While history is one of my favorite things, the history of language is the epicenter of my favorite historical things to explore. For about two
Category: War
“It’s a Catch-22”
“It’s a catch-22; you gotta have money to make money.” “It’s a catch-22; you can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience
SPAM: A Mystery behind the Mystery Meat
I don’t like spam. I’m sure that you don’t either. Oh, you thought I was claiming an abrupt hatred for the canned ‘miracle meat’? Oh
Hair turned White from Fright
In the classic slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (and the 8 other related Nightmare movies) Freddy Kruger visits teenagers in their dreams; and when
Top Cat’s Top 10: Most Influential Speeches
Before every heavy weight lifting session when I was in college, I would listen to the Al Pacino’s “Inch by Inch” speech from the movie
100th Year Anniversary of the End of a War and the Death of a Poet
In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, led a delegation to (then General) Dwight Eisenhower to expand the day to not
