Spent a good chunk of the afternoon exploring the Montana Heritage Center and didn't get through half of it. It was a powerful and damning portrait of America.

In 1983, as the residents of Calcata, a small town 30 miles north of Rome, prepared for their annual procession honoring a holy relic, a shocking announcement from the parish priest put a damper on…

“In the spirit of ancient Athens, where the greatest minds gathered to question the gods, challenge the powerful, and pursue the nature of truth, a new symposium rises. “Four disciplines.…

Though an aristocrat and military officer, Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) grew disillusioned with war, politics, and worldly affairs, as reflected in his novels. In Stello (1832), the character of…

Because reconciling / Our own brokenness / Is not only / How we comfort others // But also / How we participate / And manifest / The glory of / Our self-reconciling God

And I give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish throughout the ages. To all eternity they shall never by any means be destroyed. And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand…

France gets all the scented glory today, but Florence was the birthplace of modern fragrance. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the boundaries among perfume, pharmaceuticals and prayer were…

Few stories are as unsettling as reports of ghostly children appearing deep in the woods. Across the United States and around the world, hikers, campers, and local residents have shared accounts of…

Interview recorded in 1980 and provided courtesy of York Oral History Society More information on the Mystery Towers. Transcription: VOICES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR PROJECT INTERVIEW WITH JOHN TEAL.…

The week the opening of the exhibition on Nicolas Flamel at Musee de Cluny in Paris is the main event. However, a major exhibition at Tewkesbury, a major Norman building, explores how the social…

Affirmative and Negative Propositions Have Opposites We mean by affirmation a statement affirming one thing of another; we mean by negation a statement denying one thing of another. Aristotle…

Zivia Lubetkin fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, helped Holocaust survivors reach Eretz Yisrael and devoted her life to building Israel. Continue reading Zivia Lubetkin: The Resistance Leader Who…

So yes, I have been studying medicine for 3 weeks now. 《黃帝內經》, a text considered the origin of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (it’s not. it’s a compilation of curing techniques popular at the…

He was trusted by Emperor Heraclius to support the emperor's son, Constans II, and he did, even going so far as to eliminate the young emperor's rivals. A few years later, however, Valentinus decided…

In the Isaiah chapters we just read, one of the greatest blessings that is promised is that the Lord will hear and answer. Now we all sort of assume this is the case, right? If we’re talking…

The readings for Sunday, October 25, 2026: First Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm: Psalm 46 Second Reading: Romans 3:19-28 Gospel: John 8:31-36 Here we are, back at Reformation Sunday. Each year, as…

The Foundry Branch trestle carried Glen Echo streetcars over Glover-Archbold Park from 1896 to 1960. Now DC's last streetcar bridge is coming down. The post Foundry Branch Trestle: DC’s Last…

Another instance of transplant shock concerns the contrast between monastic and domestic/vocational forms of life. Many of the spiritual practices Protestants try to recover—fasting, fixed-hour…

We abbreviate 'pound' and 'ounce' with letters that aren't in the words they stand for because of one archaic term and one foreign word. The post Why We Use ‘Lb.’ and ‘Oz.’ to Abbreviate Pound and…

Francis Lightfoot Lee was a 41 years old planation owner when he signed the Declaration of Independence. Though married, we do not know of any children. He was 62 years of age when he passed on 11…

In my previous post I pointed out that there seems to be an irony in the teachings of Jesus about the coming Kingdom of God. On one hand, it seems like it should be a completely utopian place where…

Tonight’s tale is not so much scary as it is eerie. It echoes some themes that we’ve seen in several of this month’s tales so far, such as dying from smallpox, spooky calligraphy,…

“Ahhh! I have a headache, fever and feel achy all over,” groaned Susan. Neil went into the bathroom returning with ibuprofen and water. “Here take this,” he said handing it to Susan, “then I’ll get…

SITE OF THE HOMESTEAD OF CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH THE MILITARY LEADER OF PLYMOUTH COLONY <img border="0" data-original-height="5184" data-original-width="3888" height="320"…

I spent much of Monday in the hospital for “tests” involving various bodily fluids – one more reminder that the human body is profoundly ridiculous. In two weeks I’m scheduled for surgery. The text…

Candid Photo Of City Hall &#38; Fountain By An Amateur Photographer -1897 This cabinet card amateur photo of City Hall and its park has a notation on the rear &#8220;1897. Who took it and when in…

These days it is relatively easy to learn about different religions and spiritual systems to admittedly widely variable levels of accuracy without getting into alarming trouble. In other words, now…

Author and yoga teacher Sue Bushell shares how ancient wisdom, Hindu mythology, meditation, and creative practice can help us discover the extraordinary within the ordinary.

