The 2010 World Cup began in South Africa today, with the first game, between South Africa and Mexico, ending in a tie. With the US-England game coming up tomorrow, Laurent Dubois, author …
Report for the week ending…… of the condition of the telephone at 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn. __________________________________________ Explanation of the Signs. + Artillery can be heard. ++ Thunder can be heard. …
Mark Paul, co-author, with Joe Mathews, of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It, responds to California’s state primary election on Tuesday. This post also …
In this guest post, W. Joseph Campbell challenges a longstanding myth surrounding the New York Times and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Campbell’s book, Getting it Wrong: Ten of the …
“If you can’t get me the porcelain picture, Livy, do please have a ferrotype taken for me.”—Samuel Clemens to his future wife Olivia Langdon, November 1868 See this and much more at …
Seven hundred years after sinking to the bottom in the seething waters of a legendary battle, shipwreck fragments, pieces of armor, weapons, bones, and other relics lie submerged off the coast of …
“Mark Twain Receiving a Laurel Wreath from Joan of Arc at the Dinner of the Society of American Illustrators” “Mark Twain was the guest of honor at a recent dinner at the …
On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to …
Edward McCabe, co-author, with Linda McCabe, of DNA: Promise and Peril, was interviewed recently on KABC 7 News, following the news that a research team led by scientist J. Craig Venter successfully …