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30 Apr 2023, 6:08 am
 Social scientist William Baillie Hamilton notes that Captain James Cook and his assistant Michael Lane, who mapped Newfoundland in the 1760s, often displayed a sense of humour in the place names they chose, and were not above selecting names that might "offend over-sensitive" readers....The OED entry for the word "dildo" says the origin is unknown and finds its oldest use as an interjection — as syllables sung rhythmically (similar to… [read post]
26 May 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Blight reviews James Oakes’s The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (NYRB).ICYMI:  “What the Constitution Means to” Joanna Grisinger and Kate Masur (Northwestern Now). [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 9:48 am by Bill
As Bill James once said:The Houston Astros, I have decided, must be an acquired taste. [read post]
19 Aug 2018, 6:09 am by Brooke
James Chappell's Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church is reviewed at the Boston Review.In The Washington Post is a review of Korea: Where the American Century Began by Michael Pemboke.At Public Books is a review of the essays collected in Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism. [read post]
18 Jan 2014, 3:40 am
Merpel is a greatfan of HawaiiToday marks not just the anniversary of the first discovery by a European of one of the places this Kat has always dreamed to visit, ie the Hawaiian Islands [James Cook did so in 1778, and named them Sandwich Islands in honour of the Earl of Sandwich - this one, not this one], but also the second anniversary of the protests against two laws proposed in the US Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). [read post]
4 Dec 2016, 11:47 am by Smita Ghosh
Susan Dunn reviews two books about a more famous first lady--Blanche Wiesen Cook’s Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 3: The War Years and After, 1939–1962, and Susan Quinn’s Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady). [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 8:06 pm by Matt House
 Every Fall I look forward to eating pecan pie, and I can cook a pretty good one using a recipe and method that I read about in Southern Living magazine many years ago. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 8:30 am by azatty
Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government at the UA James E. [read post]
12 May 2011, 6:19 am by David Oscar Markus
G; Grodin, James; Manzi, James A.; Hamilton, John; Horan, John; Lord Jr., John S. [read post]
3 Aug 2009, 6:48 pm
  James "Bus" Cook said that Mechelle McNair (the widow) is not trying to exclude the two older children, but didn't list them because she didn't have proof they were actually his kids. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:00 am by Steve Baird
Apparently Suk, when the surname meaning is intended, sounds like "cook" or "book," not "pluck" or "stuck. [read post]
28 May 2012, 2:59 am
James and Cookson are bringing salads -- Barley-Is-Boss Salad and Tortellini Pasta Salad. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 9:58 pm
Cook (7 NY3d 131) and held that "there is no view of the evidence to support a conclusion that the result of defendant's intentional act of punching Lang in the face 'accidentally or negligently' caused Lang's alleged injuries[.] [read post]