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Kakistocracy. Raubwirtschaft, and Whipping Machines
Leave a commentJune 8, 2017 by libroshombre
When my beloved Texas Rangers baseball team established a new American League record recently for striking out at least …
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Odors, Cursive, and Reading
Leave a commentJune 8, 2017 by libroshombre
Reading a new library book by Keith Houston titled “The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the most Powerful Object …
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Flogging, Peacocks, and Thicknesse
Leave a commentMay 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Teaching an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class on Patrick O’Brian was more involved than anticipated. Having read (and listened …
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Humpty, Pied, and Krazy
Leave a commentMay 9, 2017 by libroshombre
Some words seem made to go together, and the ones that actually do become “portmanteaus.” A portmanteau’s a large, stiff-sided …
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OLLI, Yancey, and X
Leave a commentMay 3, 2017 by libroshombre
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), one of Fairbanks’ intellectual jewels like our public library, offers a wide array …
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Abhorring Information Banning
Leave a commentApril 24, 2017 by libroshombre
A recent round of reading has left me ready to revive the seventeenth-century British political party known as “the …
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T, Temple, and Lady Betty
1April 24, 2017 by libroshombre
It might have been learning about Richard “Waterfront” Brown during Osher Lifelong Learning’s Fairbanks history class that got me …
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