MOZART BY A NOSE

                Mozart once bet fellow composer Haydn that he could not play a piano composition that Mozart had written that day.  Haydn accepted the bet and sat down at the piano with the music in front of him.  He started out well, but then reached a part of the composition Read more…

Sub at Sea

The painting is called “Sub at Sea” by Adolf Bock.  It is a u-boat in the Atlantic in WWII.  U-boats like this one sank 175 warships and 2,825 merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic.  The most successful u-boat commander was Otto Kretschmer who sank 47 ships in 15 Read more…