This is the grave of Charles Dickens. Lot to say here, so I will make this kind of general and people can work it out in comments. Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, at a time of massive change in England. This was...
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Yep, Biden really had his pulse on the nation--depoliticizing everything through having Merrick Garland as his AG was a real winner! Acting on a mix of principle and caution, Justice.
This is the grave of Rudyard Kipling. Born in 1865 in Bombay, India, Kipling grew up in the colonialism of 19th century Britain. His parents were less active imperialists than.
I generally hate navel gazing, but the grave series hitting 2,000 posts is kind of a moment to think about this project. I started this as what I considered the dumbest idea I ever had. And then it became a massive part of my career....
For this very special grave post, I am going to profile one of the greats. This is the grave of Frank Little. Like a couple of other recent posts, I.
This is the Bowery is a 1941 MGM short designed primarily to make viewers feel that mission work for the homelessness on the Bowery and in other districts in the.
This is the grave of Benjamin Roberts. Born in Boston in 1815, Roberts grew up in the small Black middle class of that city at that time. His father was a servant--but about the most successful servant in the country. In fact, in 1827, he...
Tonight, we can watch a 1 minute 1939 British Pathé film on how Poland is preparing itself for defense and is a key part of the British-French alliance. Well, about.
President Donald Trump and Amy Coney Barrett stand on the Blue Room Balcony after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administered the Constitutional Oath to her on the South Lawn of.
One of the most remarkable political stories in my life is the transformation of Ireland from the most church dominated and one of the most conservative nations in western Europe to a secular nation with no time for the world's bullshit. I was in rural...
This is the grave of John Panozzo. Born in 1948 in Chicago, John Panozzo and his twin brother Chuck became super interested in music as kids as they grew up.
We continue our tour of colonization through film footage by looking at this 9 minute 1930s travel piece on Cebu, Philippines, which pretty much consists of lionizing Magellan (who died.