LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC

Maximilian Pirner, born February 13, 1853, Schüttenhofen, Bohemia (Czech: Sušice). Died April 2, 1924, Prague. A Czech painter, member of ...

Continuing the topic of yesterday's post, The Armenian Genocide, today concentrating on those of the leaders who had a major part in org...

#2 of The Real Abominables series relates to The Armenian Genocide, and needs to be spread over two days' posts. Today, a bit of outline...

Steven Pinker, research psychologist and professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and author of "Words and Ru...

A look at two artists who liked to shock. Aubrey Beardsley, about whom I posted back in 2007, a copy of that post is repeated below; and the...

First in a series of several, as mentioned in Tuesday's (7 October) post ~~~ From The Independent in 2010 Mao Zedong, founder of the ...

While searching for information for a future post I came across mention of Kaal Sarpa Yoga. It comes from vedic astrology. Basically, it oc...

I didn't exactly fall down an internet rabbit hole this time, rather I wandered gingerly into one to take a look while casting around fo...

I shop via the internet a lot: e-bay, shoes, clothes, and general items just not available in our neck of the woods - well, not without a le...

5 October, in ancient Rome, marked one of three dates (along with 24 August and 8 November) of a festival known as Mundus Patet, when a st...

Bet you didn't know that today is International Frugal Fun Day : first Saturday in October. From a website titled Holiday Insights I...

James Rizzi . He was born on 5 October 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of Irish-Italian background. He died aged 61 in December ...