Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"The club is temporarily closed due to a legal order": The Bird's Eye Jazz Club in Basel

"Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter": The extent of the sixteenth-century Spanish Empire and Friedrich Schiller's "Don Karlos"

The "pureblood" marketing opportunity

What Facebook is good for

The "Mondenkind" that "they left behind": Michael Collins in music by Michael Wollny and Pink Pedrazzi

"Inclined to reserve all judgments": Nick Carraway as novelist in "The Great Gatsby"