DASH IT ALL!
THERE’S A MULTIPLICITY of punctuation marks that look quite similar: -, –, —, and ―. These are, respectively, the hyphen, the en dash, the em dash, and the horizontal bar. … Continue reading
ENJOYING CRIME CLASSICS, OBSESSIVELY PART 3
WE LEFT ANTIHERO Jack Sheppard on an adjacent rooftop after his escape from Newgate Prison. Today in Part 3, his adventure continues with differing accounts of what happened next. Either … Continue reading
ENJOYING CRIME CLASSICS, OBSESSIVELY PART 2
YESTERDAY IN Part 1, 18th-century antihero Jack Sheppard freed his moll Edgworth Bess from the St. Giles’ Bound-house lockup. Today at SimanaitisSays, we find the couple living something resembling an … Continue reading
ENJOYING CRIME CLASSICS, OBSESSIVELY PART 1
THIS ALL STARTED with a Crime Classics program on Sirius XM’s “Radio Classics.” I am prompted to share “The Incredible History of John Sheppard” here at SimanaitisSays in Part 1 … Continue reading
MARY JANE AND VOC EMISSIONS
I ENJOY CALLING it Mary Jane for old times sake. Marijuana is in the news these days because its production could worsen the emissions of VOCs, volatile organic compounds. Jason … Continue reading
ENGLISH CLERGY—ONE, A ROGUE; ANOTHER, A SCIENTIST PART 3
THE STUDENT Thomas Espin was highly motivated by viewing the Great Comet of 1874. Even in 1888 when appointed the vicar of Tow Law, in England’s northern County Durham, he … Continue reading
ENGLISH CLERGY—ONE, A ROGUE; ANOTHER, A SCIENTIST PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE encountered a real rogue of an English prelate. Today and tomorrow in Parts 2 and 3, we meet another member of the English clergy, one who was honored … Continue reading
ENGLISH CLERGY—ONE, A ROGUE; ANOTHER, A SCIENTIST PART 1
THERE’S SATISFACTION in buying a book for one reason, then coming to enjoy it for other reasons entirely. So it is with A Field Guide to the English Clergy, by … Continue reading
HURRAH FOR NEW WORLD PROJECTS!
SATIRE IS THE DIURETIC of the body politic, someone once said (and I’ve oft repeated). To see stunning examples of this, look no further than the works of New World … Continue reading
QUEEN MARY’S MODI OPERANDI
HOW WOULD ONE explain that one’s grandmother had a way of, shall we say, acquiring the treasures of others? Not kleptomania, mind, in the sense of compulsively, surreptitiously making off … Continue reading
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