by Ralph Benko | Aug 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 The Adventures of Pinocchio is a classic children’s story, by Carlo Collodi, about a wooden puppet who gets turned into a real boy. Image courtesy of Wikipedia The story can be taken as a very elegant metaphor for...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 8th, 2013 William Jennings Bryan, famous orator and leader of the prairie populist movement, ran for president, and lost, on the platform of free coinage of silver at 16 to one — and against the gold standard — three...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 Charles Dawes was one of the truly great men of his era. Inaugurated, under Coolidge, in 1925 as 30th Vice President of the United States (and serving contentiously, Dawes being a far better money man than politician), he...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 1st, 2013 “ARISTOPHANES,” says the Harvard Classics, was “the greatest of comic writers in Greek and, in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has...
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