November 2010
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““The Bee-Boy’s Song”
BEES! BEES! Hark to your bees!...”
– The Bee-Boy’s Song - Rudyard Kipling
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Pizza Industry Secrets: The Domino Effect →
Pizza Apocalypse
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Céline Sings for the Pope →
A discussion of sentimentality, Catholicism, mourning and Carl Wilson’s “Let’s Talk About Love.”
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How the Battle of Little Bighorn Was Won →
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Northerners, provincials that they are, regard the South as one large Mississippi. Southerners, with their eye for distinction, place Mississippi in a class by itself. —V.O. Key, Jr.
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Slaves of the moment →
Agustín Víctor Casasola, with the intermittent help of his brother Miguel, began to set up around 1900 one of the most important photographic archives of Mexican history.
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Veterans History Project →
A project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress
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Veteran's Day Tribute: Native American Codetalkers →
Many Unhappy Returns For Wandering Minds →
When thoughts roam, unpleasant feelings often follow.
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John T. Edge, Founder of the Southern Foodways... →
“If you take a group of good-hearted people, open to communal experience and put them in a room, good things happen. If you take a bunch of sonuvabitches and put them in a room, bad things happen.”
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Beyond Tequila in Mexico City →
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“Yes, Para las seis cuerdas, meaning, of course, the guitar. The guitar was a...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 39, Interview with Jorge Luis Borges, 1967
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A Short History of Corn in the USA →
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History of Anti-vaccination Movements →
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