Ciceronianus; causidicus

The Victorian Era is famous, or infamous, for a number of peculiarities.  What's been called--rather uneasily, I think--"Muscular C...

One day in 185 C.E., a large group of Christians appeared at the house of Arrius Antoninus, Roman proconsul in Asia Minor, and demanded that...

As I may have mentioned before in some post or other, "zugzwang" in chess (and perhaps in other games as well) takes place in the ...

I doubt that it's possible to be certain of anything. I don't want to say I know it's not possible to be certain of anything,...

Edgar Poe (it seems he disliked being called "Edgar Allan Poe") wrote a short story with the interesting title The Imp of the Perv...