Forecasting the Fall of an Empire square A boy plays and birds

A boy plays and birds fly at the Jama Masjid

piece together Dubrovnik

artists and eccentrics

even if the working track threads through dark and melancholy tenements and warehouse areas

wear "Votes for Women" sashes and carry flags and banner

Forecasting the Fall of an Empire square A boy plays and birdsArtist Tucker Nichols pokes fun at erstwhile predictions of empires collapsing with this illustration published with The Times Opinion article, Like Rome Before the Fall? Not Yet, February 24, 2010. The article was written by Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. All too often, however, students of the past succumb to the temptation to foretell the future, wrote Brendon in The Times. The past is a map, not a compass. It