Midweek Grab Bag
(1) OTDH: Robert E. Lee surrenders (History) (2) Paul Dukas, a Sorcerer, and a Mouse (The Imaginative Conservative) (3) Best of X for the day:
Category Archives: History
Weekend 634.0
Watched Flowers of War on TUBI. It’s very brutal, but usually a theater in WWII you never see in movies.
Weekend 622.0 (fragments that can shore up one’s ruins…)
The powers of evil have, theologically, two characteristics. First, they are really evil: evil is not merely in the mind as some philosophers have suggested, but is a force which Continue Reading →
Silver, sea glass, and rum (or somewhere between Middle and South Road)
Just back from Bermuda. Uploading photos on Flickr, but a full recap will have to wait until work travel concludes. For now… (1) On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails Continue Reading →
Weekend 618.0
Wednesday, August 21 was the 21st anniversary of LIMESTONE ROOF! (1) New York World’s Fair Souvenir Key, 1940 (Henry Ford Musuem) (2) These Life-Sized Playmobil Figures Are Works of Art Continue Reading →
One piece at a time…
A cartoon is not an image taken from life. A cartoon is taken from memory. You’re trying to distill the memory of an experience, not the experience itself.” — Chris Continue Reading →
To praise the glorious Fifty-nine!
“Up to 1761, British forces had enjoyed mixed success in amphibious assaults on French soil. At the start of the war they had only very vague ideas about how to Continue Reading →
UK Trip (Christmas 2023)
It was predominately a trip for FOOTBALL. I saw the Saints play two at home in Southampton and one on the road in Norwich. They won their home matches against Continue Reading →
History Repeats
(1) The Pilgrimage of Grace (Historic UK) “The policies of Henry VIII did much to change the country and shape its future; those who resisted with the Pilgrimage of Grace Continue Reading →
Weekend 589.0 (Rommer Treece)
“At some point in his studies the student of military history begins to perceive great events as climaxes to a series of ironies.” — W.J. Wood What’s cooking? I’m smack Continue Reading →