delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

the phenomenon of "inescapable shock" -- 7/31/19

the dutch were "masters of the world" -- 7/30/19

"the hungry forties," america's first great depression -- 7/29/19

the taxi replaces the horse -- 7/26/19

time does not flow -- 7/25/19

symmetry and asymmetry in humans -- 7/24/19

the disease and devastation of london -- 7/23/19

in 1941, japan bombed the american territory of the philippines-- 7/22/19

the first self-portrait -- 7/19/19

why north korea will never change -- 7/18/19

the powers of hippopotamus slime -- 7/17/19

nine-year-old henry vi is crowned king -- 7/16/19

bankrupting midwestern farmers -- 7/15/19

the portraits of moroni -- 7/12/19

the age of the pyramid -- 7/11/19

the bowerbird and art -- 7/10/19

japan's most devastating earthquake -- 7/09/19

lbj's war on poverty -- 7/08/19

a seductress in blue -- 7/5/19

alien civilizations and energy -- 7/3/19

for every man who died in battle, eighty-eight died of disease -- 7/2/19

a gentleman should not seek public office -- 7/1/19