12/02/06 - 12/11/06; Sandy StraitsFinally, after four weeks docked in Bundaberg we were once again off sailing and looking for remote anchorages (something not easily found in the middle of an Australian summer). We started off by working our way south through the Sandy Straits. There...
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More history blogs!
Ralph Luker has updated Cliopatria's History Blogroll, now featuring nearly four hundred* of the best history blogs around. Check it out! There's something for everyone.*No, I didn't count. If anyone does bother to count them and I'm too far off, let me kn...
One Muslim, plus two Buddhists!
For those who missed it: The new Congress will have not only its first Muslim, but also its first two Buddhists. One is a neighbor of mine (relatively speaking), Hank Johnson, elected from Georgia's 4th congressional district (Dekalb/Gwinnett; he beat Cynthia McKinney). The other is Mazie Hirono, from Hawaii.With all the hullabaloo over Keith Ellison, these two almost slipped in unnoticed.Nice analysis...
Day 26: Falling Behind
Ug, I feel like a big lump on a log.... This week, due to Christmas (I know - excuses, excuses), has not been a very productive one. Actually I think I am going backwards. Last week I was supposed to run 15 miles, but I only ran 10. I skipped the long Sunday run, which was 5 miles, and instead opted to gorge myself with cookies and pie. WEEK FOUR MIDWEEK SPECIAL: 4 days down. 3 to go.Days so far this...
Sometimes You Just Can't Win!
So I thought it was bad enough that I had to deal with a huge blizzard on my way home for Christmas, but there was no thought in my mind that it would happen twice. Yes, twice. Yesterday I had a flight back to New Orleans from Reno via...oh yeah, Denver again! Where else? Upon calling United to reroute,...
This day in history: December 29
On this day in 2005, Air Force Brigadier General C.D. Alston reported that "insurgents in Iraq are showing little capacity to keep up numerous and persistent attacks." The U.S. State Department, in its release of the general's assessment, noted that with this improvement in the situation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced that "the United States would reduce the number of combat troops...
Presidential religions
Classes start in just over a week, so I'm starting to think about getting ready for them. One of my Spring classes is on the history of American religious life, and this semester I'm having my students read David L. Holmes's new book, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers.The innovative thing about Holmes's book is that he looks not only at the words of the Founding Fathers, but at their actions as well....
Died on Christmas Day
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, the hardest-working man in show business, died yesterday, December 25.I recently wrote about people who were born on Christmas Day. In honor of James Brown, here's a partial list of people who died on that day.Linus Yale, Jr. (d. 1868) perfected the cylinder lockKarel Čapek (d. 1938), Czech writer, popularized the word "robot" with his play R.U.R.Rossum's Universal...
More than y'all wanted to know about "y'all"
This morning I came across a posting on a site called Redneck's Revenge (don't ask--I have no recollection of how I got there) titled Merry Christmas, Ya'll. It consisted mainly of an illustration, a take-off of Norman Rockwell's famous "Freedom from Want" (click here for Rockwell's original), except the woman is smoking a cigarette, she's serving a bucket of KFC chicken rather than a turkey, and...
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! (NPR's weekly news quiz show) was especially funny this morning. In one segment, contestants have to identify a quotation from the week's news. One of the quotations was "We're not winning, we're not losing," and the answer, of course, was President Bush speaking on the war in Iraq. To this, panelist Roy Blount, Jr., one of the funniest writers in America today, said, "So...
Today in history: Dunder and Blixem?
On December 23, 1823, the Troy Sentinel (a New York newspaper) published an anonymous poem titled "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," better known today as "The Night before Christmas."Clement C. Moore is generally credited with the poem, but literary scholar Don Foster has pretty convincingly shown that the probable author was Henry Livingston, Jr., another New York poet.Whoever wrote it, the...
Today in history: America's most famous Christmas present
On December 22, 1864, General William T. Sherman completed his "March to the Sea" through Georgia and sent President Abraham Lincoln a telegram: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."Lincoln received the telegram on Christmas Eve. He was reportedly very pleased, having worried that he would get nothing but a t-shirt and a "Someone visited Savannah and all I got was this lousy...
Rudolph the Parasitically-Infected Reindeer
Just in case you were wondering why Rudolph's nose is red....an abstract from PubMedEpidemiology of reindeer parasites. Halvorsen O. Parasitol Today. 1986 Dec;2(12):334-9. Every Christmas we sing about Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer, but do we give much thought to why his nose is red? The general consensus is that Rudolf has caught a cold, but as far as I know no proper diagnosis has been made of...
