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The Coffee House Club, St. Louis
The Coffee House Club, St. Louis Before about 2010 you couldn't always count on having internet access, much less high speed internet, in hotels. When traveling, I would always keep my eyes open for coffee houses with free wifi, particularly...
Burrus Mill & Elevator Co. v. Wills, 85 S.W.2d 851 (1935) | Caselaw Access Project
Burrus Mill & Elevator Co. v. Wills, 85 S.W.2d 851 (1935) | Caselaw Access Project Burrus Mill and Elevator Company, which produced the Light Crust Doughboys radio show to advertise the mill's Light Crust Flour, asked a court to enjoin...
Alex Trebek dead: Ruta Lee remembers 'High Rollers' co-host - Los Angeles Times
Alex Trebek dead: Ruta Lee remembers 'High Rollers' co-host - Los Angeles Times "For all his sly and ready humor, he may be the last television figure who possessed the kind of authority that was once called gravitas. "But Ruta...
Edward Bernays: Prophet of "Spin" - Law & Liberty
Edward Bernays: Prophet of "Spin" - Law & Liberty "As Bernays saw it, a healthy democratic society requires the regulation of the beliefs of the many by the work of an unseen few. Such people understand the principles of psychology...
Lessons in longevity from Nicholas Parsons - UnHerd
Lessons in longevity from Nicholas Parsons - UnHerd Nicholas Parsons, host of the BBC Radio 4 panel quiz "Just A Minute" since its debut in 1967, has died this week at the age of 96. Simon Evans ponders his longevity....
Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Beautiful color map of the 1904 World's Fair, showing the state, territorial, and national pavilions, Model City, Intramural Railway, connections to steam and electric railways. A massive Philippine Exhibit...
Carol Burnett: 'Cleverness' in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct | Intellectual Takeout
Carol Burnett: 'Cleverness' in Entertainment is Becoming Extinct | Intellectual Takeout "Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with...
Russell Baker: 'When Writing Is Fun, It's Not Very Good' - The Atlantic
Russell Baker: 'When Writing Is Fun, It's Not Very Good' - The Atlantic "What I find about reporting now is you don't know what you don't know, because there aren't reporters there anymore. There's nobody covering closely the things they...
There are very good reasons why the BBC can't just load iPlayer with archive content
There are very good reasons why the BBC can't just load iPlayer with archive content This would also likely explain why BBC America is loaded up with modern American content (e.g., Star Trek: The Next Generation) rather than classic comedies...
Abortion:Â The Mark of Dystopia - Catholic World Report
Abortion: The Mark of Dystopia - Catholic World Report "...two of the... most preeminent dystopia novels even include swipes at one of the most sacred cows of the 21st-century liberal project: abortion.... "Concerned with the homogenizing and stultifying effects of...
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