Intermarrying is putting it lightly: not only did the Fitches and Martins and Fitch-Martins have a tradition of marriage between first and second cousins, but they also recycled first names, particularly Abby and Pliny, making Loughlin’s first chapter, “Family History,” a bewildering read. ...
Credits:Sons of Anarchy, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys, Waterworld 635 votes Miss them? 5 Mark Boone Junior – Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson Photo: FX Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons Mark Boone Juniorhad been a character actor for many years before achieving stardom as Rober...
Where did the attack on Pearl Harbor happen? After the Spanish-American War, what happened to Cubans and Puerto Ricans? Where did the American-Indian Wars take place? Where was the Korean War fought? Where was the first battle of the War of 1812? Where was the Battle of Leyte Gulf? Whe...
Hand sewing – didn’t Doctor Kennedy mention once that the skills of doctors doing sutures had fallen off because so few people did hand sewing any more? Discuss as you wish; what other seemingly-outdated skills are still useful or may become useful again in our lamentably chaotic world?
William L. Chaplin, an associate of Gerrit Smith’s who had arranged the ill-fated April 1848 escape of 77 Washington, D. C. slaves aboard thePearl, had been scheduled to make a dramatic appearance with some fugitive slaves he had rescued from the South, but things did not turn out well...
When Fionn finally did return home, he found Sadhbh was gone. He would spend the next seven years futilely searching for Sadhbh. At the end of those seven years, a wild boy was found in the forest near where the Fianna hunted. Fionn instantly recognized some of Sadhbh’s features in the...
Start planning now for next year's holiday and you can make it work. Whether it's a summer or fall trip, or a goal for next Christmas, you can make it happen. If you're single, consider a low-interest loan or sharing a cabin. If you're a couple or family, figure ways to save...
(While my toddler son would turn to me and pause before peeing in a Pull-Up.) At the time, I thought I was a failure for not succeeding at potty training him at 20 months. Oh, we tried. My entire family knows I tried. But I can assure you, he did not go to preschool peeing ...
In England it is a very common thing to send out cards in memory of the departed ones, and they put upon them great borders of black--sometimes a quarter of an inch of black border--but this friend had put on a gold border; he did not put on black at all; his mother had gone ...
No spills. I return to sitting on the floor as I did for the first few teas, I like this cue for opening a different space for thinking. There is so much time for thinking these days, it becomes a way of making this moment different. I realize that the cues that pulled me through...