Crooner is an epithet given to a male singer of a certain style of popular songs, dubbed pop standards.A crooner is a singer of popular ballads and thus a “balladeer”. Some crooners, most notably Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and Andy Williams, incorporated other popular styles into their music, such as blues, dixieland and even native Hawaiian music.

It took Christopher Columbus over eight weeks to cross the Atlantic. Nowadays, we can do it in less than eight hours in a jumbo jet. What would Columbus or Archimedes have made of it? Well, it doesn't mean they were less intelligent than you or me. They were probably more intelligent. And maybe all this progress that modern man seems to be making is partly an illusion. Perhaps there are even things we can learn from the science and technology of ancient times. Take the city, for example. Cities seem so much the product of modern technology and yet, in fact, they are one of the most ancient of all inventions.