Blogs about United States of America
18 blogs about United States of America.
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Alabama Yesterdays
“Random wanderings through Alabama history.” By A.J. Wright. 🇺🇸Updated
Birmingham's Hillman Hospital Opens in 1903 In July 2014 I posted an item on this blog, "Hillman Hospital and How It Became UAB." I recently came across the article below published in the May 3, 1903, issue of the Birmingham Post-Herald …
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Balkinization
“A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics.” 🇺🇸Updated
The Law-Breaking Supreme Court The rule of law means, at its core, that those who govern may not simply issue decrees. Their actions must be based on reasons that are publicly known. Power must explain itself. So it should …
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BikePortland
“Portland Oregon bicycle news, events, culture, and opinion.” 🇺🇸Updated
Weekend Event Guide: Nerds in Cully, Speedvagen sale, and more Did you know Cully is home to Portland’s first Euro-style cycle-track? See it Saturday on the PBOT Bike Advisory Committee Ride. (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) September is almost gone and the summer-to-fall transition is hitting hard …
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brr
“An Antarctica blog.” 🇺🇸Updated
South Pole Electrical Infrastructure Power generation and distribution at the South Pole.
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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.” 🇺🇸Updated
First Look at Electric Service Caltrain's proposed weekday peak serviceCaltrain has started to pull back the curtain on their fall 2024 service pattern, when the electric fleet will (finally!) enter service.The peak service pattern is depicted at right from a …
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Cincinnati Curiosities
“Working overtime to keep alive the weird soul of the Queen City.” By Greg Hand. 🇺🇸Updated
From Grocer’s Itch To Milk Leg: Here Are 17 Antique Diseases That Once Tormented Cincinnatians If you practiced medicine in Cincinnati during the 1800s, you encountered some nasty and mostly fatal germs like typhus, diphtheria, smallpox, and dysentery. In the age before antibiotics, your therapeutic options might involve anything from …
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Ephemeral New York
“Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.” 🇺🇸Updated
Three eras in New York City history, three vastly different subway sign styles How boring would the New York City subway system be if every station was built at the same time, resulting in a uniform look for the signs outside every subway entrance? Luckily, that didn’t happen. …
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The Fastest Slow Guy You Know
“A blog about bicycles, Oakland, California, roads, trails, history.” By Morgan Fletcher. 🇺🇸Updated
BERKELEY LOSS $9,000,000: 3,000 HOMELESS, 100 INJURED - The San Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, September 19, 1923 100 years ago, almost to the day, a terrible fire wiped out 640 homes in Berkeley: The 1923 Berkeley, California, fire was a conflagration that consumed some 640 structures, including 584 houses in the densely-built …
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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. 🇺🇸Updated
Excerpts from my Memoirs, The Living Crutch: My Life as a Longtime Caregiver Chapter 4 Prozac is the best marriage counselor I put supper on the table, and I was hungry. I couldn’t wait to eat baked chicken with a cracker crumb crust, mashed potatoes, and marinated broccoli–a meal everybody …
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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.” 🇺🇸Updated
Photo Friday: Party party party! Take in these images from Instagram posts that tagged @greater_greater_washington and from the Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool. This week featuring people partying both at the GGWash Fall Mixer and everywhere else in town! …
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Images of Old Hawaiʻi
“Bringing People, Places, and Events in Hawaiʻi’s past alive through text and media.” 🇺🇸Updated
Kapaʻakea Spring It was once a perched water-table pond and spring. It was originally known as Kumulae Spring (Pond – also Kapaʻakea and later Hausten Spring/Pond) and was reportedly the property of Kamāmalu (sister of Kamehameha IV …
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Old Structures Engineering – Blog
“Engineering and Preservation.” 🇺🇸Updated
It Looked Familiar: Landmarks Above, a street scene immediately before some very bad things happen in a Gotham City story without Batman, “GCPD: The Blue Wall.” Below Apple’s “Look Around” looking west on 22nd Street from just east of …
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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.” 🇺🇸Updated
Saturday 10/7: Stand Up for Trans Youth! Town Hall A Seat at the Table Books 9257 Laguna Springs Dr. Suite 130 Elk Grove, CA (Sacramento area)
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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.” 🇺🇸Updated
Section 8 vouchers take center stage in dispute between landlord and disabled tenant ShareThe Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Federal law bars housing discrimination against a …
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Society for US Intellectual History
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“How Machines Came to Speak (and How to Shut Them Up)”: Alex Sayf Cummings on Jennifer Petersen’s *How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech* Rarely does a day go by when a dedicated follower of the news does not hear some musing about artificial intelligence (AI). And nowhere is this truer than in the Read more The post “How …
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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….” 🇺🇸Updated
Saturday Brings ‘Pedal Power’ to Museum of Science On Saturday, the Museum of Science will welcome greater Boston’s bicycling community with a day of talks and activities to promote efforts to make the region a better place to get around by bike. Several …
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Streets.mn
“Transportation and Land Use in Minnesota.” 🇺🇸Updated
Thoughts on I-94, and Yet Another Idea Putting rail in the I-94 trench is an idea I’ve seen pop up on occasion, whether regional rail or a metro/subway. In theory, this would provide a faster downtown-to-downtown connection for fairly cheap. I support …
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Washington Smoke Information
“We coordinate to collectively share info for Washington communities affected by wildfire smoke.” 🇺🇸Updated
Residential wood smoke from home-heating on the rise It's gotten cold out there! Autumn is finally here and with that comes cooler weather and the need to heat homes. Residential wood smoke from home-heating should be expected, especially at night and in the …
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