“Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868)
Picture from the Art Renewal Center. Mr. Scott Powell, of HistoryAtOurHouse.com, says about this painting of George Washington, one of our Founding Fathers: The question …
Heroism and “Our Independence and the Constitution”
Another good scene (a third is below) from the Landmark Book Our Independence and the Constitution by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, published by Random House, New …
A Respect for Ideas and “Our Independence and the Constitution”
One of my posts of yesterday reminded me of a scene in a Landmark Book that I liked: Our Independence and the Constitution by Dorothy …
Rick Brant, Tom Swift, and More
The Rocket’s Shadow (see earlier post of today) I would recommend. It is a good book. Other books in the “Rick Brant Science-Adventure Stories” series …
A Respect For Ideas and “The Rocket’s Shadow”
Here’s an excerpt (pp. 1-2) from the science-adventure story The Rocket’s Shadow by John Blaine, (c) 1947, Grossett & Dunlap Publishers, New York: Rick Brant, …
A Wright Brothers Anecdote
…and Its Lessons for Education. The very good Landmark Books series contains a book about the Wright Brothers entitled The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American …
“Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov” by Franz Xavier Winterhalter (1805-1873)
Picture from the Art Renewal Center.
Statistics Resource: Online Data Analysis
UCLA has a resource on the Internet, the Statistical Online Computational Resource (SOCR), which allows you to do statistical analyses: one-sample t tests, simple linear …
German Cartoons and Ads From the ’30s and ’40s
On The Radio Dismuke Blog, Dismuke writes about a German cartoonist whose work he likes: Hans Fischerkoesen. Dismuke has some of Fischerkoesen’s works posted. Read …
Francis Bacon: A Quote
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” Quote attributed to Bacon’s Novum Organum, on p. 384 (section 20; right hand column) of The …