delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
the mighty amazon river -- 10/26/21
henry adams and jamestown’s john smith -- 10/25/21
the ultra-exclusive groton school for boys -- 10/22/21
slaves' value exceeded the value of railroads and factories -- 10/21/21
amnesia in children -- 10/20/21
the english turn to india -- 10/19/21
maafa -- 10/18/22
the artist julian schnabel -- 10/15/21
a building that sets things on fire -- 10/13/21
alexander pushkin -- 10/12/21
the awe-inspiring presence of tigers -- 10/07/21
the beavers of canada – 10/6/21
china, assertiveness, and the south china sea -- 10/5/21
privateers help fund the american revolution -- 10/4/21
harriet beecher stowe and uncle tom's cabin -- 10/1/21
the tyranny of perfection -- 9/30/21
dams and the missouri river -- 9/29/21
pizarro and the incas -- 9/28/21
northern opponents of reconstruction -- 9/27/21
goddess of love incarnate -- 9/24/21
presidential edict -- 9/23/21
the role of the hippocampus -- 9/22/21
the largest company in history? -- 9/21/21
harvard in 1854 -- 9/20/21
"we the people" -- 9/17/21
transformative fire -- 9/16/21
counterfactuals -- 9/15/21
the ruins of angkor -- 9/14/21
the controversial creation of the federal reserve -- 9/13/21
stress and “the good wife” -- 9/10/21
off-broadway and off-off-broadway -- 9/9/21
russians in America – 9/8/21
the struggle for the south china sea -- 9/7/21
teaching a labrador to swim -- 9/3/21
sierra leone -- 9/2/21
variability in medical diagnoses -- 9/1/21
the less successful pizarro -- 8/31/21
america’s earliest factories and roads -- 8/30/21
elton john and john lennon -- 8/27/21
the government did not want houses in urban areas -- 8/26/21
trees need fungi -- 8/25/21
the successor to russia’s kgb -- 8/24/21
the beginnings of brokerage firms -- 8/23/21
the ladies’ magazine -- 8/20/21
be simple and slow in speech -- 8/19/21