Fred Zackel

Portraits and Sketches Fred Zackel

Beautiful people. Villains. Weird People. Crazy People. Inspiring stories. Heartbreaking stories. Great ideas and disgusting behavior. Dirty deeds. Unhinged minds. Beautiful people up against the stupid and the stubborn. Horrible deaths. Lasting memories. Including: The Writing God. Akhenaten. The Queen of the Nile who was Pharaoh. Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war. The Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius. The Sicán Emperor Naylamp of Peru. Constantine the Fifth of Byzantium. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thomas Jefferson. The Divine Being behind Our Daily Bread. Michelangelo. Witches. Yahweh's wife Asherah. Charles Darwin, Ordinary Guy and Evolutionist. Athanasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, who created the New Testament. Michelangelo's Snowman. Dashiell Hammett. Michael Servetus, Heretic and Martyr. Mother Ocean. That Infamous Schmuck of the Old Testament. Libby Custer's Lasting Hustle. Helen Stirk and the Bishop Who Drowned Her. Blessed Virgin Mary. The Greed That Gave Us America. Two dozen short biographies (and some commentary.)