Archive for July 2011
Public Toilets and Heads of State
As those of you who are reading along know, I recently learned that public toilets are called vespasianos in Italy, after the Roman emperor Vespasian, who introduced the concept to the empire. This led my brain to London bobbies, named after British Prime Minister Robert Peel, who founded the London police when he was Home…
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A lagniappe
Dear Readers: I’m guest-blogging today at Karen Elliot’s Blog: Finding Your Way Through the Civil War Visit. Say hi. Sit a spell.
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Tough Broads of the Civil War
I’ve said it before: If you hang out in Popular History Land, or even Book World these days, it’s impossible to ignore the American Civil War and its sesquicentennial. Civil War references are everywhere. The most recent bit of Civil War “stuff” to start my brain churning was a review of a new book by…
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