delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject
paul simon on songwriting --9/29/17
upgrading our brains -- 9/28/17
the electrifying louisiana purchase -- 9/27/17
jimmy webb, glen campbell, and the wichita lineman -- 9/26/17
the monster eating states and cities -- 09/25/17
michelangelo and the sistine chapel -- 9/22/17
most italians did not speak italian -- 9/21/17
child labor in the coal mines -- 9/20/17
jesse james and the great era of train robberies -- 9/19/17
the liberation of prague -- 9/18/17
prisoners were placed in separate cells to stop disease -- 9/15/17
a philosopher of the absurd -- 9/14/17
passing for white -- 9/13/17
chairman mao zedong's father -- 9/12/17
the debut of john lennon's "imagine" -- 9/11/17
hyperinflation helped chairman mao into power -- 9/08/17
orwell versus huxley -- 9/07/17
gunfighting in the old west -- 9/6/17
immigrants were the backbone of the revolutionary army -- 9/05/17
sophia loren's lost childhood -- 9/01/17