So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have …

The 1900 Olympics featured Cricket as a sport. Only two teams played: Britain and France. The majority of the French team consisted of British ex-pats.

I was reading "Venice: A Traveller's Reader" by John Julius Norwich and found an early mention of something like a guillotine from 1646. This excerpt is from the diary of John Evelyn. "The next day I saw a wretch executed who had murther'd his master, for which he had his …

For was there ever anything projected, that savored any way of newness or renewing, but the same endured many a storm of gainsaying and opposition? Translators to the reader preface to the King James Version

I recently finished reading Ron Chernow's Hamilton and thought I'd provide a few quotes for anyone who's interested.

One who knew his habits of study said of him that when he had a serious object to accomplish, his practice was to reflect on it previously. And when he had gone …