First, a random housekeeping note. The hajj in 2010 is scheduled for November 14th to 17th. In case you were planning on visiting Mecca in 2010, that’s the time you should go. The real reason for this post? The Chicago Cubs. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam wrote a new song about the Cubs — “GoContinue reading “On Songs Morphing Back and Forth”
Daily Archives: September 29, 2008
On Nelson’s Birthday
Two-hundred and fifty years ago today — September 29, 1758 — Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. The hero of the Nile and Trafalgar, Nelson and his fleets kept Napoleon’s navy at bay.