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Election? What Election? The Prince Is in Town!
A few days ago I reviewed The New York Times The Complete Front Pages 1851-2008 for articles from 150 years ago this week. It was a bit challenging finding Civil War related articles because much of the front pages were … Continue reading
“Useless” and the “Boy of Great Promise”
Sometimes I have a tendency to act like I can make my own omens. At any rate, I thought it would have a nice symmetry if the first book I officially read after I started this site was Lee and … Continue reading
Shelby Foote
Many years ago in college freshman remedial English class our instructor asked us which of the books we had read during class we most enjoyed. I think, with many of my classmates, I voted for Voltaire’s Candide. It was short … Continue reading
Wide-Awakes
Wandering through our local public library a few weeks ago I came across a big gray book with a very big title: The New York Times The Complete Front Pages 1851-2008. The pages of the book display selected front pages … Continue reading
Learning Curve
Good Morning, World! I’m definitely on a learning curve with this WordPress stuff. It’s exciting to start learning and taking the first few tiny steps. As you can see I’m experimenting with the header. The current header is based on … Continue reading
Welcome World!
When I was looking at tutorials for using WordPress, the default “Hello World!” page was very plain with just a blue background. It seemed so isolated, and of course, it is so isolated. A blog with no readers so far. … Continue reading
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