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Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Islamic History and Culture (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Islamic History and Culture...so far.
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Daily Drawing 871
I’ve always been a traveller. Not full time or all the time, but every ten years or so my feet start itching and I want to quit the job, flat and place I’m in and head off somewhere entirely new. This comes from Fergie, someone I used to...
Listening a couple of days ago to the radio program Exploring Music, I learned something about English morphology. The episode broadcast on 5/18/2026 has the title "What else ya got?", and host Bill McGlaughlin introduces it this way:...
Faig Ahmed. OPERATIONS: ALL THE THINGSSTATUS: inbox 175, rss 1000, everything is out of controlREADING: THE REVOLUTIONISTS, Jason Burke (UK) (US+) By Christmas 1975, the CIA’s…
A lengthy article on organizational knowledge and the people in the field highlights a number of common mistakes, all of which I have witnessed in my almost three decades of professional practice. Treating organizational knowledge as an...
By Dale HoustonDuck & Crow PressOSRLevels: Low/"Rookies" Under a raging river of turbulent, caustic water that melts organic material in moments lies the decrepit remains of a nefarious wizard’s lair. Opening a passage under the river...
20 May 2026: Another installment in All Peregrines, All The Time. The peregrine family at the Cathedral of Learning is in for some excitement today. Carla and Ecco’s four chicks will be banded this morning. Just after 9:00am Patti Barber...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Gil Thorp,...
George "Buzz" Beurling shot down 31 enemy planes over Malta, got fired for shooting at his own commanding officer, and died on a covert arms run to Israel at 26. Canada's most celebrated fighter ace had a life stranger than any war film.