Seeing Red

“Hunt for Red October,” “Red, Red Wine,” “Mask of the Red Death”. . . even the word RED has an Continue reading →

Rosemary for Remembrance

  “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.” (Ophelia, from  Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5. 1603. Every Continue reading →

2015: History’s Edge in review

It looks like this little blog has been getting a fair amount of attention. Best of all, it has been Continue reading →

My Favorite Christmas Markets

Christmas Markets are a popular draw for tourists in Europe.  Brochures emphasize the size and variety of the famous large Continue reading →

Operation Torch: Nov. 8, 1942

“We were ordered to proceed to Liverpool and get on a ship and go wherever it took us.” Harry Marlow, Continue reading →

Memorial in the Vosges: July-October 1915

One hundred years ago this October the battered hillsides of Le Linge ceased to be an actively contested battleground and Continue reading →

What is it about Trolls?

They are all over Norway, at least in places frequented by tourists–in restaurants, on sidewalks, on cruise ships, and the Continue reading →

The Antikythera Mechanism

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, called it “one of the greatest basic mechanical inventions of Continue reading →