delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
charles rules america -- 11/24/20
money and taxes -- 11/23/20
the greatness of “white christmas” -- 11/20/20
the receding back room
the emergence of cotton -- 11/17/20
slavery and southern unity -- 11/16/20
stanley kubrick at home -- 11/13/20
the fragmentation and concentration of the world -- 11/12/20
do not put foreign objects in your mouth -- 11/11/20
frankfurt’s judengasse -- 11/10/20
the quest for homeownership -- 11/9/20
2001: a space odyssey -- 11/06/20
having nothing to lose -- 11/5/20
the sneeze -- 11/04/20
cicero -- 11/3/20
love and the louisiana purchase -- 11/2/20
casting the shining -- 10/30/20
men build up placid surfaces that women puncture -- 10/29/20
superpredators and megafauna in north america -- 10/28/20
a revolution in the art of war -- 10/27/20
modern monetary theory -- 10/26/20
buffalo bill’s wild west show -- 10/23/20
oil boom and oil bust -- 10/22/20
colliding galaxies -- 10/21/20
queen kristina and rene descartes -- 10/20/20
mining camps and frontier towns -- 10/19/20
trouble at yellowstone park -- 10/16/20
the two cuban revolutions that happened before fidel castro -- 10/15/20
how many stars are there? -- 10/14/20
industrial espionage -- 10/13/20
paul klee and his father -- 10/9/20
the greatest negotiator in history -- 10/8/20
penicillin and cantaloupe -- 10/7/20
lunch at work -- 10/06/20
the SBA and the modern venture capital era -- 10/5/20
“the day of the month on which they were laid” -- 10/2/20
stealing valuable art -- 10/1/20
einstein's report on relativity -- 9/30/20
the distraction brought by martin luther -- 9/29/20
a school-teacher turned vigilante leader -- 9/28/20
the artist hilma af klint -- 9/25/20
there were no ethnic romans -- 9/24/20
the revolution of edwin hubble -- 9/23/20
the 'great power era' of sweden -- 9/22/20
the epochal collapse of the bank of united states -- 9/21/20