By Steve Price Eighty years ago, the brave men of the Allied Expeditionary Force landed on the beaches of northern France in what was to be the greatest amphibious landing in military history. It was called Operation Overlord, and it would prove key to loosing the bonds of Europe from the grip of the Nazis
By Steve Price There exists in the world a growing dichotomy between the various cultural, political, religious and social camps; a divide that percolates with the energy of a fiery sun threatening to go nova on those poor sods caught in the middle. Whether betwixt members of different political classes, social conventions or other
By Well-Sewn Staff They say that if you do that which you love, you will never work a day in your life. Too many of us are hemmed into jobs that make ends meet and little else. Surely, they may offer a general sense of fulfillment in the most basic sense, but often times what
There was a time in the history of the world when two global superpowers stood face-to-face in the most important game of chicken humanity has ever known. The period of the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union was one of the most tense in human history, and bled over
By Steve Price & Bryan Ergle Like the artificers of old, he crafts concoctions that bequeath eloquence and beauty upon the user. With a skilled nose and hand of a master craftsman, he expertly blends different ingredients with his own form of unique alchemy, whose potions are worn and whose effects are rapturous upon the
By Bryan Ergle Shaving… a task that young men often look forward to as a rite of passage, and then men and women both, for the most part, basically endure for the rest of their lives, the unavoidable consequence of having not been shipwrecked on a deserted island. But the way we shave today, the
The Space Race is one of mankind’s seminal achievements; to launch humans into the vacuum of space, to slip the surly bonds of Earth as Ronald Reagan once so eloquently eulogized for the victims of the Challenger disaster… space travel is a dangerous gambit. Some of the earliest manned space launches conducted by the National
By Steve Price Once upon a time, the newly crowned King of France, Louis XVI and his wife Marie rode through the streets of Paris, basking in the promise of the new monarch’s reign-to-be. Among the head of a company of well-wishers to greet the new king and queen was a young lawyer of some
By Steve Price Welcome back to another installment of the history series that seeks to bring important life lessons out from between the lines in the pages of the history books, the Cultivar of Knowledge. For our second cultivar, we are looking to a well-known figure of history that led a rebellion against ancient Rome,
Welcome to the Cultivar of Knowledge, a brand-new article series debuting here at Well-Sewn this month. For years, members of the staff have enjoyed deep and meaningful conversations on a variety of topics ranging from stories from the ancient civilizations right up to the modern period. As passionate scholars for the field, it is our
