Sonny's Castle Dangerous

The September 29 issue of The Economist contains an article with this headline: "The Faint Smell of Dog Fart" . The story, which i...

512 pp;  Chicago Review Press, 2008 ISBN-10:   1556527594 In this episode in Rosemary Sutcliff's fine Arthurian novel Sword at Suns...

The English knight William Marshall was regent of England under Henry III, as mentioned in  a previous post, The Brussels Hoard . In this t...

The Brussels Hoard of 1908 The Long Cross Coinage of Henry III by Ron Churchill and Bob Thomas Baldwin’s and the British Numismatic So...

The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser Barrie and Jenkins, 1971, 384 pages In his ...

Bearing out the truth of a previous post: hidden mysteries abound in England. Here we have a true story from the Daily Telegraph (London). W...

St. Martin's Press 320 pages; February 28, 2012 On one level this is a boarding school story and a coming-of-age novel. That’s go...

Edmund Leighton (1900) Some may call this sentimental, kitschy, or worse. But still, there's something about it...

Metal detector hobbyists have discovered a hoard of Celtic coins in the Channel Islands. And it's a big hoard. Imagine digging a hol...

Thirsting for esoteric knowledge, I set forth to read The Holy Grail: History, Legend and Symbolism by Arthur Edward Waite. It's one of ...

Some notable things that happened in my life this year: Left my employer of 7 years due to corporate merger. Not as bad as it sounds; it was...

It's New Year's Eve, time once again to post my list of books read during 2011. First, my favorites. In the fiction category, Daniel...

Last night I came to grips with a situation that has long troubled me. There’s an air conditioner vent right next to my favorite chair in ...

Important news: there are great job opportunities for casino dealers right here in my home town. I could be trained and licensed in mere mo...

Here's a list of the books I've read in the past year. I'll begin with the most memorable in each genre: The Last Stand: Custer,...

I'd really appreciate some assistance in identifying the manufacturer of these pipes. I purchased them in 1985 from a retailer known as...

This film starring Helen Mirren hit US theaters in 1981. I remember the trailer. “See Hussy !” the voice-over commanded. Still smitten by Mi...

A feast is underway when The Green Knight appears in King Arthur's hall: "Nay, King Arthur," cried the knight in a great voice...

519 pages; Harper; 1995 Counter to what I expected, this is far more than a novelty book. It has well-drawn characters with strong identit...

“…the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspect...