Art Inspired by the Berlin Wall

This is pretty cool.

Bring out your dead

...because apparently, in France, you can marry them.

Just for Landsman

Enjoy Daniel "Time Goblin Hunter" Landsman's video essay on WWII:

Don't Hassel the Hoff

For all you Hasselhoff lovers out there: how much of a role did he play in the end of the Cold War?

Lessons to be learned from the Hapsburgs

There are many. One of the oft-overlooked ones is: don't marry your cousins. Thanks to Dr. Lavine for the link.






Charles II of Spain

Galileo's Telescope, On Tour

If you happen to be in Philadelphia anytime soon, be sure to check out one of Galileo's handmade telescopes, which is on tour outside Italy for the first time.


ps- that's not just a picture of my nostrils. It's me illegally taking a picture with Galileo's finger, which is in the reliquary on the shelf. Look closely.

Whaaa???!!!

The Roman Catholic Church is offering indulgences again. Yes, those indulgences. "The good news is," says the editor of the Catholic magazine America, "we're not selling them." Sorry, Tetzel.