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The Best Adventure series of posts will list my favorite 21 adventure novels from each of the 20th Century’s first eight (socio-cultural) decades. Plus, I kicked off the series with a list of the Top 32 adventures from the 19th Century; in total...

In the fall of 1884, a slender teenager dressed in a worn suit walked into Harvard Yard. The transfer student from Boston University was Bernard Berenson, a son of a Boston tin peddler and a future world-famous art historian and connoisseur. Entering...

In the thick of a sweat-soaked, sun burnt Floridian summer, West Palm Beach’s the band in Heaven have finished their debut full-length record, Caught in a Summer Swell, slated for release on Decades Records, a boutique South Florida label. They...

YOU CAN TELL a lot about a person when you know what she loves to read, what he loves to watch.  What’s a really private guy doing with a website in which he chooses to show these to whomever drops by?  Is a puzzlement.  (You&rsquo...

July 19 In History 362: The Roman Emperor Julian, known to Christians as Julian the Apostate, left Constantinople and arrived in Antioch to prepare for the invasion of Persia.  While preparing for the invasion he met Jewish leaders to whom he promised...