Over the Thanksgiving holiday I spent several days in Boston, and I was able to get to the Museum of Fine Arts to see the Goya exhibit. (Fun fact: on days when the museum closes at 4:45, you can get… Read More
The Canary Islands were named by the ancient Romans for the wild dogs that roamed there. (Canis is Latin for dog.) It was only later that they named the native songbirds "canaries."