Proving that the upper echelons of New York society in the 1870s were just as savage as the criminal underworld of the 1970s, Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence follows the tortured desire between a respected lawyer played by Daniel Day-Lewis and a free-spirite...
Known all over the world as the old Dutch city laced with canals and rich in artistic history, Amsterdam is a great city to explore on foot as well as on two wheels. The main center is compact with most of the top sites within just a ten minute stroll aw
Spring is perhaps the best season to explore the 385 acres of cultivated gardens and natural areas of the Chicago Botanic Garden, one of the world’s great living museums and conservation science centers and home to 27 unique gardens. Before you go, download the free walking map and free app...
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...
“I found it in the rare books section of a Cape Cod library. A colorful account of people who made a living by scavenging shipwrecks. The wreckers were thought to be unsavory by most, but Kittredge’s admiration bleeds though. Reminds me of Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor. ...
You think farming's hard now? You should have been there in 1870. Chip Carter found a time machine for a trip to the Georgia Museum of Agricultural on the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. It's a 400-acre living history exhibit where they still plow with mules, ...
her life as she moves in the world from being a three-year-old toddler abandoned by her mother in a Korean marketplace to being the adopted daughter of an American family living in New Orleans to becoming an independent, international traveler wandering the world in search of home and self....
Dining in Plaka is just as diverse as shopping. Pull up a barrel and have a drink atBrettos, or a classic Greek dinner at Platanos Taverna. Enjoy homemade baked goods and coffee sitting at the sidewalk cafe ofYiasemior some seafood atBarbounaki. Shopping and dining were never more than...
He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave.New Living TranslationAt the place where the road passes some sheepfolds, Saul went into a cave to relieve himself. But as it happened, ...
where it had come from Persia sometime before that. Spinach made its way into Europe by the eleventh century as Moors brought it with them to Spain. Ibn al-ʻawwām, an Arabic agriculturalist living in Spain in the late 1100s, called spinach “the chieftain of leafy greens” in his ag...