"One may smile and be a villain." Wm.Shakes.
Apparently the Bard of Avon was a shrewd business type, profiting from grain hoarding and evading taxes.
A team of researchers from Wales' Aberystwyth University--( Is this just the revenge of the Welsh??)-- says this:
"Over a 15-year period (Shakes…
(Not Lincoln.)
On this glorious day honoring US prezzes--well, Lincoln and Washington, technically--we refer you to a blog entry by writer and novelist Heather Lockman, posted February 12.
"It’s Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. I baked an old-fashioned cake.
Believe me, I know that sounds geeky.…
"Darwin was an unusual gourmet. He had a distinctly scientific approach to eating and was never more satisfied than when digesting the rarest species known to the palate.
As a student at Cambridge, Darwin presided over the Glutton Club, which met weekly in order to seek out and eat 'strange flesh'.…
