Recent Reading

| September 7, 2006

Lately, my nightly reading has been a 6-book series, A Naval History of Great Britain: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Written and published in the 1820s, the six volumes are a chronological record of every significant (and perhaps not so significant) action and expedition in which the Royal Navy participated. Gleaned by the […]

Tartan Day: Why Me?

| April 6, 2006

[This is the second of my 2006 Tartan Day posts. The first can be seen here. It’s probably more interesting than this one.] How, one might be tempted to ask, does a guy without a drop of Scots blood in him (or, if there’s a drop, it’s diluted to the point of requiring measurement in […]