Modern aerial view of the three harbours of the port of Piraeus, the port of Athens. The smaller harbours in the foreground are the ancient military harbours of Zea and Munichia. The commercial harbour of Kantharos is in the background. Lastly, we cannot have a discussion of Roman monume...
the teeth were whole in the upper jaw, but the whole back and rest of the body, as far as we could see, was covered with a black film or skin, which I suppose to be the winding sheet in which the corpse was buried, being blended with the moisture of the body....
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
An aerial view of the site shows the courtyards are not well-aligned in any particular direction. Different parts of the stonework surrounding the pedestals vary by several degrees in azimuth. This is in contrast with other Egyptian temples and monuments such as the Colossi of Memnon, which are...
When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women her age dressed in somber grays, dull browns, and boring blues. But not Mary Todd Lincoln. For her, expensive clothes were a mark of importance, of breeding. She proceeded to dr...
A small section of the Korean War Memorial It’s good that the various museums across the globe and in the United States are beginning to open. The museum rolls out many exhibits to look over and many are surprisingly large. It’s worth a trip but in my view. I think many museums...
I was rereading a book calledA Summer in Gasconyby Martin Calder and was reminded that one of the oldest ivory statuettes ever found anywhere in the world was less than a two-hour drive from my house. The Venus of Lespugue, dating from 20,000 BC to 29,000 BC, was discovered in 19...
Best Of The Past “I have Made Fire!!! “ April 7, 2024Leave a comment “Time is the fire in which we burn.” —Gene Roddenberry Completely my own writing. by Rick Bretz When I build a successful fire on the first try, I usually say “It’s Alive” or from Castaway qhenTom Ha...
studio was still running as well; at the bottom of People and their Pursuits see a photo (and the reverse) of my great-grandmother and her family taken in 1906 at his studio at 47 Sule Pagoda Rd., Rangoon. The little girl on the right is my grandmother at the age of five, Lily ...
Living and working minutes from downtown Los Angeles in a loft on the rooftop of an industrial building known as “The Brewery”, I have an amazing view of the skyline. In contrast, my husband and I travel weekends to our home in Pioneertown, CA, where we love the inspiring views of...