Archive for the 'history' Category
So maybe I’m just a big nerd (OK, scratch the “maybe”… ) But I’m all excited about this: a free e-book of Tom Shippey’s Beowulf, a volume in Routledge’s “Critical Heritage” series.
There’s a very interesting article in a recent National Geographic about new technologies being used to investigate bog bodies - the ancient corpses found in peat bogs through much of Northern Europe.
1. Today is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I don’t really have anything to say about it, but I believe it should not be forgotten. For all who died on that terrible day - RIP.
2. Yesterday Mitt Romney was forced to grovel before the Christian Right in order to have a chance to pass the [...]