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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,757

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 21, 2024

This is the grave of Elihu Thomson. Born in 1853 in Manchester, England, Thomson grew up in the United States after his family moved to Philadelphia in 1858. He was a good student, graduated from Central High School, and then became a chemistry teacher at...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,697

By Erik Loomis

On September 3, 2024

This is the grave of William Stanley. Born in 1858 in Brooklyn, Stanley grew up well off and ended up at Yale, where he graduated in 1881. He was a.

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LGM Film Club, Part 25: More Power to the American Farmer

By Erik Loomis

On June 22, 2020

This 1946 General Electric film is an attempt to get rural communities to invest in building or expanding their electric supply infrastructure. I'm not going to lie--this is pretty boring..

How to Get Something Done in Government, 1949

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 6, 2015

I am presently doing research at the Library of Congress. I just ran across this oddity. Ula Glen of Crestone, Colorado was a ranch wife. Somehow (this is not quite clear to me), she knew Leo Goodman, who was a housing and later nuclear expert...

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Power and the Land

By Erik Loomis

On April 5, 2015

Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff..

Sly Has it ever occurred to you that daycare facilities in the 1980s really were being run by Satanic cults?
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joel_hanes I had thought CBP jurisdiction was supposed to be limited to 100 miles from the US border? I guess it's less than 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean ...
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wengler A lot of Trumpers just want permission to murder their neighbors and take their stuff .
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Old God New Tricks But it's still not enough. Europe from Austria to Iceland is over 400 million.
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