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A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Shanghai 1987 & today
In Part 1 of “My Saga,” which was published March 1, the Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard journeyed from his home in Sweden to Canada, with the intention of tracing the Viking trail from L’Anse aux Meadows, the first European settlement in North America, into the United States and westward to Alexandria, Minn., site of a possibly fraudulent Viking runestone. After several setbacks, and with just days to spare before he had to catch his return flight to Sweden, Knausgaard met the photographer Peter van Agtmael in Cleveland, and the two of them drove to Detroit.
We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality. It was not the British government that seized India at the end of the 18th century, but a dangerously unregulated private company headquartered in one small office, five windows wide, in London, and managed in India by an unstable sociopath – Clive.
if you smell french toast does that mean you are having a french stroke?
A 1948 flood washed away the WWII housing project Vanport—but its history still informs Portland's diversity.
Looking pretty cold in NYC
frackin' texas
Lincoln highway
Apparently this was at the top of the charts when I was conceived ...
For a certain math student ...
videos of late-80's NYC by Nelson Sullivan. You might see old friends and familiar faces in some of them.
guess i should go food shopping. although i did just buy that can of beans. nah.... im good.
Ronnie DeMonarco hosts this 1995 video introduction to the LES. I met Ronnie in 1996, pre-moustache I think.
Dead whale in the NW news
was listening to a podcast talking about the selma movie which reminded me of a favored professor who was also my college advisor. it was widely known that he was shot while registering voters for sncc in the early 60s but i never knew the particulars. so i googled him just now to see if i could find out more only to learn that he died late last year.
NYC at night from 7500 feet above.