Category Archives: history

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Russian “liberators” of the Ukraine Heard Singing a Nancy Sinatra Tune”

Russian “liberators” of the Ukraine Heard Singing a Nancy Sinatra Tune “These boots are made for walking And that’s just what they’ll do One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you” Robert K. Stephen

RKS Sports: Up the Mekong into the Heart of Darkness: An Evening in the Heart of THE LEAF NATION

Given the conflagration occurring in the Middle East with missiles and drones flying here and there one might say there was militarism in the air or at least on the CNN/FOX/CBC airwaves. My goodness even the Grand Pouba fell as a martyr in the heat of the moment but was no doubt dancing with theContinue reading “RKS Sports: Up the Mekong into the Heart of Darkness: An Evening in the Heart of THE LEAF NATION”

RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast”: Circumcision and Snoring in Ancient Rome (Petronious)

“He’s never had any real training. I just had him taught by sending him along to peddlers on the street corner. There’s no one equal to him if he wants to imitate mule-drivers or hawkers. He’s terribly clever, really. He’s a cobbler, a cook, a confectioner-a man that can turn his head to anything. ButContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast”: Circumcision and Snoring in Ancient Rome (Petronious)”

RKS Literature: The Torment of Holding Yourself In: “Trimalchio’s Feast” (Petronious)

“Excuse me, dear people, my inside has not been answering the call for several days now. The doctors are puzzled. But some pomegranate rind in water and resin in vinegar has dome me good. But I hope now it will be back in good behaviour. Otherwise my stomach rumbles like a bull. So if anyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Torment of Holding Yourself In: “Trimalchio’s Feast” (Petronious)”

RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast”: Trimalchio’s Wife A Magpie with a Rough Tongue! (Petronious)

“Who was the woman running around this place? ‘Trimalchio’s wife’ he told me, ‘Fortunata is her name and she counts her money by the sackful. And before, before what was she? You’ll pardon me for saying so, but you wouldn’t have touched a bit of bread from her hand. Nowadays-and who knows how or why-Continue reading “RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast”: Trimalchio’s Wife A Magpie with a Rough Tongue! (Petronious)”

RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast” : What’s on the Menu (Petronious)

“After our applause the next course was brought in. Actually it was not as grand as we expected, but it was so novel that everyone stared. It was a deep circular tray with the twelve signs of the Zodiac arranged around the edge. Over each of them the chef had placed some appropriate dainty suggestedContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast” : What’s on the Menu (Petronious)”

RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn

“I couldn’t help laughing at your account of Haydn’s drunkenness, -if I’d been there, I’d certainly have whispered in his ear: ADLGASSER. But it’s a disgrace that such an able man should be rendered incapable of performing his duties and only have himself to blame for it-in a post that’s in God’s honour-when the archbishopContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn”

RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother

‘Did I ever tell you old boy,’ he said, chuckling round the stem of his pipe,’ about the time those two nippers of mine set fire to the old market woman’s skirt because they saw her wrapping up sausages in a poster of B.B.? Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Evil Children Burning a Woman Wrapping Up Sausages in a Poster of Big Brother”

RKS Literature: The Brutality of the Hun and Trench Warfare (Pat Barker)

“The other expression was the trench expression. It looks quite daunting if you don’t know what it is. Any one of my platoon could have posed for a propaganda poster of the Brutal Hun, but it wasn’t brutality or anything like that It was sort of a morose disgust and it came from living inContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Brutality of the Hun and Trench Warfare (Pat Barker)”

RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue”: Horror and Revenge Understandable: Will it Ever End?

October 7, 2023 saw brutal Hamas attacks in Southern Israel at the Nova Music Festival where 378 people were murdered and 7 communities including the Nahal Oz Kibbutz where 60 civilians and IDF soldiers were killed. Close to 1,200 Israeli’s died in these attacks. Israeli retribution attacks have resulted in some 69,000 deaths in Gaza,Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Documentary: “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue”: Horror and Revenge Understandable: Will it Ever End?”