Cultural Intermission: Nicholas Roerich

Sixty-Two years ago the world lost Nicholas Roerich(October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947) one of most eclectic cultural thinkers of all time. Born in Russia as Николай Константинович Рерих ( Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh), he was a painter, poet, writer….Read the full article at our sister site: http://cultureprojectearth.org/?p=1133

Anatomy of the Mystery Novel

The detective story, the who-dun-it?, the mystery has been a popular genre since the mid 1800s. People were fascinated as they read about C. Auguste Dupin who solved The Murders in the Rue Morgue written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1841. In 1868 Wilkie Collins published The Moonstone, whose detective was based on a member of Scotland Yard. The love of a good mystery has never died and those first stories are just as fascinating today as they were over a century ago.

TSO Culture Trivia: 20th Century America III

Great Americans everyone should know about.

TSO Culture Trivia: William Shakespeare’s Plays

William Shakespeare is England’s greatest poet and playwright and undoubtedly the worlds most famous. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. How well do you know your Shakespeare?