They tend to linger, like it's a sit-down restaurant!

Trick picture showing a woman wearing a Gibson-girl up-do sitting at a dressing table, looking in her mirror. The whole image forms that of a skull. All is Vanity, Charles Allan Gilbert, 1892

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A tête de mort, "All is Vanity," by Charles Allan Gilbert, 1892.
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We call 'em chickadees here in Canada, where they exhibit the same behaviour - I was just observing one looking for hidden bugs along my roofline.

Oh yeah, probably that influence too.

While officially “left,” I constantly hear people here in central Canada use the “loot” pronunciation. The effect of US media, I assume, which is pervasive.

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chr...

Looks like the Mail-Star (two newspapers that merged at some point).

Certainly looks like it.

To supplement the info in the article, one could add that he was born in Brockville, but moved to Cornwall when he was six months old. He spent all of his childhood in Cornwall.

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

I have never seen the train thing!

So odd. I use both those sites occasionally (the CWGC more than TNA) and have never encountered the problem you describe. I'm in Canada. Would that make a difference?

War is Peace

As a recent solo diner in London, I got simply rejected from getting a table at one restaurant…

"As a history teacher," he just lost all credibility he had in that profession.

My latest in Beyond.

Percentages escape him.

Were there other entries that have possible additions to them? Like someone checking something and adding notations to that effect?

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The Allure of Archival Research.

We’re all AI bots.

And the whole world suffers from those price increases.

I wonder how they managed going downhill. Reverse the position of the horses to prevent the heavy cannon from careening down the hill?

'St. Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London, England' (1885) by John Atkinson Grimshaw

(Private collection)

With all due respect to basket weavers, I'm just glad he didn't cite History as one of his so-called pointless disciplines to pursue!

C.P. Stacey's "The Canadian Army 1939-1945" has maps like this. Particularly useful for military history!

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

Ah, nuts. I forgot they played so early (Canadian time). Another boneheaded play by Romero?

As a Canadian, I cannot advocate travel to the US anytime soon.

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