Sonny's Castle Dangerous

By Bob Tralins Belmont Books. 1967. Paper. “Ring-a-ding” was an expression popularized by Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack pals. How did...

by Thomas Blamer and Richard Shulman Wyndham Books, 1982; 206 pages ISBN 0-671-43224-9 When Dow 3,000 was published in 1982, it was...

Today is my 64th birthday. This has opened my eyes to many things.  I've come to the realization that 64 is a special number. A number g...

I noticed today that two female professors at the University of Rochester are among those named  “Person of Year: Silence Breakers” by Time ...

It's been a big week for those interested in buried treasure. The latest issue of Coin World magazine reports two significant finds. I...

A friend sent me this London newspaper poster recently.  It reminds me of the hawker who sold newspapers in the Baker Street Underground sta...

Thanksgiving is a time for happiness, and family, and togetherness. On this day we set aside our differences and share the blessings of good...

A house in our neighborhood is decked out with the most disturbing Halloween decorations I've ever seen. The theme: an insane asylum, po...

The next X-Men movie spinoff, The New Mutants , features Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane. This sets up an earth-shattering possibility. It has...

Metal detectorists recently found 282 Celtic coins in a farmer's field in Lincolnshire.  This hoard is particularly interesting because...

I recently decided to read a page of the Bible each day. Through this effort, I reasoned, it will take only 2,179 days to read the entire bo...

Among the pleasures of retirement is the freedom to research anything that arouses my curiosity. That is what led me to the Urim and the Thu...

I read recently of the theory of the multiverse, which states that our reality may be just one of a huge number of parallel universes. Artic...

Such has been my status for the past three years. I never pictured myself as the sort of person who retired early. But somehow events and ch...

By Elaine H. Pagels 1979;  Vintage Books/Random House;  182 pages ISBN 0-679-72453-2 I wasn't seeking religious enlightenment when I...

I've long thought that "Bitches Crystal" is one of the best tracks on Emerson Lake & Palmer's 1971 LP  Tarkus.   It h...

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.  In the past week I've seen Alien: Covenant, Prometheus and Logan . The experience has left me fee...

After a four-hour bender  at a neighborhood tavern in Youngwood PA,   including "shots of liquor," this patron became so intoxicat...

When it comes to self-castration stories, this one tops this list. It's from The Latrobe (PA) Bulletin. Briefly: this person castrated h...

Treasure hunters are still finding gold coins from a Spanish fleet that sank off Vero Beach, Florida in 1715.  The most recent discoveries: ...