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That seems to be the Brave New Normal on offer…..and the chances are, it’s going to be our fault. To save the sanity of those born in the Age of Enlightenment, The Slog plumps for hilarity and going down laughing Unfortunately, this extract from Saturday’s  Daily Twinsegraph is genuine: You read it here first: ‘…if you hide from a virus, it will just come back with greater force later’. I can imagine how the Pharmafia will spin this one to their advantage, although I don’t really want to think about it. Nor am I at all chuffed by vindication of the natural Slogarithm coming to...

William Patrick CONNERY, Jr., Congress, MA (1888-1937) CONNERY William Patrick, Jr. , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lynn, Mass., August 24, 1888; attended St. Mary's School at Lynn, Montreal College in Canada 1902-1904, and Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., 1904-1908; entered the theatrical profession as an actor 1908-1916; engaged as a theater manager in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and First Regiment, United States Infantry, and served nineteen months in France; electric company employee 1919-1921; engaged in the manu...

Sydenham Benoni ALEXANDER, Congress, NC (1840-1921) ALEXANDER Sydenham Benoni , a Representative from North Carolina; born at ``Rosedale,'' near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C., December 8, 1840; attended preparatory schools at Rocky River and Wadesboro, N.C.; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private in the First Regiment, North Carolina Volunteer Infantry; elected captain of Company K, Forty-second North Carolina Regiment, in June 1862; detached from his company in 1864 and serv...

On the morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves dressed as policemen walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and walked out with 13 pieces of art valued at half a billion dollars. Twenty-eight years later, it remains the largest unsolved art heist. In September, WBUR and the Boston Globe are launching a podcast, titled Last Seen, that will dive into the heist's mysteries. (You could listen to the trailer and subscribe to be notified as soon as there are new episodes here.) Before that, we asked critic Lloyd Schwartz to take a look at the art our city lost: 'The Concert'

Minnesota K-12 Social Studies Draft Dumps Major U.S. Historical Events for ‘Systemic Racism’ 15 Jan 2021 The Minnesota Department of Education has released its first draft of K-12 social studies standards for the next ten years, a proposal that omits most of the significant events in American history and focuses, instead, on “systemic racism” and the oppression of “marginalized” people throughout U.S. and Minnesota history. The entire draft can be viewed here. It includes the following standards: 17.6.2 Define political, economic, spatial and historical perspectives and apply them...