Dark Heart

Copyright is the protection afforded by the creator of an original work. It doesn’t extend to the people who created the tools for that expression.

Who is Saint Valentine? His name is now a byword for romance and all things heart and flowers on February 14, but there is so much more to this man than just romance.

Today, rhetoric gets a bad rap. Rhetoric has come to mean empty words and insincerity, but it wasn’t always this way.

The Roman empire might have long gone, but its legacy remains strong even to this day. Did you know that sixty percent of the English language comes from Latin?

It might come as a surprise to many to discover that back in ancient Rome there were women doctors. Those un-PC Romans even had a gendered term for them – medicae – as opposed to medicus for men.

One can’t look at Ancient Rome without being in awe of buildings that have lasted more than a thousand years. How did they do it? They mastered the art of concrete.

Those Romans weren’t all work, you know. They rather liked their summer holidays – although the transportation wasn’t as comfortable as a first class airline seat.

Long before there was Indiana Jones, there was another enthusiastic amateur British explorer in the 1960s by the name Dr. Robert Ferrand Paget who worked at an NATO base in Italy.

Sometimes we in the 21st century world with instant access to information, electricity, food and water tend to take all of our technological advances for granted.