By Bob Brigham Ukrainian resistance fighters continue to tell amazing anecdotes of how they are attacking invading Russian troops as the world braces for a major battle in Kyiv. “The city of Kyiv covers 325 square miles and is divided by a broad river. It has about 500,000 structures — factories, ornate churches and high-rise […]
By Agence France-Presse Egypt unveiled Saturday five ancient Pharaonic tombs at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of landmark discoveries in the area. Saqqara is a vast necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site home to more than a dozen pyramids, animal burial sites […]
By Lucian K. Truscott IV, Salon The hardest thing I do as a writer is trying to find words to describe the indescribable. It doesn’t matter what it is — beauty or bliss or sadness or tragedy or dullness or despair or horror or ecstasy or the ordinary — it’s the writer’s job. I remember […]