Gilbert Burns recalled that his brother Robert had a dog called Luath that was a great favourite but, tragically, was killed by someone the night before his father's death in early 1786 and he ...
Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...
In 2020, she was perfect casting as Miss Bates, the prattling spinster in Jane Austen’s Emma. Then came Covid. But mostly, a comic actor credited with almost singlehandedly reviving the sitcom ...
The bleak land around Lop Nor, a salt lake in the Takla Makan Desert of Red China’s Sinkiang province, is one of the most remote and unpleasant places on earth. But last week Lop Nor was ...
They sound more like somebody pulled the fire alarm. At MSNBC, they are prattling about fascism at an ever-growing amount. (We covered Wednesday how Chris Hayes was actually suggesting MORE ...