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TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 1
MARISSA KOZMA WRITES IN the dailypassport website about “6 U.S. Small Towns That Feel Like Stepping Back in Time”. Being well-travelled and of a certain age, I find that they all rekindle memories,...
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TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE VISITED THREE U.S. Small Towns residing in time-machines of sorts. Today in Part 2, dailypassport’s Marissa Kozma describes three more of these towns, one in my native Ohio, one in...
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ANGRY DAN’S ICONS OF LONDON
BRIT STREET ARTIST/LIMERIST EXTRAORDINAIRE ANGRY DAN is anything but angry. As recounted by Georgie Mortimer at *Secret London, February 22, 2019, “Someone’s Been Leaving Limericks Around London (And...
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THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 1
THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE “Grrls Get Even” flicks, but in fact it’s about the science of interplanting corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—with mutual benefits for all three vegetables and...
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THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 2
YESTERDAY’S PART 1 OFFERED the theory of interplanting corn, beans, and squash for mutual benefit of these vegetables, not to say their cultivators as well. Today we have Sylvia Klyz’s “Companion...
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WITH A SONG IN MY HEAD
MAYBE IT’S A BYPRODUCT of whacko Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm, but Melinda Wenner Moyer writes in The New York Times, September 10, 2024, “Why Can’t I Get This Song Out of My Head? Here’s why...
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A.I. CAN REDUCE CONSPIRACY BELIEFS
“EVEN THE DEEPEST OF RABBIT HOLES may have an exit” says a news release, September 12, 2024 from American University. Indeed, appearing the same day AAAS Science’s Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp...
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GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!
I REPEAT, GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN IS BEST!! Well, I concede that you may have a fav fried chicken place too, so let’s praise the concept as well as the locale. Origins. Wikipedia notes, “The...
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A LOT MORE THAN A ROOF OVER ONE’S HEAD
AN AVOWED ENTHUSIAST OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (see for example “FLW at the MOMA,” particularly its Part 2 “You Can Own an American Home”), I’m surprised I’ve never cited Ennis House. What’s more, I’ve...
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ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 1
IMAGINE YOU’RE AN (EVIDENTLY WELL-HEELED) auto enthusiast in 1932. You have enjoyed the likes of Amicar and Bugatti two-seaters, but now there’s the wife and little Artemis calling for suitable...
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ALVIS SPEED 20—A GENTLEMAN’S SPORTING MACHINE PART 2
YESTERDAY, R&T JANUARY 1959 INTRODUCED US to the 1932 Alvis Speed 20. Today in Part 2 we review this luxurious Brit four-seat tourer with tidbits gleaned from R&T’s Classic Road Test No. 24,...
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DON’T FORGET THE WATERCRESS SANDWICHES
IN COZY ENGLISH WHO-DONE-ITS, watercress sandwiches at teatime seem to coincide with reveal of the rascal. Now according to Korin Miller writing in Food & Wine, September 12, 2024, “The CDC...
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NANO-SHOCKING NEWS!
ANDREW PAUL WRITES IN POPULAR SCIENCE, September 18, 2024, “After 2600 Years, We Finally Know How Static Electricity Really Works.” Well isn’t it about time? No, it’s about nano particles. Size...
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JUS’ SWANNIN’ AROUND
I DON’T THINK OF MYSELF AS an ornithophile, but swans, Cygnus olor, seem to get pretty good coverage at SimanaitisSays. Tidbits here have related them to cars, opera props, Ogden Nash poetry, and a...
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FIAT-ABARTH TWIN CAM—SNARLING BRIO
R&T SUMMED UP THE FIAT-ABARTH BIALBERO perfectly: “expressly for the discriminating enthusiast.” The magazie continued in December 1959, “This extremely small Italian car, which has the rather...
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DUDLEY CLARKE—MASTER OF DECEPTION
NOTES WIKIPEDIA, “AT THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE WINSTON CHURCHILL made his famous remark that in wartime ‘truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” By contrast,...
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AN APARTMENT OF ONE’S OWN
VIRGINIA WOOLF WROTE OF A Room of One’s Own, and Vivian Marino writes of “An Art Installation She Called Home” in The New York Times, September 20, 2024. “She” in this case is Apryl Miller, “an artist...
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PORSCHE TYPE 360 CISITALIA GP CAR—ANALYZED BY POM AND OTHERS PART 1
WIKIPEDIA IS THE MOST CONCISE: “The Cisitalia Grand Prix is a single-seater car for the postwar 1.5-litre supercharged Grand Prix class, built by Italian sports car manufacturer Cisitalia and...
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PORSCHE TYPE 360 CISITALIA GP CAR—ANALYZED BY POM AND OTHERS PART 2
YESTERDAY, LAURENCE POMEROY MADE a tantalizing comment about the Porsche Type 360 Cisitalia GP car—an apparent necessity of its four-wheel drive. This, recall, in 1947. Today in Part 2 we continue...
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COPPÉLIA AT 50 PART 1
MY THREE FAVORITE BALLETS ARE THE CLASSIC Coppélia, and two 20th-century works, Appalachian Spring and Fall River Legend. These latter two have already made appearances here at SimanaitisSays: “My...
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