Archive for the 'History' Category

Jan 20 2011

The Daylight Flight of Paul Revere

Published by under History,Words and Writing

Listen my children and you shall hear What my grandfather thought of Paul Revere I read somewhere long ago that the problem with a liar is not that he can’t be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. It’s a wonderful insight, and I suspect something similar can be said of historians, who make [...]

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Jul 20 2008

The Dying of Old Roads

Published by under History,Places

Click Here to View the Gallery It comes up occasionally, among antiquarians and history buffs, and those given to poking around in ruins and old documents: what sort of fingerprints our great civilization would leave on the land if it were suddenly to disappear, as so many civilizations of the past seem in retrospect to [...]

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