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Dodger Stadium, August 13, 2011 Credit: Adam_sk Foolish me; I had been planning for some time to welcome the Springtime return of major league baseball with a bit about the ways the language of baseball in the form of baseball idioms has crept into ordinary American English. I’m far too late to the pitch. There’s…
These 12th century walrus-ivory isle of Lewis chess pieces are currently on exhibit through April 22, 2012 at the Metropolitan’s Cloisters museum in The Game Of Kings. There’s a fairly lengthy but interesting video from the Metropolitan Museum about the Game of Kings exhibit. The Lewis chess pieces were found by a farmer on the…