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Thursday, April 25, 2024
Links 26 April 2024
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Rock Art Depicting a Battle Scene at Segar, Algeria, c. 3500-5000 BC The FTC bans most non-compete clauses , which keep many workers from ju...
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The Wisteria House
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My neighborhood was developed in stages. The first phase took place in the early 1900s, when part of it was divided into 2- to 5-acre lots; ...
Belief vs. "Belief"
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Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? In the New Yorker , Manvir Singh asks a much better question: how do people believe in conspi...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Cormorants and Mayapples
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Spent Friday back on the Potomac, a day made interesting by two signs of progressing Spring. Down on the river, something was clearly happen...
Helen Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III, "Before and after Jamestown: Virginia's Powhatans and Their Predecessors"
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Helen Rountree (born 1944) has long been the leading historian of Virginia's Indians. She turned a girlhood obsession with Pocahontas in...
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Friday, April 19, 2024
A Trip to New York
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Thursday I rode the train up to New York City for a meeting about a big project in which I have a small role. My journey started at the BWI ...
Links 19 April 2024
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Thomas Maybank, The Court of Faerie, 1906 Detailed look at how three works of art came to be made , from Adam Moss's new book, The Wor...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Population Peaks
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Via Birth Gauge on Twitter/X, a map showing when each US county peaked in population. Dark blue means the population is still rising. Lots ...
The Prepper Dream
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Stephen Marche in the NY Times: When I attended prepper conventions as research for my book, I found their visions of a collapsed American R...
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Monday, April 15, 2024
The First Hot Day
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I was back on the Potomac today for what turned out to be our first hot day of the year, 88 degrees (31 C). It seemed like I could feel gree...
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