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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent." -Michel…

"Unless you take big risks you are not going to learn a lot... the interesting things that happen in life involve precipices." -Robert Storr, 11/19/10, Austin, TX

11/11/11... World War I ends on this day, in 1918. "At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month..."

"Olive oil has been more than mere food to the peoples of the Mediterranean: it has been medicinal, magical, an endless source of fascination and wonder and the fountain of…

"Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up." -Nina Garcia, Fashion Editor of Marie Claire as quoted in the New York Times

Eating and Drinking The region that is home to Florence has one of the most versatile and varied-form cooking traditions in Italy, that we have already mentioned in our tourists’…

"October 8th, 1871. On this day in 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, gniting a 2-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people,…

Incendiary by Vernon Scannell That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and…

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own." -Arthur Schopenhauer