delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
america puts aside civil liberties -- 7/13/20
the circus in america -- 7/10/20
edward hopper's paintings -- 7/09/20
spooky action: we can no longer take locality for granted -- 7/08/20
britain's east india company and the jagat seth -- 7/7/20
roosevelt, glasses, and boxing -- 7/6/20
a comet contains components of DNA and RNA -- 7/02/20
the song of birds -- 7/1/20
the spanish flu foils the germans -- 6/30/20
nixon, patton, and vietnam -- 6/29/20
the troubled background of hollywood's biggest star -- 6/26/20
astoundingly, the united states had no federal budget -- 6/25/16
one-hundred-ton fungi -- 6/24/20
charlemagne could not read or write -- 6/23/20
society hill and rebuilding philadelphia -- 6/22/20
early social documentary photography -- 6/19/20
inkpot terms -- 6/18/20
religion and the afterlife -- 6/17/20
venerating the cat -- 6/16/20
the gunfights of wild bill hickok -- 6/15/20
"shoot not the iguana" -- 6/12/20
clash of civilizations -- 6/11/20
well-being theory -- 6/10/20
paris's incomparable pont neuf -- 6/09/20
the worst-governed city in america -- 6/08/20
francis ford coppola and samuel goldwyn -- 6/5/20
chew your food -- 6/4/20
the first proto-city -- 6/3/20
robert clive, india, and untold riches -- 6/2/20
war service, theodore sr., and theodore jr. -- 6/01/20
hollywood megastar james cagney and the system -- 5/29/20
"democracy" as a civil religion -- 5/28/20
a day in a factory circa 1905 -- 5/27/20
chiang kai-shek and mao zedong -- 5/26/20
wild bill makes his new york acting debut -- 5/22/20
transmission of electric waves -- 5/21/20
samuel clemens, failed investor -- 5/20/20
conflict between arabs and turks -- 5/19/20
american production -- 5/18/20
art is fierce -- 5/15/20
stephen girard and the yellow fever -- 5/14/20
understanding viruses -- 5/13/20
the beautiful cotswolds of england -- 5/12/20
the founding fathers were saddled with debt -- 5/11/20
the search for scarlett -- 5/8/20