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Gore Vidal still holds up - Salon.com 6 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
From Stan Persky's Salon.com article: That night, when I went to bed, I took with me Vidal’s 1981 historical novel, Creation, his very under-rated tale of the classical world told from the point of v...
Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection, Charles Darwin, and Theodosius Dobzhansky's famous statement 5 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
The Infinite Monkey Cage (BBC Radio 4), July 23rd, 2013's broadcast (available here) dealt with Alfred Russel Wallace. Brian Cox and Robin Ince discuss the life and works of Alfred Russel Wallace, th...
Status and Stress in the U.S.A. 29 Jul 2013 | 08:18 am
By some measures, you now have a better chance of living the American dream in Canada or Western Europe than in the United States. And while Americans generally gained longevity during the late 20th c...
Morgan's Raid, June 11–July 26, 1863... (Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's incursion north of the Ohio River) 26 Jul 2013 | 05:34 pm
In June and July of 1863, 150 years ago, the Confederate cavalry force known as Morgan's Raiders made an incursion north of the Ohio River into Union territory during the American Civil War. The civil...
Head and body of ice-age lion figurine reattached after being found 80 years apart 22 Jul 2013 | 08:17 am
In the summer of 1931, archaeologist Gustav Riek discovered the body of a ice-age mammoth-ivory figurine from a cave in Germany. Eighty years later the head belonging to that same figurine has been fo...
Scholar speaks on ‘God in the White House' - Bennington Banner 13 Jul 2013 | 07:42 pm
Rev. Randall Balmer, Mandel Family Professsor of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College and chairman of Dartmouth's religion department, recently spoke at Zion Episcopal Church in Manchester, VT. A scho...
July 4, 1863 - Roads North: Vicksburg falls on 'Glorious Fourth' - Evening Sun 4 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
From the Hanover Evening Sun's special website feature, "Gettysburg 150"--2013 is the sesquicentennial year of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. On July 4, 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi fell to...
July 3rd, 1863, 150 years ago, the high-water mark of the Confederacy 3 Jul 2013 | 07:46 pm
One-hundred-fifty years ago today, July 3rd, at 2 p.m., during the third and final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett’s Charge occurred and the high-water mark of the Confederacy was reached les...
George Packer: Can Silicon Valley Embrace Politics? : The New Yorker 13 Jun 2013 | 08:42 pm
From George Packer's article in The New Yorker, "Change The World", about Silicon Valley, its bubble, its arrogance, its sincerity, its influence..... A few years ago, when Barack Obama visited one Si...
Columbus Circle panorama - 15th of July, 1907 10 Jun 2013 | 07:33 pm
This is a great image of Columbus Circle in New York City taken on July 15, 1907. View it here at full resolution (5,181 × 1,640 pixels). Note the elevated rail up (north) on Broadway, the ads for rye...
