Friday, 22 August 1485, Bosworth Field – “Richard’s corpse, naked and torn by wounds, was bound across a horse, with his head and long hair hanging down, bloody and hideous, and in this condition borne into Leicester for all men to see”.
Friday, 22 August 1485, Bosworth Field – “Richard’s corpse, naked and torn by wounds, was bound across a horse, with his head and long hair hanging down, bloody and hideous, and in this condition borne into Leicester for all men to see”.
By tech-speak, I mean the weirdly impenetrable terminology used by technical writers.
The motes of dust dance in the light, gracefully swirling inside the beam that reveals what the darkness hides.
We are obsessed by time. We never have enough of it. We’d like to save it, but we can’t avoid spending it.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (480-425 B.C.) wrote the earliest account of the geography, people and customs of the ancient world.
That’s the title of Alexander King’s autobiography. The enemy he refers to is himself.
Never heard of him? Not surprising.
He wasn’t as famous as Cochise or Geronimo, though many consider him the equal of both as warrior, and perhaps better as a military strategist.
(Fiction)
Elijah had the new pump handle about in place when the arrow hit him just below his right knee.
It’s a mystifying business, this business of humor – deadly, too, comedians are always talking about, “killin’ their audience.
Did ever you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted hog,
A tall shanghai rooster, and an old yeller dog.