Category: history
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Beowulf and Typical Teen Stuff
Cascadia Weekly just published an interview with Rosalind Reynolds https://www.cascadiaweekly.com/cw/currents/back_in_time_with_beowulf <p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">The <a href="https://sylviacenterforthearts.org/event/unsung-by-rosalind-reynolds/2021-03-19/">show, Unsung, opens Fria Mar 19</a> at 7:30.The show, Unsung, opens Fria Mar 19 at 7:30.
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Tweed ride thots
Thots on 2015 tweed ride possibilities Non-facebook page. FB is convenient but not all-inclusive. Blog? – historically appropriate venue: Roeder Home – keg – invite a photographer with a field camera (WCC) with polariod back and demonstrate a phosphorous flash – kids crafts table before hand – start ride at library? – have handouts on…
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Net Neutrality | Electronic Frontier Foundation
FTA: The FCC has a poor track record of getting net neutrality right. In January 2014, a federal court rejected the bulk of the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet order. The rules that the court threw out, however, were deeply flawed. Protecting net neutrality is a hard problem, with no easy solutions. … [W]e are asking…
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When These Experts Savage U.S. Drone Policy, It’s Time to Worry – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic
From the article: …the Obama administration hasn’t rigorously evaluated whether its drone strikes are helping or harming national security; it is setting dangerous precedents; it isn’t doing enough to prevent proliferation; and it is undermining democracy with excessively secretive practices that could also undermine the program’s long-term efficacy. via When These Experts Savage U.S. Drone…
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Family Veterans
At my request for our kid’s school veteran’s day project, I asked my mother, Jennifer, to root out some family veteran’s photos. This set is the oldest vet in the family (on the Flesher side, at least): Henry Flesher. Fought in the Revolutionary War. Obviously, this isn’t a “photo” since they weren’t invented then, but…
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