Robert Barnwell Rhett
Today is the birthday of Robert Barnwell Rhett, born December 21, 1800, in Beaufort, South Carolina. Rhett was one of the most extreme "fire-eaters," a term for pro-secessionist southerners. He was upset when South Carolinians accepted the Compromise of 1850, which defused sectional tensions for a decade--he was ready to leave the Union then--and he spent the rest of the 1850s pushing for southern...
Stranded!
I am still here. Stuck in New Orleans. Not that I don't like this place, but I really had my heart set on going home today, hanging out with my buddy Kara and seeing the roommates at the house. I had a flight out for today at 2 pm. But I don't anymore. This is a classic example of "do as I say, not...
new office!
I'm in our new building in my new office! Woohoo!with a window and a huge desk! Woohoo!and about 2/3 of the bookshelves I need! Boohoo!But that's all right. It's all good.One thing, though....My first office here was a tiny room in the library. No drawers, a few shelves-- and I ended up with a box of stuff I could never unpack, so I slipped it under the desk. But that was OK, because I then moved...
City Lights
Current Location: Southport - Surfer’s Paradise, Gold Coast, AustraliaCurrent Position: 27º56.81' S 153º25.39' ENext Destination: Working our way down the coast to Sydney … maybe! I don’t think of myself as a city girl … actually anything but. And I know Chris is far from a hip city boy. No, we both seem to prefer the small towns, isolated villages, and “in the middle of nowhere” locations. So I was...
So Help Me God--update
A couple of days ago, I wrote on Judge Roy Moore's comments about Keith Ellison, the first Muslim to be elected to Congress. I pointed out that there is no contemporary evidence to support Moore's assertion that George Washington added "So help me God" to his oath of office, and in fact there's no evidence that any president did so until 1881 (Chester A. Arthur).Little did I know that Michael Newdow,...
Day 15: This is Not a Sunday Stroll Ladies!
Sunday is the day of the long run and we usually do it at Audubon Park, which is nice becuase there is a running trail. The trail is a two mile loop or you can extend it and go up and around to the river and it is about a four mile loop. It is really a beautiful run and it makes me wish that it wasn't winter; it gets so dark so early here now; I have to run inside on the weekdays, but every week we...
Time's Person of the Year
Time Magazine has just named you its "Person of the Year" for 2006. That's right, you.Congratulatio...
more carnivals than you can shake a stick at
Posted for your reading pleasure: the best of the recent blogosphere.Carnival of the Vanities # 221History Carnival #45Teaching Carnival ...
Roy Moore on Keith Ellison
A number of people, most prominently Dennis Prager, have assailed Keith Ellison, Dem.-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress. None of that has bothered me as much as the recent babble from Roy Moore, Alabama's "Ten Commandments judge." Where Prager simply disagreeed with Ellison's decision to be sworn in on a copy of the Qur'an, Moore goes a step further in a piece on WorldNetDaily:...
absent-minded professor strikes again
We have a new social science building, just completed, with wonderful new offices and classrooms. The big move begins next week. As folks pack up their offices, they've put books they don't want to move on a large table in a conference room, so students and colleagues can pick them up if they wish. I've put several stacks there myself.Well, yesterday I walked in with a small armload of books, and...
Dr. B on Michael Bérubé
Bitch Ph.D. has a nice review of Michael Bérubé's What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?As one reader remarked in the comments, "Michael is a truly rare thing, . . . an academo-star who is not full of himself, who listens to undergrads, who thoughtfully engages conservative students and spends a lot of time on teaching even as he cranks out acclaimed books." Dr. B.'s posting is a thoughtful appreciation...
Thoughts on grading
I got those bluebook blues, Lord, it's bluebooks all day long.Said I got those bluebook blues,Blue, blue, bluebooks all day long.Sometimes it seems like Nothin' but bluebooks from now on.[insert appropriate blues ri...
in the news
"Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport," announces the New York Times. Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky had asked that the airport install an eight-foot tall menorah to accompany the dozen or so plastic Christmas trees. Fearing a lawsuit, the airport removed the trees; when the rabbi said that he had no plans to sue, airport officials announced that the trees would go back...
Today in boll weevil history
On Dec. 11, 1919, the town of Enterprise, Alabama, dedicated a monument--to the boll weevil. A USDA photo is here, along with the following explanation: "After the boll weevil destroyed (1910-15) the area's cotton, diversified farming was begun. In gratitude for the resulting prosperity, the city erected a monument to the boll weevil in 1919."Fuller article, with a newer picture, here.Lyrics to...
Learning to Sail .... in Australia
Current Location: Gary's Anchorage, Sandy Straits, AustraliaCurrent Position: 25º37.79' S 152º58.38' ENext Destination: Working our way down the coast to SydneyAfter three years of cruising, you would think that we'd have 'it'down-pat by now. So, it continues to surprise me that just about everyplace we go, there is something new to learn -- some new 'thing' to haveto deal with.In Australia...
