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  The latest section of Scorpions in a Bottle continues the story of the founding of the state of Jefferson, carrying on from the Sett...

Work on Scorpions in a Bottle continues, in spite of delays occasioned by another bout of vertigo . Today's section carries on the ...

It's time to do a little backtracking with Scorpions in a Bottle . I began my account of the Hudson Campaign in media res , as it wer...

Those of you who are also on the Soros payroll will doubtless have already received the following instructions with your monthly stipend....

The latest section of Scorpions in a Bottle follows the former American rebels as they make the dangerous trek from Virginia to Spanish ...

Republican insiders are desperate to keep Donald Trump from becoming their presidential nominee. At the moment, their efforts are focused...

This month's featured article at the Sobel Wiki is on the Conservative Party , one of the two original major parties in the Confeder...

Aficionados of quantum mechanics will be familiar with the paradox of Schrödinger's cat, which was posed by the Austrian physicist Er...

Those of you who are not long-time readers of the Johnny Pez blog may be wondering: "What is this Scorpions in a Bottle of which yo...

The last excerpt from Scorpions in a Bottle marks the end of the chapter on the British victory over the Americans. We continue on from...

In For Want of a Nail, Sobel shows the American Revolution ending in June 1778 with the Continental Congress agreeing to return the Thir...

The Johnny Pez blog now presents the Beatles performing "She Loves You" live at the ABC Theatre in Ardwick, Manchester on November...

For the last year, the Iowa caucuses have dominated the political discourse in the United States. Presidential candidates from both major...

As we pick up the story of The Invisible Man in chapter VI, "The Furniture That Went Mad", it's still the morning of Whit ...

We take up the story of The Invisible Man with chapter V, "The Burglary at the Vicarage". A vicarage, btw, is the residence of...

Back in 2008, when Senator Barack Obama was running for president, a group of Hillary Clinton dead-enders called PUMAs started running w...

General Philip Benner (1762 - 1832) was a businessman in the iron trade from Pennsylvania. Benner Township, in Centre County, is named af...

Today's embedded music video features David Bowie performing the title track from the 1986 film Absolute Beginners .

In For Want of a Nail, Sobel takes a page from our own history, and has Lord North send a peace commission to the Continental Congress i...