Well this is just damn cool stuff here. For nearly 1,300 years, no one knew it was there. The name of a highly educated English woman, secretly scratched on to the pages of a rare medieval manuscript in the eighth century, but impossible to read...
Author: Erik Loomis
Was so busy grading today, almost forgot to do this. Ah, December. I don't have time to say much as I have a mountain of additional grading to do, plus.
On December 6, 1977, the United Mine Workers of America walked off the job. This moment demonstrated a moment when workers thought they could gain more power in the economy..
We lost Bob McGrath from Sesame Street. So tonight's Film Club is a tribute to him from a 1977 episode of Sesame Street that, like so many of the episodes from that legendary show, was an attempt to make the deaf accepted in society. RIP....
Need to take a moment to congratulate Fred McGriff on getting into the Hall of Fame. He's kind of a marginal candidate really, but given that the Veterans Committee have.
At the very least, kicking Iowa and its utterly undemocratic and poorly run caucus system out of the first presidential primary spot will have serious benefits for the nation. It.
FILE PHOTO: Kosovo ethnic Serbs pass through barricades near the border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia in Jarinje, Kosovo, September 28, 2021. REUTERS/Laura Hasani There's the War of Jenkins' Ear and then there's the Football War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. We may...
On at least a couple of occasions here, I've noted that students of mine have expressed that they don't want to have children because they don't think that a world.
While the University of California has come to an agreement with one of its three striking unions--the postdocs--the other unions remain on strike. Fundamentally, this is a straightforward issue--the University.
This is the grave of Tim Russert. The most overrated media figure of the last half-century, Russert, as he would tell you over and over and over again in an attempt to create authenticity for himself, came from Buffalo, born there in 1950. Russert did...
Annie Lowrey has a pretty good essay on the housing shortage. She rightfully makes the point that the biggest issue is a lack of new building. I can certainly accept.
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson Hamilton. You can read the historical society biography above, but we'll go ahead and expand on this a bit. Hamilton was born in.