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A great week in Palm Springs with friends and beautiful weather

Only served five months

Pardoned by Trump in May 2025.

Put it in an index fund

I stopped using Academia a while ago because I didn’t want to pay, yet they had the nerve to ask to verify if I was the author of various engineering articles by someone with the same name; in other words they wanted to charge me AND wanted me to help improve their data for free.

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN

Something that went past my desk this morning: Paolo Morosini’s De Aerterna temporalique (Padua, 1473) lccn.loc.gov/2014659086

@LibraryCongress #incunabula

Yellowface, Murder at the Watergate

So in the UK there is no such thing as testifying before Parliament? US congress can’t interview everyone in those emails, and Mandelson is more answerable to Brits than the US, where nobody has heard of him.

The Library of Congress will be OPEN!

He probably signed an NDA when he started

Lincoln Memorial in snowy conditions

Walking in a winter wonderland in Washington, DC today!

Oh thank goodness

I saw the version with the red car- it was completely unnecessary and distracting.

Happy Birthday, MLK

I’m sorry, this is a non-sequitur, but I hadn’t heard of the RIA before last week, but I had to hunt down an article in the RIA Transactions from 1788 by Richard Kirwan on coal mines- an article referenced by Thomas Jefferson. I managed to find a physical copy at the Library of Congress. Thank you!

She has been separated from her husband for over two years, so she has a lot of nerve telling women they need a man around

Check the KenCen website- there is hardly any programming for the next six months

That’s quite a story!

Why is the name Caligula in the manuscript citation?

A man is sitting at a desk, writing a book with a quill. He is not looking at the page. A godly book, illuminated, is also present in the copperplate print of 1716. The godly message of the flying book is in German and from the Bible: Im Anfang war das Wort Joh:1 v:1". A light beam from the holy book to the yet blank page can also be seen with the words inscribed: „Dein Wort ist ein Licht auf meinem Wege Ps. 119 v. 105“. So, basically, god is the textual inspiration of the author's work. It looks like he is waiting an artificial hallucination in 1716. The source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/17512/mirador

AI-assisted writing in 1716. #skystorians

VMFA returns trafficked 6th-century terracotta fragments to Turkey The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has returned 41 ancient polychrome terracotta reliefs to their original home in Düver, Türkiye, after learning that they had been illegally excavated and tra…

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts returns trafficked 6th-century terracotta reliefs to Turkey. 34 of these were purchased in 1978 from Bruce McNall (Summa Galleries) whose reputation was less than stellar. Another 6 were gifted by Harlen J. Berk. Later the same year.
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All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped

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The Asian Division’s Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: Now Accepting Applications for 2026 | 4 Corners of the World The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's app...

The Library of Congress' Asian Division is now accepting applications for their 2026 Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship: up to $3,000 to support travel, lodging, and research expenses. Due January 11, 2026. #sinology #libraries

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I use Yellow Cab in DC

That beard!

Very good, I’m glad I can help. There is a great deal of 17th- and 18th-century horse veterinary texts with diagrams fir bloodletting and sites of disease that I think have been overlooked and forgotten over the past 100 years.

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

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No Kings demonstration in Washington, DC, at the Capitol today …