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Daily Excerpt Subject
no large cities in maryland -- 3/20/23
adopting new technology -- 3/16/23
The SVB Failure: Why It Happened and What It Means -- 3/15/23
science and the middle ages -- 3/15/23
ancient land ownership -- 3/14/23
the end of the french and indian war -- 3/13/23
street music in naples -- 3/10/23
"strippers, JFK and Stalin" or "strippers, JFK, and Stalin"
becoming josephine baker -- 3/9/23
quicksand -- 3/8/23
the hermit kingdom -- 3/7/23
privateersmen and profit -- 3/6/23
classical greece -- 3/3/23
zora neale hurston, zombies, and haiti -- 3/2/23
discovery of stem cells -- 3/1/23
birds and light pollution -- 2/28/23
early american wheat -- 2/27/23
seinfeld and rock -- 2/24/23
rutherford b. hayes -- 2/23/23
echolocation -- 2/22/23
marx and utopia -- 2/21/23
the u.s. was not designed as a true democracy -- 2/16/23
Who lives the longest? -- 2/15/23
the ottoman empire -- 2/14/23
the repudiation of 1894 -- 2/13/23
children and drawing -- 2/10/23
the gravest health crises of our time -- 2/9/23
living longer -- 2/8/23
the walls of medieval cities -- 2/7/23
privateers and the revolution -- 2/6/23
very early hollywood -- 2/3/23
art in prison -- 2/2/23
wages for labor -- 2/1/23
keynes and india -- 1/31/23
the most catastrophic battle of the civil war -- 1/30/23
the artist marcel duchamp -- 1/27/23
hammurabi and the forgiveness of debt -- 1/26/23
is ammonia our most important material? -- 1/25/22
the threat of germany -- 1/24/23
grover cleveland the forgotten president -- 1/23/23
reading without seeing -- 1/20/22
the strangeness of fame - 1/19/23
the bee brain -- 1/18/23
barons and dukes and earls -- 1/17/23
annie’s song -- 1/13/23