In Amsterdam’s Historical Museum, a larger-than-life statue of Goliath standing about 6 metres tall dwarfs both onlookers and the dimunitive figure of David holding his sling. The 360-year-old wooden giant was created for a fun-park in Amsterdam during Holland’s Golden…
The Pope, a rabbi and two atheists walked into a bar. The barkeeper said, ‘Is this some kind of a joke?’ Depends on your sense of humour, of course. A few weeks ago I picked up a book at the…
Eglantyne Jebb was an unlikely person to found ‘Save the Children’. After her first year of teaching in 1900, she confessed she didn’t care for children, ‘the little wretches’. Yet she was to become the pioneer of children’s rights and…
Sarajevo, September 15, 1911: Flags flew at half-mast and black banners hung from windows and balconies as a solemn procession of students and teachers from schools across the city, joined by the English Consul and other representatives of the English…
London, like virtually every other European city older than 500 years, was for a large part made up of churches and monasteries. Hence Erasmus could ask at the time of the Reformation, what is a city if not one big…
