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Many thanks to Nancy who tactfully reminded me that summer is quickly approaching and it is in my best interests to have some books li...

"The city of Babylon, 'the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency,' 'the lady of kingdoms,' lay quiet under the silve...

© Cleo @ Classical Carousel Ugh!  I don't know how else to say it.  Most of April was rain and not just regular rain, but capricio...

"Herodotus of Halicarnassus here presents his research so that human events do not fade with time." Herodotus was born in Hali...

"One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins." While this book is numbered three in the Moomin ...

Book IX (Calliope) "When Alexandros returned and conveyed to Mardonios the response of the Athenians, Mardonios set out from T...

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec source Wikimedia Commons Ah, my first essay by Aldous Huxley and I didn't know what style to expect.  He fi...