The Master of the Game is the oldest English language book on hunting written by Edward of Norwich, the 2nd…

Thomas Eliot’s paternal grandfather was not a native of Missouri. He moved there to establish a church, to spread the…

At the time of its publication in 1915, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was outlandish, a shocking drama…

Halloween is widely believed to have originated from Celtic harvest festivals, many of which had pagan roots. Others think it’s…

On the morning of November 16th, 1957, Bernice Worden disappeared. Bernice ran the hardware shop in Plainfield, an unremarkable town…

Earnest Albert Hooton spent his entire teaching career at Harvard University. A former student wrote that his lectures “were compounded…

If you haven’t heard of Miguel de Cervantes, you need to get yourself down to the library. If you have…

Historia regum Britanniae is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written in the dusty light of 1136 by the great…

The film American Graffiti was set in California in the early sixties, and has been described by various critics as…

For hundreds of years across many cultures, garlic bulbs have been used to not only see off rabbits and moles…