Well, in a season of meteorological extremes, perhaps it should not come as a great surprise to see several inches of hail accumulate in Yonkers on Tuesday night, creating scenes of winterlike wonder that residents were still dealing with on Wednesday.

Just as the logic of signaling attracts New Money to luxury, countersignaling directs the Old Money sensibility toward modesty.

Occasionally turnouts would be seen driven randem in circus parades.

We read of Maedhoc's mother, a webstress; of Ciaran's mother, with her flax drying on her walls, which caught fire and set the house in flames; […]