delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
exoplanet J1407b -- 1/20/21
hernando cortes lands "with one bare foot" -- 1/19/21
martin luther king visits india -- 1/18/21
weather report and jaco pastorius -- 1/15/21
how to be a better problem solver and more creative -- 1/14/21
the greatest discovery of all time -- 1/13/21
war sex -- 1/12/21
land booms and busts -- 1/11/21
pompeii's restaurants, bars, and hotels -- 1/8/21
emotional expressions are part of biology -- 1/6/21
guinness beer goes public! -- 1/5/21
attacking george washington -- 1/4/21
the first woman ranger-naturalist at the grand canyon -- 12/31/20
nettie stevens and chromosomes -- 12/30/20
registering women to vote -- 12/29/20
toni morrison -- 12/28/20
dickens and christmas -- 12/24/20
tyrannosaurus rex had feathers -- 12/23/20
the death of mussolini -- 12/22/20
the legendary rendezvous of the mountain men -- 12/21/21
wagner's death -- 12/18/20
locust plagues -- 12/17/20
our future -- 12/16/20
business in the earliest days -- 12/15/20
the horrifying matter-of-factness of slavery -- 12/14/20
the real lois lane -- 12/11/20
casino royale -- 12/10/20
newton versus huygens -- 12/9/20
europe’s banker nathan rothschild -- 12/8/20
farmers versus merchants and bankers -- 12/7/20
richard wagner and war -- 12/4/20
american brevity -- 12/3/20
a true alpha male -- 12/2/20
europe invests in latin america -- 12/1/20
the life of a mountain man -- 11/30/20
native american tribes in northeastern america -- 11/27/20
empty -- 11/25/20
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