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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Eleventh day of each September, we remember, we remember

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Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, I was in Orlando on business. At a smallish tech conference, one of those gatherings where a company (e.g., ...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Red Scare

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I don't know why anything should come as a surprise, but the R's trying to brand us D's as commies does somewhat take me aback. ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

Send in the Indianapolis Clowns.

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When it comes to baseball, I'm not a 100% purist, longing for the return of men in baggy wool unis sweltering through a double header. I...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Guy Fawkes Day

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It's Guy Fawkes Day, so across the pond there'll be bonfires and fireworks, and maybe some effigy burning. Guy Fawkes was a Catholic...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Talk about a niche profession

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This may come as something of a shock to my readers - it does to me - but I have never been to Walden Pond. Sure, I read Thoreau way back in...
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Thursday, October 16, 2025

What a remarkable woman

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  Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley. I'd never heard of her. But what a remarkable woman. What a remarkable life. After a brief illness,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Oh, by all means, let's rewrite/whitewash our history

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In grammar school, I learned a rather skewed version of American history. Forget the Founding Fathers, or most of them, anyway. Other than C...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

There's more to local murder history (female edition) than Lizzie Borden

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You couldn't grow up in Massachusetts without knowing about Fall River's own Lizzie Borden.  You know, Lizzie Borden, as in: Lizzie ...
Monday, March 24, 2025

FIre next time?

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I know all about water damage. Twenty years ago this past February, a pipe froze and burst on the top floor of my condo building, and since ...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Presidential Hobbies

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A month or so ago, something fluttering in front of me caught my eye and I thought, hey, wouldn't it be fun to do a post on presidential...
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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Reenactors? So not cool.

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I am not wild about reenactors. I find it espeically cringe when they slip into ye olde spake thee-thou-thoust . When they were little, my s...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Never too late to exonerate the Salem witches

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The Salem Witch Trials are certainly one of the more ignoble chapters in American history. Mass hysteria is never  a good thing. In Massachu...