The first time I stumbled across a reference to the disease known as phthiriasis (pronounced “thuh-RY-uh-sis) I was reading Plutarch’s gleeful account of the death of the Roman tyrant Sulla.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 – 78 BC), who had a… Read More
The models for the painting, "American Gothic" meant to depict a farmer and his spinster daughter, were actually Grant Wood’s sister and their family dentist.