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Guinevere and Medieval Queens 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
From Medievalists.net: Authors have given Queen Guinevere of the Arthurian stories a wide variety of personalities; she has been varyingly portrayed as seductive, faithful, “fallen,” powerful, powerl...
The Tyburn Tree 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
From History of London: Executions took place at Tyburn for almost 600 years, with the first recorded as William Longbeard in 1196 and the last as John Austen in 1783. In between, tens of thousands o...
Act of Kindness 27 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
The Dauphine Marie-Antoinette consoles the wife and children of a peasant who was wounded by a deer (1773). The artist is Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger. This was seen as extraordinary act of condesc...
The Church is a Bride 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
She is not a widow. From Monsignor Charles Pope: There’s a common thread among many traditional Catholics (and some left-wingers too) that “the Church has gone down the tubes.” This seems to be a bas...
Cups and Plates 25 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Cups and plates made for Louis XVI's and Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. (Originally from Vive la Reine.)
Forced Exposure 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
A last word from Groklaw: Harvard's Berkman Center had an online class on cybersecurity and internet privacy some years ago, and the resources of the class are still online. It was about how to enhan...
Henry the Young King 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Henry the Young King was the second son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He had an older brother named William. To quote: For Eleanor, William’s birth was a special triumph of her own. At thirty...
Medallion of Marie-Antoinette 24 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
In the private apartments of Louis XVI.
The College Loan Scandal 24 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
From Rolling Stone: While it's not commonly discussed on the Hill, the government actually stands to make an enormous profit on the president's new federal student-loan system, an estimated $184 bill...
"She Told Herself She Couldn't Die" 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
From The New York Times: At the time of Boettcher’s death, at least one person was doggedly searching for him: Dawn Eden, an 18-year-old student at New York University. Raised mostly by her mom in Te...
