以新的眼光來看待事物.) Dave Gil...

Originals 1 Warby Parker online glasses was established in 2010. It was established by 4 poor students who didn't know anything about glasses or fashion. Luxottica controls more than 80% of the glasses market. Warby Parker researched Zappos online shoe company. Warby Parker decided to sell glasses that would cost $500 in stores for $95 online, and they give another pair of glasses to someone in th...

Tales of Great Heroes 19 Northern giants captured Helio's cows with horns of gold and carry them off for food. Alcyoneus was the King of giants. As long as he stayed in the land of Phlegra, he was immortal. Alcyoneus told giants one of them should have Aphrodite to be his wife, another Artemis, and he should have Hera. Hercules wrestled Alcyoneus out of Phlegra and clubbed the giant king to death....

Tales of Great Heroes 18 Hercules asked Laomedon to send him the two magic horses that he had won. Laomedon sent him ordinary horses that couldn't run like wind over land or sea. Leaving young wife Deianira in Trachis, Hercules brought Iolaus with him to find Telamon in Salamis. Telamon's young wife gave birth to a baby boy. Hercules wrapped his lion-skin cloak around the boy Ajax. Hercules brough...

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Tales of Great Heroes 16 A voice called to Jason that he had to go to Island of Aeaea for the Enchantress Circe, Medea's aunt, to clean them of their crimes. Near Aeaea there was another island called Capri, on which lived the Sirens. Sirens were once women but now they were women with feet and tails of birds and had wings. Sirens sang sweetly that anyone who heard them would forget everything els...

Tales of Great Heroes 15 Jason's father was the King of Iolcus but defeated by brother Pelias. Pelias had been told that one day a man with only one shoe would come to Iolcus and kill him. Jason grew up in a cave taken care of by centaur Chiron. On his way to River Anaurus Jason met an old woman who asked Jason to carry her across the river. One of Jason's shoes came off in the mud at the bottom o...

Tales of Great Heroes 14 Theseus was son of Aegeus, King of Athens, and Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus, and was born in Troezen. Aegeus left a big rock and a sword and a pair of shoes under it. Aegeus said to Aethra if the baby was a boy then wait till he could lift the rock, bid him to come to Athens. On his way to Athens, Theseus met Periphetes the Clubman. Theseus was the only man who could...

Tales of Great Heroes 13 Zeus meant for Hercules to free Prometheus. Hercules had to free Prometheus first then ask P how to find the Golden Apples. H shot the eagle who pecked P every day with only one shot of arrow. H told P to wear Z's ring on the finger forever to show that P is tied to Z. Golden Apples grew on the tree that was a wedding present to Hera by mother Earth. The tree grew in the m...

Tales of Great Heroes 12 Upon arriving at Amazon, Hera disguised as an Amazon and told the other female warriors that the Queen had been kidnapped by a ship of pirates just now. Hercules captured Hippolita's sister Melanippe, Queen Hippolita asked for peace in exchange of her sister. Hercules had the Queen's belt and returned to Greece. The ship saw a young woman Hesione, daughter of the King of T...

Tales of Great Heroes 11 King Pelius of Iolcus had a beautiful daughter Alcestis. Prince Admetus was the most brave and the most handsome among the many suitors. Before Admetus departed to ask for Alcestis's hand, a strange farmer came to Admetus's kingdom to do the farming without getting any pay. After the 1-year tenant, Admetus went up hill to look for the stranger farmer. Admetus saw that all...

Tales of Great Heroes 10 Eurystheus the coward king's first task: the Nemean Lion The lion was fallen from the moon with toughest skin. With good attitude, a shepherd showed H the shortest way to the den. H's arrow couldn't enter the skin nor did H's sharp sword. H remembered his killing of the Cithaeron lion and started to club the Nemean. Nemean Lion growled into its den. H choked the lion to de...

Tales of Great Heroes 9 Hercules was grown enough to choose his life path. Lady Vice persuaded Hercules to choose her way of life. Lady Virtue advised Hercules not to listen to Vice but choose Virtue instead. A huge yellow lion ran at Hercules's cows. H jumped up and chased the lion without avail. King Thestius was the king of the city of Mount Cithaeron. Thestius had 50 daughters. Hercules stayed...

