In depth recounting of my global wandering
Some notable happenings associated with the IV Olympiad – London 1908. Initially awarded to Rome, the Games of the IV Olympiad were moved to London after Mount Vesuvius erupted on 7 April 1906, devastating the city of Naples and requiring …
Welcome to London. Unlike my trips to Montreal and Atlanta but rather more like my trips to other Olympic host cities, I’ve made only one trip to London which is, as of 2021 the only city to have hosted the …
De Soto – the explorer not the car. Some historians speculate that ego impelled Hernando de Soto to return to North America. De Soto amassed great wealth with Francisco Pizarro in conquering the Incas. On returning to Spain, he likely …
The language map I used to guide my exploration of First Nations in Canada, once again proved helpful as I turned my attention to earliest humans to inhabit the southeastern United States. Their languages belong to a group identified as …
In the time before humans. If we took the WABAC Machine far enough into the past, we would see that many of the same forces that shaped Montreal and eastern Canada also played a part in shaping the geology of …