After Us The Deluge

During the school year, I sit each afternoon amid a private school parking lot filled with soccer moms wielding big-butt SUVs and over-sized luxury vehicles, each jockeying for the best and the front parking...

The 5 Best Day Trips from Paris. 1 The Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles, once home of the Sun King Louis XIV covers 2000 acres and includes chapels, an opera house fifty fountains and some of the most opulent interiors in the world.

Top 10 Castles in France

Much of Europe has beautiful architecture dating from many historical periods. Much of this is apparent in the many castles throughout Europe including France. France has a large portion of Europe's beautiful...

My Grenoble

French Revolution

Causes: There were many causes of the French Revolution. One important one was the famine and poverty that plagued the commoners of France. Famine and poverty was at first caused by King Louis XIV...

Setting in the Charles Dickens Novel, A Tale of Two Cities

NOTE: This is my paper before it was corrected. I do not have the corrections to fix the problems and I know there are mistakes. Thank you. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, starts in 1775,...

Nostradamus and the Prophecy of Orval

In 1840 the French magazine L'Oracle published a story told by the baron of Manonville in his diary. During the Revolution, he was in the abbey of Orval and listened to a Prophecy that seemed to predict the Restoration of the Monarchy...

Joseph Priestley and the Birmingham Riots

On the night of July 14th, 1791, Dr. Joseph Priestley must have feared for his life.  An unruly mob of hundreds had, only moments ago, set a torch to the New Unitarian Meeting House, the church where...

Are high-heeled shoes torture devices?

Who came up with high-heeled shoes? Was it a man or a woman? Was it an eastern or a western thing? Who designed these torture devices for our feet? How many women notice the difference when wearing high-heels...

Please Don't Blame President Obama

Because I'm trying harder than ever to maintain a positive outlook on life (the negative one got me exactly nowhere) I'd nearly decided to bypass the AIG topic. However, it is a topic that continues to needle...