Quick note after lo, these many years: A lot's changed, of course.  One major move, the loss of Briar, Liz and Ronnie, COVID, and a lot...

 Hans Trausil, a translator and poet of the 1920's, gives us this glimpse of a tough little urban scrapper. The   Cat  (Italian   Quarte...

Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields Considering how alertly these hunting dogs leap upon the boars and hinds in this...

british library flickr Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 1777:  American and British troops face each other across the battlefield. They...

www.metmuseum.org Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960 (PD) For Cinco de Mayo I'm bringing you this sprightly wood-engraved scene by Jo...

thanks british library flickr (PD) Mary Monck (Irish, d. 1715)  was the second daughter of the first Viscount Molesworth; the wife of G...

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-cb1d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 (PD) "A World of Things" (Momoyagusa) is a 3-vol...

2100 BC, Mesopotamia: it's another day at the brickworks, and you've just impressed the official stamp on a fresh, moist, kiln-bound...