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 …
