The collected volume Beyond the Border: Tensions across the Forty-Ninth Parallel in the Great Plains and Prairies (McGill-Queen's University Press) edited by Kyle Conway and Timothy Pasch is reviewed, as is Edward Garvey Miller's Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam (Harvard University Press) here. [read post]

Bilinsky, Wally Bock, Kathleen Bradley, Pawel Brodzinski, Paul Brown, Anita Bruzzese, Duncan Bucknell, Jim Bullock, BOB COFFEY, Shawn Callahan, Sean Campbell, Leading Change, James Cherkoff, Andrew Chiu, Alison Clayton-Smith, John Corr, Stuart Cross, Dan, Daniel, Mike DeWitt, John Dillard, George Dinwiddie, Dominique, Jim Donovan, Stephen Downes, Francis Egenias, Heidi Ehlers, Ron Evans, David Ewing, Brad Farris, 360 Degree Feedback, Steve Ferrara, Ken Flowers, Jordan Furlong, Galba Bright At Tune… [read post]

Collected by wikipedia Antiquity Note: Many of these stories are likely to be apocryphal (uncertain authenticity) * 456 BC: Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. [read post]