In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, Captain Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship The Pequod, lost his leg to a great white whale named...

FENCES, WALLS, BOUNDARIES BY DONNA BRUA Preface Fence—from Middle English fens, short for defense, which means defense. It is a form of...

From the earliest gathering of people in communities, people built walls as defense against enemies. These walls also produced a cohesion...