Category Archives: Life

Look at our calendar.  It’s filled with “holidays” that are flawed in one way or another… and I think it is sapping our National strength. First… let’s define a holiday.  A “proper” holiday is a day when banks are closed, … Continue reading →

Although it was the Etruscans who first introduced gladiatorial games to the civilized world, it would be the Romans who would give greatest expression to this form of entertainment. The first record of gladiator combat took place in 264 BCE.  … Continue reading →

76 years ago on this very day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mixed the first legal martini in White House in 13 years… when Utah (can you believe Utah!) became the 36th State to repeal the 18th Amendment. FDR preferred a Gibson … Continue reading →

It was Edward IV in 1492 who granted the charter for the creation of the barber’s guild… The Company of Barbers. Surgeons were given a charter 30 years later… giving you an idea what was considered more important at the … Continue reading →