Dowbrigade

OK Pop Quiz
– What is the first name of the Russian Ballerina who reportedly lost
her job for being too tall and heavy for the male dancers to lift?
Well, if you don’t [...]

The blogging may lag for the next few days, as I am hard at work designing the beginner’s sessions for BloggerCon, which will be delivered (Gulp!) two weeks from today. After several extensive rewrites, I think we are finally on the right track. As soon as I have something worth posting I will let [...]

The supple, tiled skin of alligators, never really out
of fashion, is all the rage this fall, featured in Prada’s Manhattan
showroom, Chanel’s full-page magazine ads and Polo Ralph Lauren’s new
[...]

This is the Library of Congress manuscript
 

According to a manuscript recently uncovered by the Library
of Congress, American Patriot Nathan Hale, patron saint of the CIA and
acknowledged by them as the first American to [...]