Normandy World War II Sites
In my fairly large collection of books on World War II (most of which are in storage at the moment) there exists all manner of perspectives on the Normandy World War II D-Day invasion....
Category: History
book notes: When Pride Still Mattered – A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
In the days leading up to the 2021-2022 Green Bay Packers season, I read a biography of Vince Lombardi that I found in (of all places) a book store in lovely Bastrop, Texas (the...
Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin Texas
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Of all the many places we visited in Russia, Saint Petersburg is the one we wish we had more time, and will hopefully return to again. Three days is just not enough; I doubt...
Texas Walk of Stars in Austin
If you’ve been to a convention in Austin and entered the Convention Center from Trinity Street, you’ve probably seen stars in the sidewalk with a name on them. You may have walked over a...
Fabergé Eggs and the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Of the 50 Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs, 44 have survived. On our trip to Russia, we saw nineteen of the forty-four. We saw ten of them when in the Kremlin Armory in Moscow (where...
White Clueless
Though my heritage is a good portion Native American, no one would take me for anything other than white. Both of my parents grew up close to dirt poor in Oklahoma (formerly known as...
Map Translation – the Central Museum of the Patriotic War (ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ)
The previous article on our series about Russia contains the translation from Russian to English of the main guide I got from our visit to the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in...
Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War (ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ) Map-Guide Translation from Russian to English
In July 2019 I had the privilege to visit Victory Park and the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia. Like many of the places in Russia there was little English translation;...