Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! While not Irish myself, I do have quite a few Irish relatives by marriage on my Italian mother’s side. (“They meet each other in church!” as my Irish uncle-by-marriage once cheerfully explained to me.) To honor… Read More
Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895) was a prominent businessman who worked in his family’s textile trade by day and became co-author with Karl Marx about the evils of capitalism by night. He also enjoyed fox hunting.