Featured Image: Valens Aqueduct, Istanbul In our last installment I mistakenly referred to the Strait of Bosporous as a “river.”  Kudos to Ernest Lewicki for correcting me — and…… Read more “Of Water and Walls and Weapons”

  On June 29, 1956 Dwight Eisenhower authorized a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” to ensure safe, speedy and reliable transcontinental travel — and…… Read more “Whither Byzantium”