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"Medic!" That cry on the battlefield means a soldier is wounded. It also means someone will almost always respond, a normally-unarmed battlefield medic. This is the known and expected outcome of that call. But where did battlefield medicine start and how did evolve? Battlefield Medics: How Warfare Changed the History of Medicine, by Martin King,… Continue reading Book Review By Seawriter: Battlefield Medicine from Ancient Egypt to Modern Afghanistan
In which my friend Seawriter calls his own number. My new book hits the bookstores today: The Vanished Texas Coast. (You can get it at Amazon or Arcadia Publishing if you cannot find it in your local bookstore.) It is a collection of short essays about incidents in Texas maritime history, linked by the theme that they are all… Continue reading Book Review by Seawriter: An Historian’s Search for Truth
TBH, I've written on a similar topic before in my post The Right Tool for the Job. But today I'm asking a slightly different question: What is the one single-purpose tool in your kitchen for which you are most grateful (pun intended) when you have to accomplish a job which, without said tool, would be… Continue reading What’s the Most Useful Tool in Your Kitchen?
The term “comorbidity” is a word that, three years ago, I doubt one in ten men-on-the-street would have been able to accurately define. Its prefix is derived from the Latin word meaning “together” or “at once,” and its suffix comes from the Latin word meaning “disease.” It’s a word that’s very familiar to anyone who… Continue reading Cuomorbidity
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!–Tennyson, Ulysses I don’t often think of… Continue reading “I am a part of all that I have met”
Inspired by a recent Ricochet "members only" post on folk and traditional music. First: Let's be clear. If your idea of "folk music" is Peter Paul and Mary, then stop right now. Puff, the Magic Dragon? Crimenutely. Most else they recorded was derivative. And somehow, even when that they derived from wasn't fatuous, they managed… Continue reading The Eriskay Love Lilt
Can't do better, IMHO, than Aaron Copeland's Hoe Down: https://youtu.be/6ajQYANLiug
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries London, England was the world’s greatest city. Even today it ranks in the top ten. London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City, by Margarette Lincoln examines London’s most formative years; between the death of Queen Elizabeth I and the reign of King William III.… Continue reading Book Review by Seawriter: London During its Launch to Greatness