THE SCIENCE OF ARMED FORCES SONGS
I ENJOY Sirius XM satellite radio, everything from Radio Classics (channel 82) through Met Opera Radio (channel 74) to ’40s on 4 (you guessed it, channel 4). Likely because of … Continue reading
LA PYRAMIDE F. POINT
THE FATHER of nouvelle cuisine, Fernand Point located his restaurant in the town of Vienne, 20 miles south of Lyon, about halfway between Paris and the Riviera. One of the … Continue reading
INTEROP
WHEN I send an e-mail from my PC to someone using an iMac, or when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at Promontory Summit, Utah, we both counted on … Continue reading
MOUNT EQUINOX F3
RACING A really small car up a really big hill may not seem like the most logical activity for the likes of me, but it was certainly a ball. The … Continue reading
BAEDEKER’S HANDBOOKS FOR TRAVELERS
I LOVE Baedeker’s handbooks, especially those published during their glory years of 1900 to the onset of World War I. Pocket sized—provided one’s coat has generous pockets—these little red guidebooks with … Continue reading
CROSS-COUNTRY TRAVEL TAKES OFF, SORT OF
TRANSCONTINENTAL Air Transport, TAT, for short, initiated the first scheduled coast-to-coast travel on July 7, 1929. Only a portion of the 48-hour trip was by air, but it still beat … Continue reading
HYDROGEN I.C., PART 3: BMW
BMW WAS another automaker exploring H2 I.C. Back in 2006 I went to Berlin to sample the company’s dual-fuel gasoline/hydrogen 7 Series. This car took advantage of liquid hydrogen, LH2, … Continue reading
ROB’S NEW MOON
ROB WALKER, rest his soul, was a grand prix team owner and a contributing editor of Road & Track (he called Dottie Clendenin his “editoress”). Because people may ask, I … Continue reading
HYDROGEN I.C., PART 2: MAZDA
MY FIRST hydrogen internal-combustion drive came in 1994 when Mazda invited me to Vancouver, B.C., to experience a special Miata. This one had an RX-7 rotary engine fueled by H2. … Continue reading
THE HOLMES-WOLFE LINK
WILLIAM BARING-Gould, a most notable Sherlockian scholar (see http://wp.me/p2ETap-3v), has presented the thesis that famed detective Nero Wolfe is the love-child of Holmes and Irene Adler. As chronicler John H. … Continue reading
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