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David Schraub: Reinventing Charlemagne
As usual, TNC hits out of the park: Consider this: what if you were a medievalist and the majority of your public simply refused to accept that Charlemagne ever existed. Indeed, what if they felt their...
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: July 23-29, 2012.
Both of the NBA's summer leagues have concluded (with my Warriors going 5-0 in Vegas!), and the NBA finals are a distant memory. That should do it for basketball, right?Wrong! As Kevin Durant stated...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Art Strikes Back: 24 More Sweet Star Wars Graffiti Artworks
[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ] A generation of artists who grew up on Star Wars is now decorating tunnels, alleys and other urban surfaces with Darth Vader, Yoda, Han Solo and...
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David Schraub: Body Swappers
Wouldn't it be awesome if former Florida Governor Charlie Crist (then-R, now-I) and Alabama ex-Rep. Artur Davis (then-D, now-R) ran against each other for something in the future?This came to mind...
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Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Television and published fiction, 2
The other TV series that became a favorite in our household in the past couple years was Bones. The series was created by Hart Hanson and based very loosley on a character created by Kathy...
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David Schraub: Hell's Kitchen: Grading the Top Ten
With the elimination of Patrick, we're down to the Hell's Kitchen top ten. I have to say, for all the drama and chaos of this season, there's a fair bit of quality amongst the chefs remaining. Not all...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Skyscraper of the Sea: Research Ship Sailed by Astronauts
[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Visionary French architect Jacques Rougerie has refined the SeaOrbiter design concept for over a decade, and is finally seeing his...
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Kelly O'Brien '12: “A drunk Bill Murray hosts a tour of the Moonrise Kingdom...
“A drunk Bill Murray hosts a tour of the Moonrise Kingdom set and talks about his patchwork madras pants.”
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Kelly O'Brien '12: New Work by Banksy Police in London have been fighting a...
New Work by Banksy Police in London have been fighting a battle with graffiti artists in an attempt to clean up the city for the Olympic games this summer. In recent times it has been common to hear...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Spend the money, now
Muhammed Bello and Onwuka Nzeshi, writing in This Day (Lagos), explain why some members of the Nigerian House of Representatives have threatened to impeach President Jonathan because his government is...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #108 – Right Angle of Repose
Well, folks, some of us are likely to get more severe storms today, and I thought about this picture Amanda sent me of her daughter Lauren, who appears to be awesome at finding hidey holes in which to...
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Dan Schofer '00
7-21-2012Mud + Irish + Mt. Vernon + Athletic Fields. 60 minutes. 8 miles.Slow and easy run. Felt a little better.
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