February 2019 – the quick Sliver

Oscar

February 22, 2019 Mike Keeler

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Let us now praise the famous little man. His story begins in 1927, when MGM art director Cedric Gibbons was tasked with creating a statuette. Gibbons drew up a simple, stylized knight gripping a sword and standing on a reel of film. The sword represented protection of the welfare…

2.8.19 Federalism

February 8, 2019 Mike Keeler

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From out of the ashes rose the world’s most powerful republic. In 1748, a construction crew digging on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Italy uncovered what appeared to be the ruins of a Roman settlement. They began to excavate, and engineers and historians were called in. What they…

Uncategorized federalism Greece neoclassicism pompeii rome United States vitruvius

2.1.19 Third Phil

February 1, 2019 Mike Keeler

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I know, I know, I KNOW! You’re getting that funny feeling again. Like you’ve been here before. Like you woke up and read this stupid story back in 2007 and then again in 2013. It almost feels like the quick Sliver blog is stuck in some kind of loop. Weird!…

Uncategorized Groundhog Day Punxatawney Phil