Bronze Alamo Cannon Spared From Mysterious ‘Growing’ Substance - An 18th-century bronze cannon used in the Battle of the Alamo has been the subject of a preservation effort to remove an unusual substance that was growing mysteriously on its surface. The effort, led by a team of specialists from the anthropology department at Texas A&M University, involved the development and application of a special […]
A Cabinet of Clowns - There is the secretary of defense sharing battle plans with his third wife, a former Fox News producer, on Signal. His top aides have all quit or been fired. The department is leaking like a sieve about its leader. Disarray, they say. He was stunningly unqualified for the job in the first instance (joke of […]
News From Around the South, 4/21 to 4/28 - SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Once in a lifetime opportunity’: Spartanburg Revolutionary War flag acquired by library SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – A significant piece of local and American history – one no one knew existed for over 200 years – will soon return home to Spartanburg County. During Monday’s Spartanburg County Council Meeting, Todd Stephens, Spartanburg County […]
The Worst Pope in History - A little over a year ago, I spent a week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, a university-like organization of scholars that explores ideas of interest to the Vatican. Last year, the Academy addressed the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas on the 750th anniversary […]
Harriet Tubman stripped, then restored to US National Park Service site for Underground Railroad - The National Parks Service has reversed course and restored references of celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman to its webpage about the Underground Railroad. A quote and image of the legendary freedom fighter — who also served a pivotal role in Beaufort County and the S.C. Lowcountry during the Civil War — that led the park service’s Underground […]
