delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

henry ford doubles his workers' wages -- 1/29/16

the wonders of vaudeville -- 1/28/16

the cold reality of child labor -- 1/27/16

john d. rockefeller's father -- 1/26/16

printing money, really printing money -- 01/25/16

a volcano devastates north america -- 1/22/16

200 deaths at the mexico olympics -- 1/21/16

we have forgotten what a city was -- 1/20/16

punctuation in classical greek and latin -- 1/19/16

jerry seinfeld and larry david -- 1/18/16

global warming circa 56 million years ago -- 1/15/16

the importance of forgetting -- 01/14/16

the twelve tables of ancient rome -- 1/13/16

fear of french and irish immigrants -- 1/12/16

racism in comedy -- 1/11/16

what begins in fear usually ends up in folly -- 1/08/16

war and despair -- 1/7/15

the empire of cotton -- 1/06/16

alexander hamilton complains -- 1/05/16

doubts about democracy -- 1/04/16