Books, books, books!

Books everywhere and topics covered? Oh, so many!

Early American history: Founding Fathers,; Roman and Greek history: Cicero, Caesar, Tacitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Constantine; Dark Ages; 1066 in England,; Renaissance: Galileo, Copernicus,  simple machines;  French Revolution,; Peasants’ Revolt; Philosophy: Greeks, Romans, early Christians; Fall of Rome, WWI and WWII; Religion: Wars, Bloodshed, Marin Luther, etc.; Archery: long bow, recurve-reflex bow; Flying saucers in the 1950s;  Astronomy; Radio,; Will Rogers, Jesse James, Howard Hughes, Howard Hill, the master archer, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio,; Languages: French, German & Latin; Baseball: Yankees vs Red Sox; Existentialism: Christian and secular; Monastic life: Trappist to be? ; Science: physics, chemistry, calculus, differential equations, Schrodinger’s equation, Eigenvalue problem, New physics: quantum mechanics, non-linear space, Einstein, and more.

These are samplings of the written word that have jostled in my cranium over more that 70 years. Definitive answers to these challenging questions are left as an exercise for the reader.