Mid-September for the feast of Cyprian
A market festival occurred there every year in mid-September for the feast of Cyprian, the martyred Christian bishop of Africa in the third century....
Church of San Vitale in Ravenna
We know him best from one portrait, made when he was in his sixties and shimmering in colored mosaic stone on the walls of...
Journalism in Tennessee part 1
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, universally known under his pen-name of Mark Twain, was born at Florida, Mo., in 1835. His...
Journalism in Tennessee part 2
John W. Blossom, Esq., the able editor of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, arrived in the city yesterday. He is stopping...
Journalism in Tennessee part 3
That ass, Blossom, of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, is down here again sponging at the Van Buren.
We observe that the...
Journalism in Tennessee part 4
They then talked about the elections and the crops while they reloaded, and I fell to tying up my wounds. But presently they opened...
Journalism in Tennessee part 5
I said, “I`ll have to get you to excuse me; I think maybe I might write to suit you after a while; as soon...
