Happy New Year, redux

Check the date — I’ll wait. And I’m not talking Rosh Hashana (happy year 5770, anyway)! Although the Jewish High Continue reading →

Silly Questions — “firsts” edition

Break Time for one of those silly tests — It’s kind of neat to think back… * Who was your Continue reading →

History & Heroes

This summer, living in Gettysburg, I walk past a wayside marker just about every day. That in itself isn’t particularly Continue reading →

Past Perfect

I have to say today is a mixed bag for invaders 🙂 On June 18, 1815, Napoleon lost the battle Continue reading →

blast from the past Thursday/6.4.09

1919: Congress passed the 19th Amendment So, 143 years after mankind is granted the right to “life, liberty & so Continue reading →

blast from the past Thursday/5.28.09

1754 — the French & Indian War gets “hot” In an encounter that perhaps should not have happened, George Washington Continue reading →

Thursday “blast from the past”/5.21.09

I thought it would be fun to take a day do a few “on this day in history” moments. My Continue reading →

fear itself….

I write from the premise that the more I read, the more informed my research becomes – or from the Continue reading →