Grantian Florilegium

If you've ever had a Ted Drewes "concrete," you'll know that it is the standard by which all other frozen custards are--an...

When Rudyard Kipling interviewed Mark Twain on this day in 1889, Kipling was still making his reputation while Twain was at the height of hi...

Yahoo! Bryan proposed to Elisabeth! See the exciting details in Elisabeth's No Name Pub Blog .

It was on this day in 1066 that William the Conqueror (1027-1087), a Norman prince and a cousin to the royal family of Saxon England, assemb...

Solidarity--or, in Polish, Solidarnosc--was a remarkable workers' union founded 25 years ago this month. What began as just another grou...

The mainstream media’s newspaper of record admitted late Saturday that one of its reporters fabricated part of a news story on Hurricane Kat...

Recently, I have been listening to the BBC audio productions of The Chronicles of Narnia as I run. The experience has reminded me that the...

"I have heard higher sentiments from the lips of the poor uneducated men and women, when exerting the spirit of severe yet gentle heroi...

"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" (Luke 9:25) Charles V was one of the most remarkable me...

The first Ecumenical Council was convened in the Byzantine city of Nicea in 325 by the recently converted Roman emperor, Constantine. It wa...