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“ON A JAG IN A HEALEY”

A STRANGE SUBHEAD for an R&T road test? Even more so: One of the road test’s stars was a 28-year-old David E. Davis, Jr., three years before his association with … Continue reading

March 16, 2023 · 1 Comment

“THE WEASEL” WENSLEY—A LESTRADE COLLEAGUE?

ONE OF THE ATTRACTIONS of Stephen Browning’s On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes is its encouraging me to perform added sleuthing. For example, Browning’s “Walk 7: East End” introduced me … Continue reading

March 15, 2023 · Leave a comment

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

March 14, 2023 · 5 Comments

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

March 13, 2023 · 4 Comments

ARE THERE ENOUGH OF US OUT THERE ALREADY?

IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT, beginning around 1950, we’re no longer living in the Holocene Epoch but the Anthropocene. It turns out that by many measures, including biomass, human beings have … Continue reading

March 12, 2023 · 4 Comments

BOOKMARKS FOR COOKS

I LOVE TO COOK and enjoy accumulating books. (The scholarly term “collecting” is something of a boast.) I have more than four packed shelves devoted to favorite cookbooks, including Woman’s … Continue reading

March 11, 2023 · 2 Comments

VIV’S LINES

DAUGHTER SUZ AND I RECENTLY caught the last part of Gone With the Wind. Each of us had seen this near-4-hour epic before, but this didn’t lessen the entertainment of … Continue reading

March 10, 2023 · Leave a comment

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

March 9, 2023 · 1 Comment

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

March 8, 2023 · Leave a comment