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After over 8 weeks of silence, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is talking again. Ingenuity Perseverance NASA/JPL-Caltech Ingenuity weighs just 4 pounds and moves thanks to rotors 4 feet long from…
Only a Trace Memory
On Sunday, I was watching Aerial America: Indiana while doing my physical therapy exercises. The show spent time retelling the efforts of Tecumuseh. Legend claims that famous warrior and dynamic orator Tecumseh began…
Topaz
“A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not.” -Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, April 15, 1943 The internment of Americans of Japanese…
Mad Marge
In my book, Rain Dodging, I introduce you to a handful of early feminist warriors. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, born 1623, died suddenly at only age 50, the year Mary of…
How Dare She!
In my book, Rain Dodging, I introduce you to a handful of early feminist warriors. Here’s one: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle* Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, born 1623, died…
The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Destiny
Since the coronation of Charles III is tomorrow, here is an edited repost: Commissioned in 1296, the Coronation Chair in St George’s Chapel at Westminster Abbey is one of the…
Children’s Voices
"The ethereal sound of children’s voices . . . whose innocent, pure sonorities set them apart from human experience." On March 17, 19 and 20, 1966, I was one of…
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”*
Built in 1874 on the site reserved for an opera house, the Old Cincinnati Library was a thing of wonder. With five levels of cast iron shelving, a fabulous foyer,…
The Coronation Chair and the Case of the Stolen Stone
Reading up on Mary's crown for my last piece, I came across St. Edward's Coronation Chair. Commissioned in 1296, the Coronation Chair in St George’s Chapel at Westminster Abbey is…
“My Crown is in my Heart, Not on my Head.”
“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content, A Crown it is,…