For all its faults and foibles, our democracy is a profound gift from previous generations. Yet most people don’t know the name of their MP, nor their constituency, let alone what their MP does or says in their name. We aim to help bridge this growing democratic disconnect, in the beli...
It’s interesting to think that, as Fischer makes clear, our stereotypes of the combative “mountain man” and irascible “hill people” of Appalachia sprung from the previous four centuries of war between English and Scottish aristocracies, because these immigrating families had survived for genera...
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achiev
Obviously when they go into such a situation, yes they are just regular people, but when they come back, they are not like you. They are different. They go through things you would not be able to comprehend. Coming back from such things, that makes them heroes. Heroes for having to fi...
No mammoths were radically different from living elephants, unless you count the dwarf ones. But as a kid, like most people do, I saw them as something else: an exotic monster of the past, eerily unlike anything today, and bigger too. And mammoths have the added mystique of the extinct....
add a few new things to it.From Bayeux in Normandy, we took a D-Day tour with a guide who had interviewed veterans of WW2, as well as people living in the area, and amassed a collection of stories that make the sites come alive and give you a more intimate connection to the events...
There are still many native speakers of Welsh today, mostly in Wales. The last native speaker of Cornish died in the late eighteenth century, but there are a number of people in Cornwall and elsewhere who have attempted to learn Cornish and even rejuvenate the language. Breton is spoken in ...
times that she can truly communicate with the spirits of the deceased and gather information from them to help solve crimes, there are still many skeptics who believe she’s just putting on a show. Fortunately, she also has a few people who do believe in her and support her unconditionally...
Mr. Steinmeier spoke about the man who had tossed his violin from the train. He described a prisoner playing a violin in Auschwitz. “Each violin represents a person, Amnon,” he said. “And when your violins play, they represent six million people.” ...
Again, I was at that Prom performance of the Ninth that Michael Kennedy talks about in his book; I was one of the young people standing and applauding the old man just a few weeks before his death. A short time after that I was at Westminster Abbey for his memorial service, which ...