And drops a piece of gold in the box hanging from his neck.
THE YEAR THAT BLOG FORGOT IS: 1899.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Queen Victoria pats a terrier.
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If only I could have blogged in the century before blogging! I will imperfectly satisfy my longing by using a random number generator to pick the year and the NYT archive to scan the news stories for today's date in that year.
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My father took this picture of me in about 1968:
It's a year that made a big impression on me, but it's just one of the 100 years I'm blogging here, on a blog devoted to the years before blogging.
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- I'm a hardcore, old-style blogger — writing daily for 17 years straight about the way things look from Madison, Wisconsin. I was a law professor for 33 years, but those days are over.
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- The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated today.
- "21-INCH WAIST PASSES.; Boston Corset Maker Says W...
- "Should he be introduced as a Neanderthal man, a b...
- "Mr. Clark's quintet... swirl their hair around th...
- "Unknown Man Commits Suicide."
- ''This Administration has been philosophically opp...
- "There is little use in trying to beautify Central...
- "Will no one weep for tulips?"
- "Jews in Berlin were warned today that the 'ghetto...
- "President Reagan and the lawyers he has put in ch...
- 1. "Carpers, critics and killjoys" and 2. "reactio...
- "Racial minorities cannot be racist in the U.S.A."...
- "The ideal thing is to have a home near a small ci...
- "More news of the anti-Jewish campaign in Poland..."
- "Record Bag of Japanese Is Captured by Chinese."
- Now that the curfews are lifting and people are go...
- Don't backslide into "bourgeois democracy."
- "Rabblerousers and hatemongers, members of the New...
- It is not an outside enemy that will destroy Ameri...
- "France is not a dominion of the United States."
- "Vichy Forecasts Nazi Pact in Week... Form to Stre...
- Will American youth unite with "the entire democra...
- The White House announcer calls him "Justice Breyer."
- "Trust me, it works" — it's Apple's new touchpad.
- What are we to do about wealth? Teddy Roosevelt sa...
- Queen Victoria pats a terrier.
- "I am not an advocate of the use of the bicycle am...
- "Max Conrad, 47-year-old songwriter and father of ...
- New York grieves for Makoko, the gorilla who drown...
- "They're all from Harvard, Yale, or Columbia. Ship...
- Linda LeClair is not hip. She's a housewife. And s...
- Bobby Kennedy may have won the Indiana primary, bu...
- The U.S. is accused of "monstrous crimes" as the p...
- "Berlin Feels a Thrill of the Old Prussian Spirit ...
- Speaking of snakes.
- The grand explorer W.M. McGovern will "captivate t...
- If women are competent to be jurors, is it because...
- 20 years after Brown v. Board of Education and wha...
- Camisoles!
- "Ethically they show themselves to be cynical and ...
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bad link
Oh, that's so annoying! I thought I had a good link.
I've fixed it... looks ugly but is readable.
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