This article, reproduced in full below the cut for when I read this six years from now and the article is gone:

( No idea what I'm gonna do with it, but wow. )

I don't know about the rest of you, but I didn't know the White House had ever been gutted and rebuilt in the 20th century, much less that it had been done for fear of collapse. Some neat pictures here!

Okay, back to writing and drinking tea...
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A first-hand observer's report of the Pearl Harbor bombings was finally published today by the Washington Post; it was originally considered too graphic to print.  It's available here.  (The reporter who wrote this went on to be a wartime spy; at 97, she's still alive today and was featured in an early WP article on two former senior CIA women who ( Read more... )

Mithridatism:  The developing of immunity to a poison by taking gradually increasing doses of it.

I can't decide if I love that there's a word for this, or if it worries me.  Off to look up the etymology...

ETA:  Personally, I think pretty much everyone reading this journal is smarter than to try that out, but my advice on the subject would be: don't ( Read more... )

Don't ask me why, either. Today I saw a guy wearing sunglasses that had a grey camo pattern on the outside of the lenses. I don't doubt he could see through it, but wow. ::amused:: I completely *do not* see the point of that ( Read more... )

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The link alone should tell you what you're getting into. (This was fun!)

In A Mass Knife Fight To The Death Between Every American President Who Would Win And Why

(I do agree with some of the comments that Jimmy Carter was underrated.  Naval academy and then years as a farmer?  That can make you pretty tough.)
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Seriously, go look at both the sign and the lady holding it.  It's too apt not to share.
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From the play/movie 1776, an exchange between Stephen Hopkins, a glorious man from Rhode Island (the one who's always drinking rum), and Dr. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania. (What?  Does he need introduction?).

Hopkins: Ah, Ben! I want you to see some cards I'd gone and had printed up. Oughta save everybody here a lot of time and effort, ( Read more... )