Blogs about United States of America
22 blogs about United States of America.
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Alabama Yesterdays
Random wanderings through Alabama history.
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Alabama's Centennial Half-Dollar In 2019 I wrote a blog post about Alabama's 1919 statehood centennial celebrations. One of the featured items was a commemorative half-dollar coin issued by the U.S. Mint. In this post I wanted to delve …
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Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics.
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The Turn to Process in Comparative Context For the Balkinization symposium on Kunal Parker, The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023).Amalia D. Kessler Kunal Parker’s The Turn to Process is a sweeping intellectual history …
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BikePortland
Portland Oregon bicycle news, events, culture, and opinion.
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Leader of ODOT’s Portland area freeway projects takes an exit Brendan Finn in 2022. (Photo: ODOT) The man the Oregon Department of Transportation tapped nearly five years ago to deliver billions of dollars in freeway expansion projects in the Portland region is leaving the agency. …
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brr
An Antarctica blog.
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Brr Wants A Job 8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!
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Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog
This blog exists to discuss compatibility between HSR and Caltrain, integration issues, and the impact on adjoining communities.
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Caltrain's Plan for Level Boarding Some good news: Caltrain is working on a level boarding plan, as documents requested under the Public Records Act attest. Their "Level Boarding Roadmap: Technical Task Force Platform Report" dated April 2024 is a reasonably …
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Cincinnati Curiosities
Working overtime to keep alive the weird soul of the Queen City.
By Greg Hand. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Cincinnatians Gobbled Up Tales Of Barnyard Freaks And Vegetable Monstrosities As autumn leaves littered the increasingly wintry ground it was, in days gone by, the signal for newspapers to trumpet the latest freak of nature emerging from the local barnyards. Cincinnati editors gleefully pounced on …
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DNA Lounge: DNA Sequencing
A late-night, all ages San Francisco nightclub featuring live music, DJ dancing, burlesque shows, and private parties.
By Jamie Zawinski. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Wherein DNA Lounge is still here for you Today is a very bad day. Everyone I know is feeling hopeless, and helpless. But, when you can't fix the big problems, you start with the problems you can solve. Maybe that's just washing the …
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Ephemeral New York
Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.
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What John Sloan saw one Saturday night outside a butcher shop on Bleecker Street Maybe it’s a holiday evening, or perhaps the bright corner street lamp makes late-day shopping easier for these mostly faceless residents of Greenwich Village. Whatever the reason, there’s a line outside this corner meat market, …
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The Fastest Slow Guy You Know
A blog about bicycles, Oakland, California, roads, trails, history.
By Morgan Fletcher. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Brick-Makers' Protective Union & St. Ignatius Church Recently I went on a fun, weekend bicycle camping trip to Point Pinole with my friends Mark and Donna, and some of our mutual, and new friends. It was a delightful outing. Mark is interested …
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Georgia Before People
I’m writing this blog because I’m fascinated with what the ecology of southeastern North America was before people colonized the region and ruined it.
By Mark Gelbart. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
The Ancestors of House Cats (Felis sylvestris) Followed Human Farmers into Europe I’m living the “Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek. The plot of this episode revolves around cute, little, furry animals introduced on board the star ship Enterprise as pets. A problem arises when they …
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Good Stuff NW
By Kathleen Bauer. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Homemade Ricotta: Easy, Creamy, Dreamy! Writing this blog has been full of slap-upside-the-head, "D'oh!" moments over the years. There was the time someone mentioned making a stock from leftover corn cobs. And another time when I discovered how simple it …
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Greater Greater Washington
Builds informed and civically engaged communities who believe in a growing and inclusive Washington region and speak up for livable communities for all.
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Do Something: The week of November 11, 2024 Weekly, Regional Policy Director Dan Reed and DC Policy Director Alex Baca will share with you an action you can take in the immediate future that has the potential, sometimes great and sometimes small, to …
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Images of Old Hawaiʻi
Bringing People, Places, and Events in Hawaiʻi’s past alive through text and media.
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Captain Cook Monument Between 1768 and 1778 England’s maritime explorer, James Cook, made three expeditions to the Pacific. Cook’s third (and final) voyage (1776-1779) of discovery was an attempt to locate a North-West Passage, an ice-free sea route …
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Old Structures Engineering – Blog
Engineering and Preservation.
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A Rabbit Hole I Did Not See Coming As a structural engineer, I do not examine old boilers, but I do see them quite often. The older ones tend to be abandoned in place because (a) they are huge and heavy, and will …
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Political⚡Charge
Activating America's Voters.
By Tokyo Sand. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Wrapping Up the 2024 Election Well, my friends. That election certainly didn’t go the way we wanted, did it. If you’re anything like me, you’ve gone through a range of emotions these last four days. I was numb for two …
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San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
A non-commercial, democratic collective serving as the local organizing unit of the global IMC network.
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Wednesday 11/20: The People's Arms Embargo - No Weapons to Israel! PEOPLE'S ARMS EMBARGO: Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA Rally and Nonviolent Human Blockade of Travis Air Force Base, from where US Weapons are transported to Israel. Where: At All Entrance Gates; Main Gate/Hospital Gate, …
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San Francisco Senior Beat
Smashing aging stereotypes through storytelling.
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Retiree wants your blood: Donor Ambassador devotes his all to Red Cross collection efforts Mark Sugarman wants to repair the world. The 79-year-old Financial District resident has spent his whole life following that maxim, which in Hebrew is known as Tikkun Olam. He does that through volunteering, which he …
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SCOTUSblog
Devoted to covering the US Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias according to the highest journalistic standards as a public service.
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Justices debate particularity of complaint in NVIDIA securities fraud suit ShareThe justices closed the November session on Wednesday with NVIDIA Corp v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, a case arising out of the use of NVIDIA chips by crypto miners. The legal problem presented for …
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Society for US Intellectual History
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Ang Li on William Gow’s *Performing Chinatown* William Gow’s Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community is an in-depth examination of Chinese American history in Los Angeles. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach Read more The post Ang …
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StreetsblogMASS
Connecting people from all walks of life to information about how to reduce dependence on cars, promote human-centered, equitable, and environmentally sustainable places….
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Commentary: A Reflection on the Election, and What Comes Next The last week has been a blur, and I’ve gone through most of my stages of grief in this situation – muting, blocking, unfollowing, planning to leave the country, checking the House of Representatives races, …