As a final farewell to summer (*sniff*) I thought I’d post some amazing panoramic images from the Library of Congress, showing bathing beauties from the “aughts,” teens, and twenties. But then I realized there were no people of color in… Read More
Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400) was buried in what is now the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey, but not because he had written Canterbury Tales. He was granted a plot for being “Clerk of Works” to the palace of Westminster.