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An Eclectic Journal of Opinion, History, Poetry and General Bloviating
Sunday, September 25, 2022
First Colonial Newspaper Speedily Killed by Censorship
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Back in the days when I was in school one of the little factoids that I learned that stuck with me was that the first newspaper in the Co...
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Decades Before You Thought The First Powered Flight Took to the Air
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Henri Giffard's steam powered dirigible in 1854. Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a recurring interest in innovations in...
Friday, September 23, 2022
Nixon Used Our Little Dog Checkers as His Shield
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Giving the Checkers speech, Nixon sat behind the kind of home desk many middle class men used to pay the monthly bills. He outlined his fin...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Equinox Dawn—Murfin Verse
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The doomed boxelder tree and it hale neighbor, the five-trunk silver maple. It’s the Autumnal Equinox . A year ago in the grey dawn I wen...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Murfin Calendar Coincidence Verse— International Day of Peace/Autumnal Equinox
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This is another one of the calendar poems inspired by random , or not so random, coincidences of dates , usually discovered as I am in a m...
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