I recently stumbled across the old, 1994 comedy "Dumb and Dumber" on Netflix. I'm sure you know it, probably even have seen it (even if you won't admit it). By this point, the tale of two nimrods trekking across country to return what they assume is a woman's left-behind briefcase is pretty much considered a … Continue reading Statistically Speaking…

The name Martin Frobisher is, to all but the most hardcore of historians, rarely remembered among the name of the great British explorers of the 1500's. And, if mentioned at all, it's usually not in conjunction with his several successful trading voyages or even his sketchy foray into piracy. No, Martin Frobisher is usually only … Continue reading A Fool’s Errand

George Gordon Byron, more famously known as Lord Byron, was a prolific English romantic poet, though he is mostly known for Don Juan, a 17-cantos poem whose scandalous subject matter (in it, he openly expresses his disgust of fellow poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) only lends to its popularity among scholars of English … Continue reading The Greatest Crime in Literary History

Anneleis Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929, the second of two daughters born to Otto and Edith Frank. Life in post-World War I Germany was rough, not only because unemployment was high and poverty was severe, but also because Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, seizing on the country's growing anger, were … Continue reading Prinsengracht 263