The Last Season

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

"Set in Newport, Rhode Island, during the social season of the summer of 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. It is the end of an era of glitter and social privilege. Sera, a beauty from a Portuguese fi...

The Perfect Machine: Building The Palomar Telescope

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

almost A Half-century After Is Completion, The 200-inch Palomar Telescope Remains An Unparalleled Combination Of Vast Scale And Microscope Detail. As Huge As The Pantheon Of Rome And As Heavy As Th...

The Perfect Machine: Building The Palomar Telescope

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

almost A Half-century After Is Completion, The 200-inch Palomar Telescope Remains An Unparalleled Combination Of Vast Scale And Microscope Detail. As Huge As The Pantheon Of Rome And As Heavy As Th...

Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair Of 1840

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

In Damascus in February 1840, a Capuchin monk and his servant disappear without a trace. By the end of the day, rumors point at the local Jewish community, a tiny minority in the city. Within weeks...

The Perfect Machine

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

almost A Half-century After Is Completion, The 200-inch Palomar Telescope Remains An Unparalleled Combination Of Vast Scale And Microscope Detail. As Huge As The Pantheon Of Rome And As Heavy As Th...

Emissary Of The Doomed: Bargaining For Lives In The Holocaust

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungary's Jewish population When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in E...

Provenance

By Ronald Florence, Florence, Ronald

Marx's daughters

By Ronald Florence