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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...
St. Nicholas: The Riddle Box
St. Nicholas: The Riddle Box: August 1895 A page of word puzzles, including "Central Syncopations" (remove the middle letter of a word to make another word), "Double Acrostic" (the first letters and final letters of the answers to the set...
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...
One man zoned huge swaths of our region for sprawl, cars, and exclusion - Greater Greater Washington
One man zoned huge swaths of our region for sprawl, cars, and exclusion - Greater Greater Washington Historical sketch of a planner who shaped zoning and urban design in St. Louis, the Metro Washington area, and many other cities. "On...
Were Confederate Generals Traitors?, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate
Were Confederate Generals Traitors?, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate From the brilliant professor of economics at George Mason U. (who happens to be an African American): "America's first secessionist movement started in New England after the Louisiana Purchase in...
Historical Hurricane Tracks
Historical Hurricane Tracks This app from NOAA shows the tracks of all tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes in its record books and allows you to search for storms that have passed within a certain radius of a particular place. The...
Who Lost the Cities? | National Review Online
Who Lost the Cities? by Kevin D. Williamson in National Review Online "My reporting over the past few years has taken me to Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, St. Louis and the nearby community of East St. Louis, Ill., Philadelphia, Detroit,...
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine "For a few decades, it's been noted that a large percentage of all gifted students (those who score in the top 10 percent on aptitude tests) severely underestimate...
Urban Review STL: Euclidean Zoning To The Extreme
Urban Review STL: Euclidean Zoning To The Extreme Good discussion of the evolution of use-based zoning, from Euclid v. Ambler to the present, and why St. Louis needs a new land use code to go along with its new comprehensive...
Field of Schemes: StL stadium chief: Replace dome, or lose Rams
Field of Schemes: StL stadium chief: Replace dome, or lose Rams Pro sports extortion never ends: "[S]o-called 'state-of-the-art' clauses in stadium deals are a nightmare for cities, and a boon to team owners. The only thing the people of St....
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