Great collection -- and fantastically helpful staff! Many thanks for all your help!!

Yup. My opening pitch (courtesy of this image) to my Exploring History students this year will be that History is the least intimidating of disciplines. Everyone thinks they can do it because they constantly make reference to the past in their daily lives -- plus we tend to "hide" our theory.

Sigh. It’s the Chapters-ization of museums and art galleries. Though I must admit to a soft spot for the ginormous “stuffy” giraffes at the Royal Ontario Museum gift shop. None purchased… yet.

And with the totem pole still in contention why not check out (or reacquaint yourself with) John Lutz’s take on how it became a “Canadian”symbol?
thetyee.ca/Culture/2018...

I liked “Lobachevsky” — used to play a clip for my students to lighten up my plagiarism warning. Then there was his suggestion that political satire was dead/meaningless once Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Sigh…