So, looking ahead to a rather cool -6F (-21C) tonight here in western #Massachusetts.
For a change, a real winter: cold + some snow
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Speaking of #DOGE, here's a little historical joke I have on my office door
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the only kind of #DOGE that should be involved in government
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As a historian of modern Germany preparing to teach a #Holocaust course at 2 institutions this term, I honestly feel no need to weigh in on the interminable (can only 1 day have passed?) debate about the #Musk #Nazi salute thing. And I wish others felt the same way.
@histodons @worldwarshistory
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Uncertain times ahead. The '80s were no picnic, either. The Germans pondered & fretted about right-wing resurgence, nuclear war, & dying forests. Music--from the impassioned to the satirical or just silly--helped
BAP - Kristallnaach 1982 with English Subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1EkIU9cpxw
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Uncertain times ahead. The '80s were no picnic, either. The Germans pondered & fretted about right-wing resurgence, nuclear war, & dying forests. Music--from the impassioned to the satirical or just silly--helped
Geier Sturzflug - Besuchen Sie Europa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIPfyDKqyH8
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Uncertain times ahead. The '80s were no picnic, either. The Germans pondered & fretted (as is their wont) about right-wing resurgence, nuclear war, and dying forests. Music--from the impassioned to the satirical or just silly--helped
Herne 3 - Wofür
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JQNPF5aC3A
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the academic existence, seen today in a random example
author writes important article
25 years later "NN at NN assigned it to her seminar & has asked me to speak to the class. I needed to reread it (after decades of not doing so), & discovered that I did not myself have a copy"
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So, a day of transitions. College president announced his resignation.I'm sure he felt the date was symbolically significant🙄
https://www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshire-college-president-ed-wingenbach-step-down-june#:~:text=Hampshire%20College%20President%20Ed%20Wingenbach%20has%20announced%20that%20he%20will,after%20six%20years%20in%20office.
Oddly enough, this encomium omits the string of failures that alienated all constituencies ¯_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.gazettenet.com/Guest-column-Hampshire-College-56125388
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best culinary advice of the day:
"Because hot oil can cause severe injuries, make this dish in the kitchen a few times before you are confident you can do it without accidentally frying a guest."
Cantonese-Style Steamed Fish Recipe
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024660-cantonese-style-steamed-fish?campaign_id=58&emc=edit_ck_20250119&instance_id=145056&nl=cooking®i_id=10184009&segment_id=188676&user_id=f496eccf27e473bef8d28351750886d4
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Oops, forgot to complete series. National Gallery closed yesterday & will be again tomorrow, so: grateful we got to visit earlier this month. Always so encouraging to see diverse #art-loving crowds: whether at Impressionist show (long waits; closed today!) or for the old standbys
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We were equally impressed and gratified to see the long line of people waiting for admission to the Library of Congress and its exhibitions
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Delighted to visit the National Museum of African American History & see such a large & attentive crowd. Spent a whole afternoon just in the 3 floors of core historical exhibits, had to be shooed out by the guards. Serious scholars can close down both a bar and a museum
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Botanical displays involving model railroad sets & representations of major buildings & monuments are a thing at the holiday season in Washington DC National Botanic Garden (+ in New York, I am told), so these as well as the greenhouses drew a good crowd on a cold rainy day
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Glad I was able to visit our National Gallery 2 weekends ago vs. having to contend with closure this time. One of the most encouraging things about the recent visit to DC was the size and enthusiasm of the crowds in museums and other cultural sites
Folger Shakespeare Library
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National Gallery of Art to Host Trump-Vance Fundraising Dinner Ahead of Inauguration
[#]Museum explains: official requests from administrations (e.g. Clinton 1993) are an exception to no-private-events policy. “This is not a political endorsement”
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/national-gallery-of-art-trump-vance-dinner-inauguration-2599566
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Nothing against Poe + Baltimore! Two weekends ago, I was pleased to sit in a Maryland bar & watch Baltimore beat Pittsburgh to earn a place in the #football playoffs
Who could dislike a team called The Ravens with mascots named Edgar, Allan, & Poe?
https://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/library/news/ravens.asp#:~:text=Now%20Baltimore%20fans%20join%20the,%2C%20they%20hope%2C%20forever%20more.
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Tho born in #Boston OTD 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was not fond of the place. Nonetheless, it honored him with a sculpture by Stefanie Rocknack in 2014
Poe Statue Unveiled in Boston
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2014/10/06/edgar-allan-poe-comes-back-boston/
Edgar Allan Poe’s Feud With Boston? Nevermore
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/us/edgar-allan-poes-feud-with-boston-nevermore.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU4.kYN7.D35tAhoiqhOd&smid=url-share
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It was in Boston that Poe (born there OTD 1809) anonymously published what has become the rarest of his works: the 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems. By a Bostonian
https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/taop.htm
indeed, it is called "the Rarest Book in American Literature"
https://lithub.com/in-search-of-the-rarest-book-in-american-literature-edgar-allan-poes-tamerlane/
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19 January 1809: birth of Edgar Allan #Poe in Boston.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-19?loclr=eatod#edgar-allan-poe
Yes, #Boston, #Massachusetts: although he is in the common mind of course more associated with Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York
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