I’ve been researching the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and I got curious about writing desks. They’ve evolved quite a bit over the past two hundred years, from this:To this:Yeah, that’s my treadmill desk. Not that my desk represents… Read More
Upon her return from the Crimean war zone, Florence Nightingale (1820- 1910) lived to old age with as many as seventeen cats as her companions. Some were named after famous people, like Disraeli, Gladstone, and Bismarck.