Archives for 2014

John Paul Jones Has Only Three Guns Left

"While the fire of the Serapis was continued without intermission from the whole of her lower-deck battery, the only guns that were still fired from

About half-past seven the Bonhomme Richard hauled up her courses and rounded-to on the weather or larboard quarter of the Serapis,Continuing “I Have

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The ‘Bon Homme Richard’ Sights the British Convoy.IntroductionFor

Here is an interesting conversation between two scientists at Oxford University.

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Plan of Attack.IntroductionThe pirates of the Caribbean prospered most

From the Humor Department:Hear ye! Hear ye! This honorable court’s now in session and if any galoot wants to snort afore we start, let him step at

"For more than a century they and their descendants have been distinguished for the useful and important part they have taken in every matter deeply

As we wander among the old burying-grounds of those founders of Western Canada and New Brunswick, and stand by the gray, moss-covered tablets, with