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Dogecoin, dohj’-coin, has me stymied in both definition and way it’s said.  It’s a divisive cryptocurrency.

Biweekly column by Sharon Kennedy

The history of rhubarb To expand a little more about the name and history of this rambunctious vegetable known for its power to pucker lips. Rhubarb is ...

Figuring out the correct origin of place/names can be difficult to pin down and who named Hole in the Wall is one of them "He says/she says," thing.

May 19, 2015 at 5:55pm The Arlington County Board adopted a resolution Tuesday afternoon calling on Washington’s professional football team to change its name. The resolution was introduced by County Board member Walter Tejada, who said using the name Redskins as a reference to Native Americans is “objectionable to many Americans, Virginians and Arlingtonians.” In introducing the resolution, Tejada noted that the team is in talks to move from its current home at FedEx Field, perhaps to V...

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention March 17, 2021 Vladimir Nabokov remains one of the most polarizing of the major novelists who have written in English. His admirers are passionate about him. These include both critics and many novelists in England, America, and elsewhere. Some gestures of imitation have been made by other writers, though as is generally the case with writers of the first order of originality—Proust and Kafka come to mind—these efforts have not been very succes...

The date on which this piece is intended for first posting on this website, March 4th, is the date on which- for 140 years, from George Washingtons Second Inauguration in 1793 through Franklin Delano Roosevelts First in 1933- Presidents of the United States, every four years until the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution first took effect (36 times in all)- took the Oath of Office prescribed in Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of Our Nations fundamental legal document. The use of th...