Archive for July 2011
Public toilets, heads of state and –teddy bears?
A few people have weighed in with answers to my question on a previous post outside the comments box. Some of them were too good not to share. In addition to vespesianos and London bobbies, here are some more eponymous tributes to heads of state, statesmen, and mere politicians: 1. The Teddy bear, named after…
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The First Common Market?
My Own True Love and I leave next week for Belgium and my thoughts are turning toward Waterloo, Flanders Field, and the Hanseatic League.* Especially the Hanseatic League. I’m fascinated by traveling merchants, from the Silk Road caravans that brought luxury goods from China and India to the Muslim peddlers who sold dry goods…
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It’s a Date!
Several readers of this blog have complained that I forget to include dates in my blog posts. It’s a fair cop. It’s not that I don’t know historical dates. (Okay, sometimes I don’t know the exact date, but I know where to look it up.) I even agree that dates are valuable, taken in small…
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