When the Reformation dissolved the monastic society; the monk’s houses, landscaped gardens and the spring, became broken down, derelict and overgrown. With the lack of any Christian overseers, apparently the old ways resurged. People began to assemble at night, to undertake rituals. In the 17...
Little men in canoes upon sunlit oceans would come floating out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of prehistoric monsters unawares; violent conflicts would break out amidst the flower-beds of suburban gardens; I would discover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an order ...
cpaulfell // Shutterstock 1972: First female chef heads big-name hotel kitchen Leslie Revsin was hired as a “kitchen man”—a low-level position—at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1972, according to The New York Times. She would rapidly climb the ladder and go on to become the first...
THE WAR IN THE AIR by H. G. WELLS CONTENTS I. OF PROGRESS AND THE SMALLWAYS FAMILY II. HOW BERT SMALLWAYS GOT INTO DIFFICULTIES III. THE BALLOON IV. THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET V. THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC VI. HOW WAR CAME TO NEW YORK VII. THE "VATERLAND
“Our woven fantasy of Alfred’s ale, By conclusive cut of critic dry, Is shredded clean away.” The most distinguished poet who thus commemorated the special drink of England and of B.N.C. was Reginald Heber, bishop and hymn-writer, who composed the verses in 1806; the compositions have...