IMAGES FROM AVIATION’S GOLDEN AGE
THE GOLDEN AGE of aviation is regarded as being the 1920s and 1930s. As noted by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “Airplanes evolved from wood-and-fabric biplanes to streamlined … Continue reading
OFFSHORED?—TO COLUMBUS OR ANN ARBOR PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we examined Princeton Professor Alan S. Blinder’s 2007 paper “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?” Today, in Part 2, we see what has transpired in … Continue reading
OFFSHORED?—TO COLUMBUS OR ANN ARBOR PART 1
OFFSHORING HAS HAD a profound effect on American life. In 2007, Alan S. Blinder of Princeton University published a paper addressing “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?” Sure enough, … Continue reading
DICTIONARIES—DULL, DRY, AND MUSTY?
SAMUEL JOHNSON’s A DICTIONARY of the English Language, 1755, is anything but dull. Nor is Ambrose Bierce’s A Devil’s Dictionary, 1911, at all dry and musty. The tradition is maintained … Continue reading
ADIEU, COOK’S
THE BANKRUPTCY OF famed travel agency Cook’s is sad indeed after its 178 years in providing travel services. I have a bibliographic interest, in that my most recent Cook’s Traveller’s … Continue reading
A WELL-CONNECTED HOLMES PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE discussed Sherlock Holmes’ connectedness through news periodicals and Her Majesty’s Post. Today, the Baker Street Irregulars, telegraphy and telephony come to the aid of the world’s first consulting … Continue reading
A WELL-CONNECTED HOLMES PART 1
HOLMES CHRONICLER Dr. John H. Watson once called London “that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” On the other hand, this … Continue reading
ON LIVING HIGH—LITERALLY
I AM PRONE to moderate altitude sickness. I’m fine in mile-high Denver. I’ve learned to motivate slowly at Grand Canyon Village’s 6804 ft. Airliner cabins at an equivalent 8000 ft. … Continue reading
LEAVE THE DRIVING TO THEM
“GO GREYHOUND AND leave the driving to us” has been the company slogan since 1956. And, in 1969, R&T wrote, “As any Jaguar, Porsche, or Ferrari owner knows, Greyhound buses … Continue reading
☞ HURRAH FOR THE MANICULE! ☜
PERHAPS I GOT your attention today thanks to a pair of manicules bracketing the headline above. I hadn’t known their typographic name until reading about it in Keith Houston’s Shady … Continue reading
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