Showing posts with label Island at the Center of the World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Island at the Center of the World. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2020

New Amsterdam Incorporated: 2 February 1653

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Smithsonian: New Amsterdam's First Laws: Less Drinking and Fighting Dutch traders founded and ran New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Gloria Vanderbilt, RIP

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Instapundit: Gloria Vanderbilt Dies, RIP Gloria Vanderbilt had an interesting and varied life , but became a widely known cultur...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

The Purchase of Manhattan: May 6, 1626

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Peter Minuit and the Purchase of the Island of Manhattan   Like the Pilgrim story, it is one steeped in myth and cloudy facts. But th...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

The Crubio Dream Lives On, But It Was Never Real

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Spengler's Prediction Aside ,  How Does This Help Now?   Jake Tapper presumably has a good source...   Wallowing in what mig...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Walk: Philippe Petit and the World Trade Center, August 7, 1974

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Not everything in Seventies New York City was bad…
Sunday, February 19, 2012

It is all Greek to me (and you too)...is this our future?

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A glorious civilization, now in ruins... The Way the Greeks Live Now, by Russell Shorto.   Life goes on in Greece, but not as good as i...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

David Brooks: Deals with a profound issue with a completely idiotic "solution"

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Growing caste divides in America are real .   So David Brooks does a decent enough job explaining Charles Murray's "Coming Apart...
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