Middlebrook
This is Hull country. This is Middlebrook, Virginia. German Holls/Hohls got here from the Palatine via Rotterdam and Philadelphia around 1750. They […]
Month: April 2024
Real Women: Natalie Portman.
“You don’t need the money with a face like that.” Born in Jerusalem in the summer of 1981, she is a citizen […]
The Slackoisie
Urban Dictionary: Slackoisie Slackoisie. Prounounced “Slack-wah-zee”. This term was coined by J. Daniel Hull, Esq., author of the “What About Clients?” blawg, […]
Congressman Daniel Sickles: Original Gangster, Radical Dude.
In 1859, in Lafayette Park, U.S. Representative Daniel Sickles shot and killed fellow lawyer Philip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott […]
Another Holy Surprise: Georgetown’s Potomac Boat Club.
Below is a photograph of Georgetown near Key Bridge (the bridge barely out of the picture on the right) on the Potomac […]
Young Ben Disraeli: On Writing Well.
When I want to read a good book, I write one. –Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Euripides on Speech, Expression, Humor, Satire.
This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought. “” EurÃpides (480-406 BC)
