Colonel Oates to Ian Fleming in Less Than Six Degrees
From the Civil War to James Bond.
Friday Procrastination
Some great ways to waste your time.
This Day in History: Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
A tribute to Rosa Parks.
Oxford Companion to Wine
ice wine vs. Icewine
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
Oxford Companion to Food
Pie in the Sky
Read the pie entry from the Oxford Companion To Food.
The Partition of Palestine
An excerpt which looks at the partition of Palestine.
Monthly Gleanings: November, 2006
Anatoly Liberman answers some questions readers have submitted.
Judge Posner in Second Life
Judge Richard Posner in Second Life.
A History of Violence: David Cronenberg’s Morality Play
Nicole Rafter’s monthly column examines the film, A History of Violence.
Mismatch: The Modern World and Humanity
A look at how our world no longer fits us.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music: An Excerpt
Aimee Mann
An excerpt from the Encylopedia of Popular Music’s Aimee Mann entry.
Thanksgiving in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
A link to the biography of Edward Winslow to celebrate Thankgsiving.
A Traditional American Thanksgiving
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.
Etymological folklore
or: a few subdued thoughts on hullabaloo
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
Biography From the Bottom Up, part three.
Biography From the Bottom Up: Part Two
Part two of Biography From the Bottom