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(NYTimes) - ... It’s been 10 years now, and “SpongeBob” still seems refreshing and innocent compared with so much other precocious children’s programming. Edward Gorey, the master illustrator of the macabre, once said that there is no such thing as “happy nonsense.” “SpongeBob” could be the exception. Continued
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(Politics Daily) - John Calvin turned 500 Friday and he's probably never looked better. This makeover is no mean feat, not just because Calvin is so old, but because for most of that time he has been identified -- with some justification, so to speak -- with the most dour form of Christianity. Or, as religion writer Ray Waddle puts it, "religion that won't dance."
... But perhaps we shouldn't try to tame Calvin too much. In the current economic climate, the man credited with shaping a sober form of capitalism -- Calvin's thought lay behind Max Weber's landmark 1905 study, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" -- may have more to say to us today than ever. Calvin's fierce writings against materialism, and his equation of theft with murder, and the rich with thieves, certainly strike a satisfying chord as we look around at the Bernie Madoffs of the world. "Calvin said if you have so much then you probably stole it!" as Stanley Hauerwas, the quotable theologian and social ethicist at Duke -- and fan of Calvin --put it to me. Continued
(NYTimes) - “YOU’RE going to want the jumbos, hon,” my waitress said as she stood, pen poised over her pad, next to my unadorned pine picnic table on the crowded outdoor deck of Waterman’s crab house.
I understood the advice. There’s nothing more disheartening than picking up a steamed blue crab that looks undersize and limp, without the ballast of plenty of meat under the shell — and knowing that the minutes about to be spent cracking and picking through it will be less than amply rewarded. Continued
(Smithsonian) - Love them or hate them, the once-ubiquitous women’s accessory was a revolutionary invention that helped transform women’s fashion. Continued
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(YDR) - The Friends of Wallace-Cross Mill want to learn more about the mill's last owner.
Harry Cross gave his East Hopewell Township mill to York County 30 years ago Sunday. It's now a landmark where visitors can see how millers ground farmers' grains to make feed and flour on the site as early as 1826. Continued
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(Wikipedia) - Thomas West, 3rd (or 12th) Baron De La Warr (July 9, 1577 – June 7, 1618) was the Englishman after whom the bay, river, American Indian tribe, and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named.
... After the Powhattans murdered the colony's governor, Lord Ratcliffe, and attacked the colony in the first First Anglo-Powhatan War, Lord De La Warr headed the contingent of 150 men who landed in Jamestown, Virginia on June 10, 1610, just in time to persuade the original settlers not to give up and go home to England. Continued
(Huffington Post) - National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
Many historical items the Archives once possessed are missing, including: Continued
