Quoted: In a 2003 interview, when asked the softball question “How are you?” he answered: “I’m mad about being old, and I’m mad about being American. Apart from that, O.K.”

History lesson from Edward Luttwak, an expert in Byzantine history.

The Byzantine empire went on and on and on, using rules of statecraft whose wisdom resonates today. The article picks a baker's half-dozen of the author's favorites.

Quoted: Similarly, ancient Greek systems of thought, including the idea that human health depended on balancing warm, cold, moist, and dry humours, naturally led to Galen’s nutritional advice to restrict consumption of excessively dry foods in order to avoid “black bile.” How, then, do our contemporary medical beliefs and socio-cultural norms combine to exclude some nutritional possibilities, and reinforce others

Over the past 12,000 years man has hunted, farmed, mined, quarried and lived on and around Dartmoor. From the early Mesolithic hunter gatherers to the modern day 'moorman', humans have left their marks on its landscape. Dartmoor has been described as the 'last wilderness'

Quoted: From the 1930s to the 1970s

To get everyone in the Halloween spirit, here's my slideshow on cemeteries for MSN City Guides...

Quoted: Steeped in history and haunted tales, cemeteries are an integral part of American tradition. Take a photographic tour of 9 burial grounds ranging from somber to spooky.

Quoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.

Timeline for Knowledge Organization is an outline of the history of knowledge organization. One might say, however, that it displays a subjective or even a false story because bibliometrics, information retrieval, Internet search engines etc. are not a part of the history of a field "knowledge organization" as founded by people like Charles A. Cutter, W. C. Berwick Sayers, Henry E. Bliss and Ernest Cushington Richardson. Most of the technological innovations are not based in research done in the tradition which gave rise to the term "knowledge organization" but are based on findings from external disciplines such as computer science and linguistics.

Quoted: A photographer who has made the most of inside access to document revolutionary change discusses what it is like to see history unfold, from the outside.