Tales of Great Heroes 8 Perseus's son Electryon had one daughter called Alcmena. Electryon's nephew Amphitryon went fighting for Electryon's stolen cows and Alcmena's hand. Amphitryon accidentally killed Electryon. Thebes king Creon bade Amphitryon to kill the Teumessian fox set by Dionysus. Zeus was thinking to trick Alcmena into giving birth to a god-like son. Zeus disguised as Amphitryon and pr...

Tales of Great Heroes 7 In Argolis of Greece, King Acrisius had a lovely daughter Danae. Acrisius went ask Apollo at Delphi why he didn't have any son. Messenger said that his daughter Danae's son will grow up to kill Acrisius. Upon this, Acrisius locked daughter Danae high up on a tall tower without meeting anyone. Zeus learnt about the beauty of Danae. Zeus changed himself into a shower of golde...

Tales of Great Heroes 6 Zeus was in pursuit of the great human Prometheus talked about who could save all the gods. Zeus started to keep track of all the seven children born by Cadmus and Harmonia. The eldest was a girl called Autonoe. Autonoe's son boasted of his own hunting skill and was thus turned into a deer by Artemis and was killed by his own dogs. The second was a girl called Ino. Ino's hu...

Tales of Great Heroes 5 Typhon was the last of titan. Typhon was so tall that the stars would tangle in his hair, with a hundred heads and tongues like snake's. He has wings grown on his shoulders. Typhon walked from Asia to Greece, causing storms all the way. Typhon wishes to destroy the palace on Olympus and he himself be the ruler of it. All gods fled. Artemis put on head of cat and was called...

Tales of Great Heroes 4 Zeus wished to destroy all mankind. Hermes advised that they sampled two out of three households first. If two of them were good-hearted, maybe humans could still be there in Bronze Age. First Zeus went to Arcadia of Greece. The king was Lycaon, who ate his sons at his whims. Zeus turned him into wolf, and bade him to wander in the forest in the rest of his life. Next Zeus...

Tales of Great Heroes 3 Prometheus decided to give humans fire to cook food with. Prometheus asked little brother Epimetheus to look after human when he was away to steal some fire from Olympus and Epimetheus would have to shun away from Zeus's any particular "gift". Athena was daughter of Zeus. Athena made Arachne into a spider for the latter boasted of her own weaving skill. Athena helped Promet...

Tales of Greek Heroes 2 Golden Age: Humans don't reproduce Silver Age: Humans look to Cronos and Titans and were also locked up in Tartarus Zeus made good Titan Prometheus to sculp new humans according to the image of the gods from clay. Zeus breathed in air into humans. Zeus decreed life span of humans. Zeus particularly asked Prometheus not to bring fire to humans. Thus humans came to be. Zeus w...

Tales of the Greek Heroes 1 Roger Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) Romans used different names for the Greek gods. Zeus - Jupiter - the king of the gods Hera - Juno - the goddess of women and marriage Aphrodite - Venus - the goddess of love Hades - Pluto - the god of dead people Poseidon - Neptune - the god of the sea Persephone - the goddess of dead people Hermes - Mercury - the messenger of the gods D...

白鯨記大結局 Without any sight of Moby Dick, Ahab realized he had sailed too fast since Moby Dick was slowed by all the strappings they made him yesterday. Starbuck regretted he felt that he was disobeying God when he obeyed Ahab. By turning round, Pequod now caught up with Moby Dick. Before Ahab went hunting Moby Dick, he called upon Starbuck and said he had started upon this hunting voyage for t...

Moby Dick 15 決戰大白鯨第一天 Moby Dick spotted. Moby Dick stoved Ahab's boat. Moby Dick almost swallowed Ahab's whaleboat. Ahab clung to Moby Dick's teeth. Moby Dick flung Ahab off. Ahab fell into sea. Ahab broke his whalebone leg. Starbuck steered Pequod close to Ahab and rescued them. Ahab offered 10 times the gold coin's value to share with the 30 seamen if they helped him hunt Moby Dick. 決戰...

Moby Dick 14 sextant 六分儀; 圓的六分之一 (2 1 4) Ahab lost his senses speaking to the sun complaining sun didn't help as well as his sailing tools. Typhoon came. The sails were torn. Masts were on fire. Ahab evoked that the fire was a Godsent for him to find Moby Dick. One harpoon hung on the bow of one whaleboat caught fire too. Sailors were terrified by sight of the burning harpoon. Ahab warned...