The Chilly Kilkenny Morning That Rewrote Legal Absurdity On the grey, frost-bitten morning of Sunday, November 3, 1324, an enormous crowd gathered in the commercial...
On November 2, 1418, while Western Europe was busy tearing itself apart in the aftermath of the Council of Constance and the endless mud-soaked theater...
Most people treat the final day of October as an excuse to wrap themselves in synthetic cobwebs, consume miniature candy bars at an alarming clip,...
On the crisp, salt-scoured morning of Monday, October 30, 1340, four rulers stood at the southernmost hem of Western Europe, staring across a shallow, brackish...
On Tuesday, October 30, 1894, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued Patent Number 528,527 to an inventor from Rochester, New York, named Daniel...
The late autumn air of Paris in the year of our Lord 1390 did not smell like croissants or romantic strolls along the Seine. It...
Act I: The Great Evacuation and the Fog of Westchester On the morning of October 28, 1776, the Hudson River valley smelled of wet rot,...
On a rainy, gaslit Monday evening in London on October 26, 1863, a dozen gentlemen walked out of the autumn chill and into the Freemasons’...
The Greatest Victory Party That Never Happened If you ever feel like you have had an exhausting week where your achievements went unappreciated by upper...
On the night of October 22, 362 AD, an imperial catastrophe unfolded in a fragrant laurel grove five miles south of Antioch. The sanctuary of...