David Wilkerson was deeply affected emotionally by what he was shown about the future of the United States. For months afterward, he &#8220;tried to shake it off&#8221;, but he couldn&#8217;t do it.…

Miscellaneous notes on St. Louis slang and customs, from pronouncing Carondelet to defining a hoosier.

Into Ontario the Oswego runs, to ever flood the inland sea that swallows every day the sun, which every day resumes the play. The current that carried Onondaga trappers, traders, and Hiawatha to an…

“that indefinable eccentric something…O.W. Philips describing Reginald Johnston: “Sinophile to a degree which tended to warp his judgment on any Anglo-Chinese issue, had that indefinable eccentric…

Prescott native Ruby Loy Jacquemin computed Arizona’s vital statistics during the 1920s. What was her background, and what did she do?

Jelenleg az Ön rokonának, Dr. Guth Antal, a Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság egészségügyi népbiztosának és orvosának életét kutatja, azzal a céllal, hogy megírja életrajzát. Guth Antal a kommunista…

&#8220;They blinked. Tears rolled down my cheeks. I turned to the stars and whispered, ‘John’s star is here.’ I moved to the wall and gently touched the star I knew was his. They followed me, Lora’s…

What did Paris sound like in the lifetime of Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418)? As part of its exhibition Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier, the Musée de Cluny invites visitors to explore the musical…

Corpus Parisinum 342 (tr. Denis Searby): New wine, new friend. When it grows old, you shall drink it with pleasure. Οἶνος νέος φίλος νέος· ἐὰν δὲ παλαιωθῇ, µετ' εὐφροσύνης πίεσαι αὐτόν. Related post:…

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10 -NKJV). God’s covenant names reveal His attitude towards us. As you read the Old Testament, you will find…

language has become a collective hallucination in which consumption has become the dominant mode of production. this has rendered language more or less meaningless. we live in a world where there is…

This essay was first published in the print edition of The European Conservative There is a type of academic who can only get noticed by attacking the legacies of greater men and women, and a prime…

Otzi the iceman is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. He had tattoos on his skin which corresponded with acupuncture points which would be used today to treat his health…

Donat Josèph Méro était un parfumeur réputé de Grasse qui est devenu maire de Cannes et a développé les infrastructures de la ville.

CHAPTER 30 GOD’S ESSENCE THE ONLY SPECIES IN HIS UNDERSTANDING Patet etiam ex praedictis, quod Deus non intelligit per aliam speciem quam per essentiam suam. The foregoing exposition makes it clear…

Many years ago when I was still an undergraduate, I took a general psychology course as one of those annoying Liberal Arts electives that nerds—even at technical schools—are forced to endure. It…

Optimism makes us perpetual enemies of those future moments that do not meet our expectations, which means all future moments. It is when we expect nothing from the future that we are free to…

A " vermilion tika ", a custom of applying vermilion powder on the forehead or in the hairline, primarily by married women in South Aian cultures, particularly in Nepal and India, is a tradition…

I&#8217;ve just complete a project using AI, namely Claude. It involved linguistics. I&#8217;m new to using AI seriously; I first used Claude only a month ago. AI has been mostly irrelevant to what I…

Chicago Cubs Baseball Club, LLC v. Dunican, No. 24-cv-05086, 2026 WL 2937177 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 30, 2026) The Cubs play at Wrigley Field, a historic open-air ballpark. They sell tickets and incur…

Clonfert Cathedral, not far from the banks of the River Shannon in east Galway, on ground St Brendan the Navigator first chose for a monastery around 563 (yes, that Brendan - the one whose legendary…

A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else - Anon