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Spotted this Stevie album on vinyl in the Presidential Reading Room at the Chicago Public Library branch of the Obama Presidential Center.

The three volumes are:

1. Accounts of Medieval Constantinople (The Patria), translated by Albrecht Berger
2. Two Works on Trebizond (Michael Panaretos, Bessarion), edited and translated by Scott Kennedy
3. A New Herodotus: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West, written by Anthony Kaldellis

I received this volume as a child. It was published by Longmeadow Press in 1987.

These photos are from my visit to the Art Institute this past Sunday. Included here is Japanese art as well as Raqib Shaw’s Paradise Lost, which I loved.

Tunisia is one of the richest Roman countries in the Mediterranean, and most people have no idea.

Sites like Haidra (Ammaedara), with its lonely triumphal arch standing in the middle of nowhere, and Sbeitla (Sufetula), with its perfectly preserved forum and three beautiful temples side by side, feel completely frozen in time.

Quiet, dramatic, and almost empty of tourists, these places show just how powerful and widespread the Roman Empire really was.

Included here are photos from Eryri/Snowdonia National Park and Castell/Castle Harlech, northern Wales.

This has been on my bucket list ever since I was a child. Got a chance to see it this past summer. Built by the Pueblan civilization. I highly recommend a visit.

One of the my favorite museums in Chicago. I have been going here since I have been a child, for over 40 years.

Here is the link to the article from the National Geographic magazine.