By Shaina Steinberg My mother was born in 1948. Looking back at the photos and advertisements from her youth, you would never know less than three years before she arrived, Europe was engulfed by a brutal, bloody war that spared neither soldier nor civilian. Even those in the relative safety of America were fighting their […]
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Mysteries for all ten historical periods
Mysteries for all ten historical periods Does humanity, as travelers on the ship called Earth, steer the ship, or are we merely passengers? Classical Antiquity This term refers to a broad range of time. In terms of significance, it may be narrowed distinctly to the years 300-600 BCE. Like the bottom stones of the pyramids, […]
Private Lives of Great Detectives: From Sherlock Holmes to Spenser
Private Lives of Great Detectives: From Sherlock Holmes to Spenser In 1973, I met another one-name tough guy via paperback and began following him, this one a Boston P.I. named Spenser. Robert B. Parker “grounded” Spenser by making him a former lieutenant during the Korean War, as Parker had been. The Spenser character already had […]