Dots 27 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm

Hat tip to Madame Scherzo.

Lycurgus Cup Proves Romans Has Nanotech 27 Aug 2013 | 05:22 pm

Smithsonian magazine: The colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a super­sensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint bio...

Orson Wells Had a Winston Churchill Story 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm

“You Don’t Swim in the Mary River” 26 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm

Worldnews NBC: An Australian camper was missing and presumed dead after being snatched by a crocodile in front of onlookers as he swam across a river with a friend, police told local media Sunday. T...

Healthcare Reform’s Real Results 26 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm

Hat tip to Clarice Feldman [FB].

Melvin’s 93rd Birthday 26 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm

photo: Julie Martin Matheson. Famed retired Orange County huntsman, who still hunts hounds as Master of his own Bath County pack, Melvin Poe celebrated his 93rd birthday with a pre-season trail ride ...

Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Right 25 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm

Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming “Jack” Churchill, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar (16 September 1906 – 8 March 1996), nicknamed Fighting Jack Churchill and Mad Jack, was a British soldier who fough...

Lord Byron’s Lifestyle 25 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm

Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley on Lord Byron’s lifestyle. Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom… at twelve. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eig...

La Difference 25 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm

Zanjeer, Hero of Bombay 24 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm

Parachutiste Francais forwarded the above photo with the caption: UN BEL HOMMAGE POUR UN VRAI HÉROS ! Ce chien s’appel Zanjeer. Il a sauvé des millers de vies pendant la série d’attentats à Bombay ...