LORE FROM LRB LETTERS
THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS devotes a full page each issue to “Letters,” and a goodly number of these are as entertaining and informative as LRB articles. Here are tidbits … Continue reading
NORWAY—A BEV PARADISE PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we learned what Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1930, had to say about Norway. Today, we discuss this Scandinavian country’s love affair with Battery Electric Vehicles. … Continue reading
NORWAY—BEV PARADISE PART 1
I’VE NEVER BEEN TO NORWAY, but recognize this Scandinavian country’s accelerated transition to battery electric cars (despite nay sayers such as, you guessed it, Luddite me). Isn’t it about time … Continue reading
ALEXANDRIA TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEFT THE Pharos of Alexandria in ruins, thanks largely to earthquakes abetted by the cost of a crumbling building’s upkeep, even if regarded as one of the Seven … Continue reading
ALEXANDRIA TIDBITS PART 1
ALEXANDER THE GREAT founded a city on the southeast Mediterranean coast in 331 B.C. In time, Alexandria was the largest city in the world, with a major reclamation project being … Continue reading
RLS’S GRANDDAD’S LIGHTHOUSES
ROSEMARY HILL ENCOURAGED another bit of my Internet sleuthing with her recent review of Veronica della Dora’s Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse in London Review … Continue reading
THE EGG, THE HINDI, AND I
A RESTAURANT REVIEW in The New Yorker, January 30, 2023, and an article in The New York Times, February 6, 2023, got me thinking about eggs. Here are tasty tidbits … Continue reading
EVEREST, THE QUEEN, AND A CODED MESSAGE BY RUNNER
ONE OF THE FIRST ROYAL ACTIONS of the coronated Queen Elizabeth II was to knight Edmund Hillary for the conquest of Mt. Everest. In fact, loudspeakers announced the conquest to … Continue reading
FOOLIN’ WITH MOTHER NATURE
AN INTERESTING TIDBIT got me looking into what’s sorta a family matter. It involves a river that runs backwards, at least at the moment, and the tradeoffs of fooling with … Continue reading
CELEBRATING THE SKYSCRAPERS’ GRANDFATHER AND KIN
I’VE NEVER BEEN TO “the grandfather of skyscrapers,” but I have visited its elder cousin. Here are tidbits about both. The Ditherington Flax Mill, 1797. Also known as the Shrewsbury … Continue reading
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