Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depr...
Ron Paul, during the 2008 presidential election, campaigned against the IRS and federal income tax. To me, this was a novel suggestion and it sounded crazy. No IRS? No income tax? How would th...
Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian Presidential Candidate and author of How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World, believed that finding freedom was easier done alone than changing societ...
On many of the world's lists of the best books ever written in the twentieth century, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is admirably almost always second, painfully always pipped by the old genius...
Ezra Pound pops up everywhere, whether it be as an influence, a precursor, a patron, a link, a facilitator, a whatever; once you read literature you come into contact with the name Ezra Pound. Curious...
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My students are always asking me whether the Chinese language is hard to learn.I answered YES but using the right approach, you can easily learn it just like being amazed when watching magic tricks.B...
”Genius knows where the questions are hidden.” Mason Cooley
What exactly is the difference between the mind of a genius and the mind of an ordinary person? Michael Michalko, in his book Cracking ...
James Joyce was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882, the oldest of ten surviving children; two of his siblings died of typhoid. Joyce was initially educated by the Jesuit order at Clongowes Wood College...
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compel...
The first question my students always ask me would be "Is Chinese hard to learn? I would say 'YES, if you use the wrong method!', so, for me, Chinese isn't hard to learn at all, It's just like...
Some lessons from past time personal experiences could help you decide to revolt or not, if you live in a conservative traditional area in the world, where the elders are always right even if they are...
Who comes to mind when you hear the word "cigar" smoker? If you're like too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone...
If you are planning a European vacation, why not consider the Latium region of central western Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea? Latium, also called Laszio, is the region that includes Italy’s ca...
Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Audrey Hepburn, and even Jim Carrey all had something in common. Aside from being renowned artists, they were also afflicted with depr...
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If you've ever dreamed of witnessing the magnificence of the Great Pyramids, standing in awe before the Great Sphinx, or reveling in the treasures found in King Tut's tomb, the magic of Egypt awaits y...
My first draft of this article began something like, "here are the top ten things to do and see when you travel to Paris." My plan was to show how to plan a cheap travel excursion to Europe...
