delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

baseball umpires -- 1/31/19

the twenty minutes in 1966 that created the internet -- 1/30/19

bronze age societies did not believe all debts should be paid -- 1/29/19

prostitution in early america -- 1/28/19

how a starch-making company led to the creation of the NFL -- 1/25/19

porgy and bess -- 1/24/19

the "wow!" signal -- 1/23/19

educating the gikuyu children -- 1/22/19

martin luther king and love -- 1/21/19

the origins of tennis -- 1/18/19

"lo" -- 1/17/19

papyrus was an alternative to timber -- 1/16/19

the entire government of portugal moves to brazil -- 1/15/19

pittsburgh's george westinghouse -- 1/14/19

the breakthrough in design that led to the chrysler building -- 1/11/18

gutenberg and wine -- 1/10/19

spontaneous human combustion -- 1/9/19

brazil: where "the work is great and many die"-- 1/8/19

the slaughter of the buffalo -- 1/7/19

the slugfest between DC and marvel comics -- 1/04/19

fifteen plants -- 1/3/19