Finally, the truth is revealed
PZ Myers, over at Pharyngula, has linked to a website that will change our understanding of--well, of darned near everything: Welcome to the Reformation Online: The Information Superhighway to Heaven!! Despite its title, it's not strictly a religious website. Rather, it contains, in mind-numbing detail, the TRUE history of America, from earliest times to the present. Those of us who teach this subject...
apostrophes and semicolons
I'm going to add this to my syllabus next term: "If you don't know how to use 'em, don't."(Guess what I'm doing this afternoon.)Some of my students punctuate the way Bob Ross painted. "Let's put a friendly little semicolon in that sentence." "Maybe there's a happy little apostrophe that lives here!"They get commas right almost half the time. Periods, even more. Dashes are a problem for many, as they...
Day 4: What was I thinking?
Well I have only been training for half a week and already my knees are killing me! Is this going to get any better, or will it only get worse?I began training week by buying new running shoes. The ones I have now are not only old and ripped and dirty, but they have been through a lot - trekking in New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines as well as miles of spinning and a tiny bit of running. Unfortunately,...
Born on Christmas Day
The semester's almost over, and thoughts turn to the day that marks the birth of the man who brought truth and enlightenment to the world. I refer, of course, to Isaac Newton, born on December 25, 1642. According to an old superstition, "The child born on Christmas Day will have a special fortune" (perhaps to make up for getting cheated on birthday presents). This was certainly true of Newton....
Remembering Pearl Harbor--and FDR
One of my favorite blogs, and the first that I ever read regularly, is Orac's Respectful Insolence. Orac is a surgical oncologist who writes "on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)." Today Orac has a short piece on Pearl Harbor in which he reminds us to remember those who served in World War II.The day after the attack on Pearl...
the good ship Cauliflower
The 96th Carnival of Education is up at History Is Elementary, with over three dozen of the blogosphere's best postings on education from the past week--including one on the Cauliflower that will make you smile and one from yours tru...
Half Marathon Training Schedule
The Mardi Gras Marathon is on February 25th 2007, and I have decided to participate by making an attempt to run the half marathon (13.1 miles) that day. I started my training this week and it goes for 12 weeks..... I really do not enjoy running very much but I do enjoy a challenge, so we will see where...
Please, Mister Custer
Tomorrow is the birthday of George Armstrong Custer, born on December 5, 1839.Custer's notable career in the U.S. Army during the Civil War--he made brigadier general at the age of 23--was largely forgotten after an unfortunate leadership decision in May 1876.The Battle of Little Bighorn was-- ummm, memorialized in a novelty song by Larry Verne that inexplicably reached number one in 1960. A nervous...
another annoying "Top 100" list
The Atlantic Online is out with a list of the 100 "most influential figures in American history."Pretty much the usual suspects in the top five: Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, FDR, and Hamilton. But the farther down the list you go, the more questionable (or at least debatable) the choices become.Sam Walton (Mr. Wal-Mart) is number 72. Have 71 people shaped modern American life more than Walton?Frank...
Beauty in the Classroom
In a recent post, Andrew Leigh wrote about Rate My Prof and the general issue of student evaluations. In the comments, he referred to an article by Daniel Hamermesh and Amy Parker in Economics of Education Review. (Hamermesh is a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin; Parker was one of his undergraduate students.)In "Beauty in the Classroom: Instructors' Pulchritude and Putative...
George Brown Tindall, 1921-2006
I didn’t know George Tindall when I started graduate school at the University of North Carolina in 1980. As an undergraduate down the road at Duke, I had learned the names of some UNC historians, and in the years I was at Chapel Hill (I finally got the Ph.D. in 1988), I never got over my initial sense of awe for some of them. But when I met George Tindall, he was just a nice little man with white...
welcome to another history blog
An unimaginative title, I know. But there are so many history blogs (see the several hundred listed at Cliopatria's Blogroll, where you'll find one--or five or six--for every taste), and all the good names (like Millard Fillmore's Bathtub) were already taken.But that's all right. After all, by claiming this name, I can say that this isn't just another history blog; it's the another history bl...
Bundaberg & Nambour Area
10/28/06 - 11/03/06: Passage & ArrivalWhen we were looking for a weather window to Oz, Chris asked me what kind of conditions I would be happy with. I replied, "10-15 aft of the beam". "That's way too little [wind]" he told me, but I was talking apparent, and after our 'rough' year I wanted something tame ... something boring. Good & bad, we didn't quite get 10-15...
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