March: Aesop’s Fable In 1476 William Caxton introduced the printing press to England and became the first English retailer of printed books. He also was a translator, who translated works from Latin into English and then printed and sold them to Englishmen. This was huge because once books
March: Caesar and Washington I guess I could give this article the title: “A Tale of Two Generals.” One who saw an opportunity to grab power for himself and become dictator and did so. And the other who saw the same opportunity and declined. Both of these generals
March: Salem Witches On March 1, 1692, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and a slave named Tituba were arrested and accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. The three young women were not model citizens. In fact some of their behaviors were, at best, strange. The church/government was not at
Galileo, And Yet It Moves No one can be blamed for not knowing who Bartolome Estaban Murillo was. One would have to be a connoisseur of Spanish Baroque artists to have even heard of him. I am not such a connoisseur. I came across Murillo by accident. In
On Feb. 4, 1906, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born to his parents, Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer in what today is the city of Wroclaw, Poland. He was raised and educated a Lutheran, receiving a degree from the University of Berlin when he was 21 and a Master