Tales of Crete is a series of stories based on my experience living in Crete in the summer of 1979. That summer AIDS was becoming known to the world. The advent of that disease marked the end of ...
Enjoy an existential romp through the neural pathways of humor with the Sartre of satire! Read a chapter from the book that is teaching man and womankind to laugh at their own folly. Pilfered from...
Titus Flavius Clemens (c.150 - 215), known as Clement of Alexandria (to distinguish him from Clement of Rome), was a Christian theologian and the head of the noted Catechetical School of Alexandria...
A series of free seminars discussing the increasing critical importance—and rapidly changing regulatory environment—of employer-based Hearing Conservation Programs have been announced for eight cit...
Athanasius was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 298 A.D., converted to Christ
as a young man and made Bishop of Alexandria at the age of thirty in 328
A.D. As John Piper notes, in his brief biography...
The April newsletter of the Old Town Civic Association which includes a detailed study of the spending of the City of Alexandria, Virginia from 1997-2008.
An ordinance proposed by Mayor William Euille of the City of Alexandria, Virginia that will prohibit the shooting of an arrow upon the property of another without permission from the owner or tenan...
Alexandria Sanitation Authority continues construction on Commonwealth Avenue Sewer System Improvements. Daingerfield Road to see one lane traffic for the next month. Avoid the area if possible.
Northern Virginia Century 21 Open Houses. April is Open House month, stop by any Century 21 Open House and register in the "Pathway to your Dreams" drawing to win $221,000.
The Traffic & Parking Board seemingly has screwed over the parking in our Carlyle neighborhood by permitting up to 10 motorcoaches to park in the 26 slots along Jamieson Ave just outside the Carlyl...
ALIVE!'s 28th annual walkathon will be held May 3, 2009, through Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, followed by a community picnic. All proceeds will benefit the ALIVE! Child Development Center, a full...
The Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria would like to invite everyone who lives, works, learns, or plays in Alexandria to a community meeting to share their ideas and experiences on how to make ...
Annotated presentation of Walter Granger's diary from the American Museum of Natural History's 1907 expedtion to the Fayum of Egypt.
CORRECTIONS to “Notes From Diary--Fayum Trip, 1907,” NMMNH&S ...