Math Corner brainteaser.
In the Math Corner at the end of my March Diary I stated a theorem about divisibility and challenged readers to prove it. My proof is here.
Dickens, Twain, and that tobacco.
Also in the March Diary I wondered if the reference to Negro-head tobacco in my 2003 Barnes & Noble Classics edition of
Great Expectations, Chapter 40, was a bowdlerization of something slightly different in the 1861 original of that novel.
Several readers stepped up to that one.
Sorry, John; it s Negro-head all right. At least it is in the Sheldon & Co edition, 1862.
Nothing to be sorry about, Sir, I just honestly wanted to know.
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Above, two sisters dropped and abandoned over the New Mexico-Mexico border wall chat with El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez. U.S. Customs and Border Protection
That, you may recall, was about two infants little girls aged five and three who had been taken up to the top of our southern border wall and then dropped fourteen feet into the U.S.A.
Well, my commentary was
obliquely about that. The dropping of the infants was what we ink-stained wretches in the journalism business refer to as a hook : in this case, a hook on which to hang some opinions about where the proper focus of our concern should be directed in the matter of illegal immigration.
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