Around 1300 an English poet put Richard the Lionheart on crusade in rhyming couplets. In Richard Coer de Lyon the king’s army raises a siege tower, and the poem says of it: “A tour ful strong, That queyntyly engynours made.” […]
Every argument for freedom eventually runs into the same practical objection. If anyone can start a school, a land trust, a clinic, or a cooperative, how is anyone supposed to know which ones are any good? A parent choosing a […]
Historic events usually don't arrive on a date. The numerals Europe counts with didn't have a launch day. Leonardo of Pisa, the mathematician later called Fibonacci, brought the Hindu-Arabic system to Italian merchants in his Liber Abaci in 1202, and […]
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