It was said of President Truman that he mispronounced many words because he learned them by reading, not in conversation. The problem you cite is of people who learned aurally, not by reading. Itâs a symptom of modern media.
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It was said of President Truman that he mispronounced many words because he learned them by reading, not in conversation. The problem you cite is of people who learned aurally, not by reading. Itâs a symptom of modern media.
Lovely garden. Do I see a fuscia in the corner?
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A letter from General Grant to General Buckner:
Perhaps its time to add an argument based on the Second Amendment to Californiaâs case against federal use of the National Guard (Newsom v. Trump).
May you have many sunny days in Ireland.
âThe success of any resistance to Trump will depend ⊠on our collective ability to focus on the evils of this regime rather than on its many, many absurdities.â
âNeither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United StatesâŠâ â13th Amendment
Is Connecticutâs experience with privatized hospitals a foretaste of what West Virginia looks forward to? governor.wv.gov/article/gove...
Back when I taught medieval history, I often saw the divine / devine confusion in student essays.
I first learned of the value of scientific consensus reading Thomas Kuhnâs Structure of Scientific Revolutions. If thatâs too long, read his provocatively titled essay, âThe Function of Dogma in Scientific Research.â
The Hopi Tribe in Arizona has to tell 650 households that the electricity they were getting through the $7 billion Solar for All program was canceled. "It feels like we stepped back 100 years," Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma said of the government's broken promise. tinyurl.com/ym959wcu
Hope your class went well and that you enjoyed Pennsic.
âThe President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of,âŠbribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.â
There are further links on the pages to HiRes TIFFs.
Hereâs an official USN link to the photos. www.history.navy.mil/our-collecti...
Safe travels to all!
Thanks for that; it enticed me to find the source: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
Nice overview, but you skip the European Middle Ages. I donât remember the details but people to consider are Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Witelo, Theodoric of Freiburg, and many scholastic commentators.
The Vietnam War comparison really brings this home.
The key to this paper is its author and the author of ref 3. media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
Iâd cut the younger generation who wrote that headline some slack. Theyâve never seen a battleship and generally equate the term with âwarship.â
After sleeping on it, I bet you can find calling instructions in the introductory pages of local phone books (before dial phones became universal). I vaguely remember seeing a short film on how to make a call in the late 40s : early 50s.
I donât have a source in mind but an area in the early 20th c where spoken numbers were standardized was operator-connected phone calls. I imagine the Post Office and AT&T have training materials.
âThe president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. âTrump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union.ââ
âAs an experienced papal diplomat told me a few weeks ago: âWhat is happening in the U.S. today reminds me of Cuba.â Making America âgreat againâ is not a response to external threats but rather a campaign against internal âenemies.ââ
kind of Ordo amoris according to Vatican II (from Orm Rushâs 2019 book)
Congratulations!
First saw this in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
You wroteâOn November 23, 2023, the three observatories detected a signal, designated GW231123.â The LIGO / VIRGO / KAGRA discovery paper says âOn 2023 November 23 the two LIGO observatories both detected GW231123.â
Great idea. This medievalist still has an Isaac Newton ÂŁ1 note among my foreign currencies. Iâd gladly add a Bede to my small collection.
âThe influential writer William F. Buckley Jr. once defined a conservative as someone standing athwart history and yelling, âStop!â Mr. Trump seems to be standing athwart history yelling, âGo back!ââ
I found this abbreviation XLa in my old Cappelli (1967).
Two lesser academic sins: A text without itâs source. A footnote number without a footnote.
Actually we have a name for it: âfinger food.â It includes sandwiches, french fries, spare ribs, fried chickenâŠ.
Brilliant, revolutionary, conclusion: âLâĂtat, câest nous.â
Your allusions to unnamed âjournalistsâ engaging in unspecified attacks on Pope Francis may be plausible, but they arenât convincing without specifics.
Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
Hope you turn up something. Love to see the result.
Iâm of an age where I can point to Vietnam â the Tonkin Gulf incident, the MyLai massacre, the Pentagon Papers, etc. â as eroding public trust.
Nice touch with the St Johnâs Eve (23 June) Bonfire.
There seems to be a paradox here: What will be the source of the âmissing informationâ added to âthe entire corpus of human knowledgeâ?
@padilla.senate.gov Thought youâd be interested in this.
Might it be time to reconsider the post 9/11 decision to consolidate a range of law enforcement functions within a single Department of Homeland Security? It seems to have provided an institutional structure for oppression.
Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
âred jumperâ not US âred sweaterâ Open your bootâ not US âopen your trunkâ Failure.
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
The round sum is from a commercial publisher and looks like an advance. The $259.95 from Princeton Univ Pr. is more typical of academic publishing.
