Tag: Downfall

I loved my basement as a kid. The cool concrete floors, the drop-of-a-pin silence, the old mangey couch cushions that could turn a drab room into a harrowing fortress adventure — it was a grand escape. But my favorite thing was the boxes full of hundreds of old National Geographic magazines...

I loved my basement as a kid. The cool concrete floors, the drop-of-a-pin silence, the old mangey couch cushions that could turn a drab room into a harrowing fortress adventure — it was a grand escape. But my favorite thing was the boxes full of hundreds of old National Geographic magazines...

Do you know the easiest way to cut the value of a diamond in half? Buy it. While that’s supposed to be a joke, it’s also a true fact — and one that many diamond owners have found out just a little too late. “Diamonds are forever,” we’re told — but t...

On January 21, 2017 Mr. Trump became President Trump. It was unexpected and against all odds, with special thanks to James Comey’s announcement, 10 days before the election, that he had re-opened the investigation into Hillary’s e-mail server, but that day, as he raised his hand to take ...

As part of a trio of sites — the East St. Louis mounds, St. Louis mounds, and Collinsville mounds (known collectively as “Greater Cahokia”) — Cahokia was the center of political, religious, and social life for emergent Mississippian culture. At its height, Cahokia w...

Along the Eurasian grasslands many tribes and peoples existed throughout history. During ancient times these tribes and confederations very often became difficult to distinguish, but many broadly use the term of Scythian for this group of ill-defined Indo-Eurasian, although distinctions exist within...

Initially fronting the establishment were Crittle and Browne. John Crittle was an Australian-born fashion designer who had moved to London around 1963–64, quickly finding himself involved in the pop-culture scene of the time. By 1965, Crittle had secured a job working for Michael Rainey in his...