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Rabbi Elazar of Bartota said: Give to G-d of that which is G-d's, for you and whatever is yours are of G-d. And so did David say, "For all things are from You, and from Your own have we given You." -
Beasts of the field and birds of the air
Masonic rituals are morality plays ( Read more... ) -
Esther Miriam B*ro*sky Kramer
Madam's great grandmother ( Read more... ) -
microhistory
watching re-runs of Goodson-Todman (particularly "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line") game shows is a glimpse of what my parents' generation found unusual/arresting as young-ish adults -
Retail politics
Among my tropes is the story of how my mother voted for a School Committee candidate simply because he had gone to school with me (as I remember we read the Iliad together as seniors [Class I as we were known then]). While this is an example of Boston's tribalism, a few other stories point to the expectations that that tribalism places on ( Read more... ) -
Baby Boy Spisak
as it happens, there are two repositories of Mass. BMD records at Columbia Point: the Mass Archives and the Registry of Vital Records ( Read more... ) -
creeping up on WHW
to restate the research problem at hand: when did William H White transfer from I/32d MVI to F/11th VRC? which would be a whole lot easier if I had his pension file but ( Read more... ) -
more WHW
we can exclude malaria contracted during the Peninsula Campaign as the cause of WHW moving from I/32d MVI to F/11th VRC
according to the unit history(The Story of the 32d Massachusetts Infantry by [Col.] Francis J Parker; Boston:1880 CW Calkins), the regiment's 3d battalion (Cos I-M) was forming in Lynnfield while the other 8 companies were on the ( Read more... ) -
AI
during our class reunion last week, Guy Steele [yes, the Guy Steele], asked me about AI
thinking in terms of HAL, I downplayed the state of the art but, noting that most technological jumps happen in either toys or warfare, suggested that watching the development of NPCs would be fruitful
reading Yuval Noah Hariri's Homo Deus, however, I'm thinking ( Read more... ) -
More William H White
to remind the reader: Mass Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War has him discharged from the 11th [Regiment] Veteran's Reserve Corps in Dec 1864 but has no date for his transfer from Co I, 32d Mass Volunteer Infantry ( Read more... )