Mark Stanley's topics of interest range from the microscopic to the spiritual, but with a strong emphasis on the historical.
Just when I was about to give Fox News another chance to live up to its “fair and balanced” slogan I learned that anchor emeritus Brit Hume, in a January 3rd airing of Fox News Sunday, urged Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer and one of the world’s most accomplished ladies’ men, to give up [...]
1. Seventy percent of all curling stones ever made in the history of the sport come from the island of Ailsa Craig, a massive “volcanic plug” of granite emerging from the cold waters of the Firth of Clyde, halfway between Glasgow and Belfast by sea, like the smooth hump of a monolithic whale frozen in [...]
The brashness that got William Augustus Bowles thrown out of the British Army served him much better among the Chattahoochee Creeks. He spent most of a year learning the ways of the Indians, near the forks of the Apalachicola at Perryman’s Town. By the time he emerged from exile he had become as much Indian [...]
My most frequent commenter, Jan, has suggested I talk about “my pirate” in one of my next blog posts. I suppose now is a good time to start.
William Bowles was born in the British colony of Maryland in the 1760s. Several members of his father’s family were involved in the bookselling business back in London, [...]
It’s been a day and a half since my first post and I must say that the experience has been anticlimactic. Seventy unique visitors have pointed their browsers at my blog to date. I even had a handful of hits from such places as Canada, Germany, Japan and Taiwan. It was thrilling [...]
I couldn’t squeeze this into the bio section of my blog, so I’m using it here instead.
Mark Stanley has been writing stuff that very few people read since he learned to read about four decades ago. He finds it depressing to think that his only creative outlet for the last 16 years, as an archaeologist [...]