Oxford Companion to Wine
ice wine vs. Icewine
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
Read the pie entry from the Oxford Companion To Food.
An excerpt which looks at the partition of Palestine.
Anatoly Liberman answers some questions readers have submitted.
Judge Richard Posner in Second Life.
Nicole Rafter’s monthly column examines the film, A History of Violence.
A look at how our world no longer fits us.
An excerpt from the Encylopedia of Popular Music’s Aimee Mann entry.
A link to the biography of Edward Winslow to celebrate Thankgsiving.
Amid all the stuffing, turkey, and pumpkin pie it’s useful to reflect for a moment on precisely what we celebrate on Thanksgiving Day. Every American knows the story of the First Thanksgiving: seeking religious freedom, the Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Native Wampanoag taught them how to plant corn and hunt. When the crops were harvested, the Pilgrims celebrated the First Thanksgiving by gobbling up turkeys, saucing cranberries, mashing corn, and squashing pumpkins to make pies.
Superstitions, unlike knowledge, spread quickly. Students’ spelling breaks every instructor’s heart, and we ask ourselves the question: How did so many people from all over the country, come to the unanimous conclusion that occurrence should be spelled occurance? It is, I believe, a huge conspiracy.
Biography From the Bottom Up, part three.
Part two of Biography From the Bottom
Thanksgiving origins in Leiden.
Part one of three, Biography From the Bottom Up.
A look at the Mos Def entry in the EPM.