History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.
~ from the novel “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, 1874
There’s something comforting about history, despite its many tales of man’s inhumanity to man, our sheer impotence in the face of nature’s wrath, and the recurring lesson that when we think…