Ernest Hemingway loved the hunt. Here he stands beside a marlin he caught off the coasts of Cuba. Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Ernest Hemingway saw life as a losing battle. Though life would beat you and shred you and knock your teeth in, Hemingway thought he could save his dignity by living dangerously, but bravely. When he was 19, he wrote in a letter to his family, “And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered. Read More...
Pair of Chicago mass shootings leaves 4 dead, several others injured Four people were killed and several others were wounded Sunday in two separate mass shootings across Chicago.
CHICAGO - Three people are dead, including a 14-year-old boy, and one other person was hospitalized after two gunmen opened fire in a South Side home.
The incident happened just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the 8000 block of South Vincennes Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood. Read More...
Many of these raunchy images were drawn by bored scribes who were tired of copying out books by hand — and wanted to leave a profane surprise for readers. A mixed-up man, drawn circa 1260.The Rutland Psalter Two people and a bird seem oddly entangled in this medieval doodle.Marguerite's Hours Here, a human-like creature holds what appears to be his fin in the air as a monster shoots him with an arrow in the rear end. Read More...
