The walk ended at Gilpin Park, built on the site of one of the former quarries that provided the clay for the brickworks. It was here that she returned to her reflections on deep time, and the wafer-thin segment of white settler time in what we know now as Brunswick. Somehow the newne...
While we have a lot of stories about Arthur, there are several that involve his parents and other adventures that happened a generation earlier. Here are some of these: The Birth and Childhood of Merlin: According to the “History of the Kings of Britain” and the French Vulgate, the “Bi...
The philosophies and ideologies themselves certainly left an impression on me. But the rigor of the distillation process, the exercise of refinement, that's where the real learning happened. It was an incredible, heady skill to master. Through the years, I've used it again and again - the ...
Interestingly, in Gruyere, there is also a Tibetan Museum, high on the hill alongside the medieval castle. There is also the H R Giger Museum. H R Giger, the Swiss painter, was part of a special effects team that won an Academy Award for design work on the film Alien and was well ...
1. It is both intriguing and historically significant that the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century was associated with an urge to re-think what kind of language communication is ...
Also looming above the city is the enormous Arthur’s Seat; a long-extinct volcano that is the largest of a series of rocky crags that include both Calton Hill and Castle Rock. A quintessential Edinburgh experience is hiking to the top of the mighty mount and basking in the beautiful views...
A trip to Salerno is bucking the trend, with the traveling crowd heading further west along the Amalfi Coast. Those that stay behind are left with a city that won’t easily release its secrets. Facing the eye-catching Gulf of Salerno, the city itself
which cannot be encountered at other times. It really can be fun to build a new Norman empire on the foundations of ancient Rome. When medieval knights stand next to the Colosseum.This is something new inCivilizationthat I think I like the most so far.It's a good idea, even if ...
Mr. Clarke at first assumes that the boys are seeking solace in a dimension in which "none of this tragic stuff ever happened," but they correct him: "we were thinking of more of an evil dimension, like the Vale of Shadows. You know the Vale of Shadows?" Mr. Clarke confirms his ...
newspaper recipes.The New York Timestemporarily replaced its Sunday Travel section with a new section called “At Home.” Each week it featured five simple recipes to help us all survive sheltering in place. Once things opened up this summer, the section closed down. I miss that weekly feast...