Every vacation for the past five years has seen me make a firm resolution to finally start reading through Euclid’s Elements. Plutarch’s Lives… Gibbon’s Decline and Fall… Caesar’s Commentaries… All works that any decent human being should have fall under […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I frequently find myself asking the internet to tell me the hair color of famous dead people. Sometimes nothing turns up. Other times, ghoulish auctions inform me that J.E.B. Stuart had sandy brown hair, and one could have bought a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My favorite “Jeb Stuart As Clotheshorse” story comes from the first volume of Foote’s Civil War. I’ll let the venerable man himself start it: Midnight came; Jeb and his staff decided to get some sleep on the porch of a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arthur C. Clarke is dead. Another voice enthused about where reason and science might take us when guided by the best faculties of pure humanity is stilled. This depresses me really quite awfully. I have enjoyed his books, particularly those […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So yes, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” wasn’t written until the 1940s, but I would like to think there was a proto-version of this story kicking around that Abe would have known about. The best court case that uses “The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For some reason, I can remember effectively nothing about my life before I was thirteen. However, one memory that is seared into my brain is that of being sick in like seventh grade and of my mom taking me to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was thinking that the tin can in panel 4 might be an anachronism (because even though we play fast and loose with history, I like to know when we are doing so), but it is not. The first tin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Boy, I sure would love to drop some historical knowledge right about here, but damn if I didn’t get the Virtual Console on the Wii up and running today and damn if The Legend of Zelda hasn’t got its hooks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via some feat of precognitive magic, I got this episode colored and posted late Tuesday night before my home computer decided that it didn’t want to boot up anymore. The good news is that this is probably a hardware issue, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First of all, check out the new additions to our Good Reads page! They’re Sandburg-tastic! Frederick should really be used to this by now. Let’s just take a look at the Kings of Prussia from the time of the Great […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…