Weekend 675.1
“The day we stop looking, Charlie, is the day we die.”— Olivia Dunham There’s never a plan for any of these posts. They just happen organically. The only ingredients necessary Continue Reading →
Category Archives: History
Weekend 674.0
“The setting sun all mistook for dawn.” — Victor Hugo “People assumed the future would always be newer and better, so yesterday’s future was disposable.” — ChatGPT (1) Final Days Continue Reading →
Weekend 673.0 (Furor Teutonicus)
It’s a three-day weekend. I’ve been using AI to optimize WP CSS. The one thing I love about AI is how it’s given NEW life to a myriad of projects. Continue Reading →
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland: Hero or Villain?
(1) A quote from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy: “Back in I483, Northumberland’s military might had been instrumental in Richard’s rise to power. But, with Richard refusing to hand Continue Reading →
Outflanked, beaten, and bewildered
“Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible. And when you strike and overcome him, never let up in pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →