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This is a guest post by Ryn Cole, who was an intern this summer in the Office of Communications. It appears in slightly different form in the November-December issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. The fourth Thursday in November today means family, food and giving thanks. The national holiday of Thanksgiving, however, did not come quickly or easily. The precedent for a national Thanksgiving holiday can be attributed, in …

Some of us are lucky and sell out our concert, or have to close our choir to new members. photo by Pacopac It’s a nice problem to have, but I hate turning people away, so are there alternatives? It’s inevitable that when you offer something good, there will come a time when you become over-subscribed. Your concert or singing workshop sells out, or you reach capacity with your choir membership. …

In this episode we interview Condemner, their history, their latest album ‘Male Patratis Sunt Atra Theatra Parata’, what’s in store for the future, and the health of underground metal.

Music Review – November 2024 The Wirral, where I was born and bred, has an incredibly rich Viking heritage and is the only place in mainland Britain to have documented evidence of Norwegian Viking Settlers, from 902AD. This album is a homage to that heritage and the many place from around the peninsula whose names are born of Viking tongue. The Wirral and Chester’s city walls are two of my …

Little pasta-dough gnocchi from Sardinia, these are malloreddus. Fun to make and great with a pork ragu. Malloreddus Pasta is the latest post on Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

Written by MichaelThat sandwich is well guarded. So, after my last session, I took a break, had a sandwich (or two or three, it has been a few days since that last post) and I’m ready to hop back into the game. When we last controlled the young mystic, I was wondering how to pay for my cruise trip and even how to spring my suitor stalker friend co-worker Marko …

The Art of Selling Movies #1 --- Carolina, The Country Doctor, and The FanCAROLINA (1934) --- At left is what they used to call a “mini-window card.” Sample shown is apx. 8X11, a blank margin likely trimmed off at some point. Idea was to print or hand-write playdates in the white space, then post cards on cooperating store windows. Merchants used to assist one another that way. A Fox Films …

Hundreds of patients with a rare genetic condition that causes rickets and severe bone and dental problems can now receive a “life-changing” new therapy on the NHS in England. Targeted drug burosumab has been shown to help transform the lives of adults with an inherited condition that leads to low levels of the mineral phosphate […]

(Links below may be affiliate links that earn commission when you make a purchase—it’s how I am able to keep making this site and do fun coverage of events like Pitti Uomo. Thanks!) Here’s a running list of Black Friday sales for you to shop this week. I’ll keep this list updated as I come across new ones I discover throughout the week. Spier & Mackay — Up to 20% …

"Imagine an early Eighties Eastern European space-prog album high on sugary breakfast cereal, “Heavy Metal” magazine, Hanna-Barbera cartoons and 8-bit arcade games like Galaxian and Asteroids, and you have some idea of the otherworldly weirdness of the Romanian animated sci-fi film DELTA SPACE MISSION. In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta – whose highly advanced computer brain develops a …

It really has been a strange sort of a year . A spring so wet it was biblical . Followed by a summer that never really matured it was either too hot or too cold and things never really seemed to get going , Rising fish seem to have been notably absent and judging by other anglers I speak to that seems to have been a pretty common experience. The …

Piles of shaped logs on the beach at Madras, India. (This is a re-post from August, 2020.) I do like cameras. In fact, I love them. But, relatively speaking, I don't write about them all that much. I'm told by photo-blogging friends that if I were to write about cameras more often I would have more readers. Many people want to read and learn about the latest and greatest in …

Before Turner there was no fog in London. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1: String Compression You are given a string of alphabetic characters, $chars. Write a script to compress the string with run-length encoding. A compressed unit can be either a single character or a count followed by a character. BONUS: Write a decompression function. After working so much with recursion for the previous challenge, …

I grew up in the shadow of New York City, and while it was a populated area, the town I lived in lacked a lot of conveniences. We had no fast food chains, no mall, and no department stores. So, we were always forced to leave town to do things like back-to-school shopping. Then it was announced that we would be getting a mall in town and that the anchor …