Addressing Summer School at Vatican Observatory, Pope Leo marvels at Webb Telescope; says âauthors of Scripture did not have the benefit of this privilege. Yet their poetic and religious imagination pondered what the moment of creation must have been like.â www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
I can think of two flags that have special meanings during this time:
I must be misreading. You canât be suggesting that Julius Caesar (d. 44 BCE) was connected to the âBattle of Hastings (1066).â
Sad to hear that youâre leaving but can see reasons why. My best wishes to you and your family. Irelandâs gain is Americaâs loss.
Some of your examples seem like medieval Latin, rather than French: philosophia fortuna
Trump is: âcausing the problem,â a âprofessional agitator,â an âinsurrectionist,â a âbad [person],â he âshould be in jail.â
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*foundersâ*
Can you recommend a reliable history of the founderâs conflicting ideas of a republic vs a democracy?
Had to look this up to refresh my memory: Datum Last known position of a target submarine or suspected submarine after contact has been lost.
Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.
Another normal Truth from a normal president
Who? â What? When? Where? âïžWhy?
Iâve been thinking a lot about RFK Jrâs proposal to ban government scientists from publishing in major medical journals. Itâs not just anti-science, itâs a direct attack on what I call the VDA ideals of democracy: Verification, Deliberation, and Accountabilit
Someone really must put together an annotated edition of Trump's holiday posts.
The Soldiers' and Sailors' monument, New York. The pillar at the right reads FARRAGUT at the top, the pillar on the left SHERMAN. Both are engraved with names of the many, many battles it took to end slavery
Moved deeply as I heard you artfully weave back and forth about a complex subject, but âbumble about clumsilyâ â never.
The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science â extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.
The classification of columnar orders is fairly well known. I'm trying to fix the origins of the "decorative facade" and "attic story" senses of "attic." Were they first found in English, Greek, or another language?
Nice story but in modern Greek the attic is ÏÎżÏÎŻÏα or Ï ÏΔÏÏÎż. How / when did âatticâ make its way from the buildings of Attica to the English word?
Linked article doesnât seem relevant.
In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption & shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done. The elevation of an American man of goodness, grace, humility, mercy & faith to the Throne of St. Peter is moving & momentous for us all.
Thanks. There's some further historic background -- going back to Jefferson's administration and English Common Law at: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_s...
Historianâs questions: When was the State Secrets privilege first employed? What effect does the Classified Information Procedures Act (1980) have on this privilege?
As the saying goes, âIf you are not paying for it, youâre not the customer; youâre the product being sold.â quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/p...
Youâre obviously not talking about Physics articles.
I wonder how Pope Leoâs bachelorâs degree in math will influence his take on AI.
An English translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's essay "After Ten Years: An Account at the Turn of the Year 1942-1943" is available on the web at archive.org/details/afte...
Oh so they elected a âsend a message with your reposts popeâŠ
Provocative suggestion by Anne Barrett Doyle of BishopAccountability: "Cardinal Sean O'Malley for pope, anyone?"
Nice to see scholastic structures tried for contemporary questions.
Read Ursula LeGuinâs Always Coming Home, a book about people who âmight be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California.â
What heâs always done in business â pass his own responsibility on to his lawyers.
Thanks for the link: âin two monthâs time, bullshitâs American avatar will swear an oath to faithfully execute the office of President and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United StatesâŠ. The bullshitter either stops being a bullshitter or he cannot honor these clauses.â
Veterans / Armistice Day was always about those who gave us our victory â not about the abstract idea of winning. Good to see Trump backing down here.
âThe Christianity most visibly aligned with Trumpism is one that emphasizes strength, victory and cultural dominance. It ⊠replaces the messy, demanding ethics of the Sermon on the Mount with a simpler narrative of winning and losing.â
My Irish grandmother would translate that as âDeo volente.â
I wonder how the judicial originalists will treat this DOJ interpretation.
The study nicely links Picuris Pueblo to the ancestral puebloan people of Chaco Canyon. However, the researchers only considered alternate Native American connections from distant tribes. There is no genetic analysis of other nearby puebloan peoples who also claim ties to Chaco.
âWe foundâŠâ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
It seems significant that he thinks rising prices for toys are unimportant â especially if theyâre girlsâ toys.
Just wondering what authority the US Atty for DC has over a publisher doing business in Massachusetts.
Reminds me of the multi-page lists of authors on scientific papers.
The ever-excellent John Harris on navigation in the smartphone age (drawing on @jerrybrotton.bsky.social's wonderful cultural history of the compass) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
âIt can take many generations to build a great edifice admired around the world â and just days to destroy it. And President Trump is a wrecking ball.â
It is time to nominate individuals for the ISAAC prizes. The deadline has been extended to May 15, 2025. You have to be an ISAAC member to apply, no problem we just voted in a bunch of new members. International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture: www.archaeoastronomy.org/prizes
Does the report provide a rationale for the geolocation or merely a set of coordinates? A valid rationale would be a real breakthrough.
Clément Canonne 
