Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! While not Irish myself, I do have quite a few Irish relatives by marriage on my Italian mother’s side. (“They meet each other in church!” as my Irish uncle-by-marriage once cheerfully explained to me.) To honor… Read More
When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, his body was said to have been preserved in a coffin filled with honey for the long trip back. (He was buried not in Macedonia but in Alexandria.)