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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A Visit to Unclaimed Baggage In August 2019 my brother Richard and I made a trip to Scottsboro and visited among other places Unclaimed Baggage. Their web site will tell you the store's history and how the business works. You …
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Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics.
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Justifying Constitutional Change in Foreign Affairs Outside of Article V For the Balkinization Symposium on Curtis A. Bradley, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard University Press, 2024).Jide Nzelibe Professor Bradley’s most recent book, Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs, makes a valuable …
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BikePortland
Portland Oregon bicycle news, events, culture, and opinion.
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Podcast: Artist and ride leader Shawn Granton Granton on N Vancouver Ave, Wednesday January 15th. (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) In this episode (YouTube version below), I sat down in the Shed with veteran Portland bike fun purveyor and artist Shawn Granton. Shawn has …
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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
More Than A Daredevil, Ruth Neely Paved The Way For Cincinnati’s Women Journalists When Ruth Neely France died in 1956 Cincinnati’s ink-stained wretches tumbled all over themselves to effusively memorialize Neely’s non-nonsense style and her outrageous adventures in the quest for a front-page headline. Some of the anecdotes …
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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 I have a time-machine fantasy We first started selling online tickets in 2005. We first started accepting credit cards at the bar in 2012. And If I could send a message through time to decades-ago past-me (and if for some …
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Ephemeral New York
Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts.
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This 1958 residence is the only house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City The most famous architect of the 20th century, Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1,114 houses, offices, and other structures during a prominent professional life that spanned seven decades. Of these, 532 architectural works were actually completed, …
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The Fastest Slow Guy You Know
A blog about bicycles, Oakland, California, roads, trails, history.
By Morgan Fletcher. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Our First Families - Daughters of Spain - The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California • Sun, Dec 18, 1892 Page 15 Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californios Arguello, Noe, Vallejo, Martinez, Peralta; if you live …
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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
Everglades Mink (Neogale vison evergladensis) Scat Attracts Other Species The American mink is not endangered and lives all across North America in wetlands with the exception of the American Southwest, but the subspecies that occurs in the Everglades is considered threatened. Mink are weasels …
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Good Stuff NW
By Kathleen Bauer. 🇺🇸 More infoUpdated
Cheers to the Holidays: Four Favorite Cocktails Set the Mood During the holiday season my parents would invariably designate one evening before Christmas to invite friends over for an open house. My mom, a dedicated holiday baker, used the occasion to haul out all the …
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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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2024 Rewind reflections from the GGWash staff Happy Metro Rewind week to all who celebrate! Like many a group text, the GGWash staff chat was blowing up with all of us sharing our 2024 trip data with each other on Wednesday, when …
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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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Canoe Crops He keiki aloha nā mea kanuBeloved children are the plants(ʻŌlelo Noʻeau 684) In the recent past, significant advances in radiocarbon dating and the targeted re-dating of key Eastern Polynesian and Hawaiian sites has strongly supported …
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Old Structures Engineering – Blog
Engineering and Preservation.
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It Looked Familiar: Sewing Kit The She-Hulk and The Wasp go shopping: Needle Threading A Button at 39th Street and Broadway:
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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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Halt the Establishment of Battery Storage Facilities in Monterey and Santa Cruz County A petition to halt the establishment of battery storage facilities in Santa Cruz County has been created. Please sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-establishment-of-battery-storage-facilities-in-santa-cruz-county
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San Francisco Senior Beat
Smashing aging stereotypes through storytelling.
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Retirement sends Vonn Scott Bair full speed into long days as actor, playwright and game developer “Do what you want, and you will never work a day in your life.” That old adage, intones 66-year-old Vonn Scott Bair, “is a myth, a lie, a LIE.” He’s been doing what he wants …
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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 take up Maryland parents’ challenge to LGBTQ books in schools ShareThe Supreme Court will decide whether a group of Maryland parents can opt to have their children exempted from LGBTQ-themed storybooks. The justices on Friday afternoon granted Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a coalition of …
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Society for US Intellectual History
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“The Power of Disillusionment: Reflections on History, Adulthood, and Access to Knowledge”: Scott Richard St. Louis on Peter Baldwin’s *Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All* A few months ago, I experienced the joy of celebrating my thirtieth birthday with several friends and loved ones. It was an occasion that brought forth tremendous gratitude from deep Read more The post “The …
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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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Governor Healey Boasts of Transportation Successes In State of the Commonwealth Address In her second State of the Commonwealth address last night, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey laid out her reflection on how far the state has come, and where she intends to head next. Gov. Healey touched …