Thanksgiving 2025
It’s Thanksgiving and also the First Sunday of Advent. (1) 2026 FIFA World Cup pots: December 5 draw structure announced for groups in next summer’s tournament (CBS SPORTS) (1a) Southampton Continue Reading →
Category Archives: History
Weekend 649.0
“…for he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and maker is God.” (1) Coin (Noble) Showing Henry VI (The Met) (2) Notable on X:
National Lighthouse Day
A quote from Bermuda’s Story by Terry Tucker: “For a long time it had been very plain that there would continue to be many shipwrecks around our coasts unless a Continue Reading →
Weekend 648.0 (…things are upside down and in the air.)
(1) Inside Brompton: a pioneering provider of folding bicycles for fifty years (Wallpaper) (2) History has a rhythm and this is eerily relevant. A quote from The Brothers York: An Continue Reading →
Weekend 647.0 (…the pigment that colors the eyes of the lovers that betray you.)
(1) Reading With Jane Austen (The Imaginative Conservative) (2) The Great Bullion Famine: When Europe’s money ran out (Glint) (2a) A quote from The Brothers York by Thomas Penn: “There Continue Reading →
Weekend 646.0 (‘Perdition cometh!’)
“For all its convenience, it [The London Orbital] is a route to nowhere, a road which simply connects to other roads.” “Looking back at the line’s history as I write, Continue Reading →
Has it been a good one?
“It is foolishness to assume that times past were better than the present.” A post full of melancholy to match the gray and rain. (1) Lyrics from The Lumineers: The Continue Reading →
Weekend 640.0
“I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had Continue Reading →
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:
Weekend 634.0
Watched Flowers of War on TUBI. It’s very brutal, but usually a theater in WWII you never see in movies.