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The Women's March on Versailles

Give us this day our daily bread The women brought whatever weapons they could. Some of those weapons saw use. The Women's March on Washington gets a lot of press buzz, but it's far from the first…

Song of Solomon: 7

Song of Solomon Chapter 7 1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Thy…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Marianne's Dream

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To Constantia, SingingMarianne's Dream Composed at Marlow, 1817. Published in Hunt's "Literary Pocket-Book", 1819, and reprinted in "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. A…

What Makes Versailles So Special?

What makes it different from any other palace? Throughout Western Europe, centuries-old castles and palaces are spread across the countryside. Representing another lifetime and giving insight into…

Matthew: 7

Matthew Chapter 7 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And…

Brewer's: Threadneedle Street

A corruption of Thryddanen or Thryddenal Street, meaning third street from “Chepesyde” to the great thoroughfare from London Bridge to “Bushop Gate” (consisting of New Fyshe Streate,…

Brewer's: Ivory Palaces

are not unfrequently mentioned in the Old Testament. Thus (Psalm xlv. 8), “All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces;” in 1 Kings xxii. 39 we read that…