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Photo Gallery
Larry-the-web-guy tells me that we now have four photo albums up, comprising 12 galleries — altogether, 133 photos. Will probably do more after a while. I want to scan the photos I took in Peru in 1999 and get them put up too. (Some nice photos of Machu Picchu.) But for the moment, I think…
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Did US officials know that the Japanese attack was coming?
Report Debunks Theory That the U.S. Heard a Coded Warning About Pearl Harbor
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Redemption for the Polish Leader Who Crushed Solidarity?
Jaruzelski, on trial in vastly changed circumstances, being reconsidered
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Thomas Merton’s double birthday
December 10, 1941. Thomas Merton entered a monastery, putting an end to his previous life and beginning another that was to prove more fulfilling in many ways. December 10, 1968. Thomas Merton was accidentally electrocuted. See previous sentence. That makes today a double anniversary for one of the more interesting and creative men of the…
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Scientists develop software that can map dreams
A new technology is able to illustrate images taken directly from human brains during sleep
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An obvious answer
which probably won’t be tried….
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The flutter of their wings….
sometimes we’re the angel
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We’d find the money
what a government can afford to do depends upon a couple of things
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Richard Bach on Babe in the Woods
Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, etc., who became a friend of mine a few years ago, sent me a series of emails as he was reading Babe in the Woods, and he is very generously allowing me to quote them here. Some excerpts: “I’ve begun reading at last, and have to…
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Bush, the shoe, and John F. Kennedy
It’s more than a contrast of personalities.