Category Archives: history

The First Words

May 9, 2013 – 8:46 pm

The University of Reading in England has determined that two dozen words have survived the fifteen millennium since the end of the recent Ice Age such as “You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the [...]

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Times Square Of Yore

April 6, 2013 – 11:05 am

300,000 people pass through Times Square daily. A good percentage are tourists. They come to gawk at the theaters’ bright lights, shop at the name-brand stores, and dine at the chain restaurants. It wasn’t always that. From MAYBE TOMORROW by Peter Nolan Smith First two paragraphs of Chapter 3 Thirty-one shopping days remained until Christmas, [...]

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EASTER 1916 – YEATS

March 31, 2013 – 3:45 pm

EASTER 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or [...]

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The Difference of Three Days

March 28, 2013 – 10:13 am

According to the New Testament Yeshua bar Yosef was surrendered by the Hebrew legal council to the Roman Prefect of Judaea. The Sanhedrin accused the citizen of Galilee of the blasphemy of claiming to be the King of the Jews. Pontius Pilate concluded that the healer was innocent of these charges, however the Passover crowd [...]

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Passing Judgment Over Passover

March 24, 2013 – 2:10 pm

Passover is the most important religious holiday on the Jewish Calendar. For Millenia Passaich has celebrated the Angel of Death passing over the first-borns of the Hebrew to murder the first-born of the Egyptians. This last plague of Moses freed the bonded Hebrews from the Land of the Pharaohs. The actual date has been lost [...]

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