What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]

Having performed the rites of Pilgrimage, on the twentieth day precisely of Dhu'l-Hijjah I went out of Mecca in company with the commander of al-Iraq.

Virgil: Right...yes, the name...uh, wait! I remember something! It is written in the scriptures. The Living One will live again on wings of fire. No wait, I think it says reborn on wings of fire. Oh, blood and ashes! Why do elves always have to be so damn cryptic? Uh...

I had heard early on in my career about 'ringers': cars that were stolen and cloned, but it was 1993 before I was to experience this first-hand.