Follow-up to Twain’s Renaissance Yankee

Wikipedia’s article about A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court gets details of the plot rather wrong. But this bit is interesting: [...]

The Powerful Future of America’s Past

I am reading, once again, a book from about 130 years ago: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. [...]

Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth

This came in though Shakespeare interest connections, and was forwarded to me from a Facebook Shakespeare page that I wrote the poetic introduction to but have never seen.

The UK Daily Mail is tittering over whether or not the Virgin Queen really was. And Shakespeare is involved.

If you’re interested, here’s the intro I wrote: Continue reading Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth

Gungate and Other Scandals

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Operation Fast and Furious is now being joined by “Operation Castaway,” a project allegedly run from the Tampa, Florida ATF office and which arranged for large amounts of weapons to be delivered to MS13 gang members in Honduras. This article suggests that this was different from the Phoenix operation, and that “most” or “several” gun shipments were intercepted. What was the point? [...]

Independence Journey

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Are these where the fountains of freedom might be? [...]

Why was Japan so ruthless in Nanking?

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I don’t have a “why,” exactly, to explain the situation I wrote about here. There was a long history (many hundreds of years) of Japan’s proud and fierce warriors taking as much of China as they wanted — and Korea, too.
Continue reading Why was Japan so ruthless in Nanking?

Sun Rise

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He really was born in the 60s, though not in the year indicated by the Hawaiian birth certificate. [...]

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