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E.B. White: “Death of a Pig”

“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.”https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/01/death-pig/309203/

Los Angeles, 1883

With the beginning of the prosperity of the City of the Angels came the end of its primeval peace. Spanish viceroys, Mexican alcaldes and governors,…

Dahlias!

A Good Idea from Imperial China

How does America extricate itself from the death grip of corrupt buffoons, zombie shills, and despicable sociopaths overwhelming our government and souls? tps://www.ancient.eu/article/1335/the-civil-service-examinations-of-imperial-china/

John Muir on Hetch Hetchy

Hetch Hetchy is one of a magnificent brotherhood of Yosemite Valleys, distant from Yosemite Valley, so-called, eighteen or twenty miles in a northwesterly direction, but…

The Gift of Muir Woods

The White HouseWashington, DCJanuary 22, 1908 My dear Mr. Kent: I have just received from Secretary Garfield your very generous letter enclosing the gift of…

The Death of Benny Paret

Paret was a Cuban, a proud club fighter who had become welterweight champion because of his unusual ability to take a punch. His style of…

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