July 2011
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nickrecommends asked: The 555 5th Avenue Barnes & Noble had a big pile of them the other day, FYI.
kthread asked: Hi, it's very difficult to locate a copy of the most recent issue (congrats!)
How can one procure a LQ Food issue?
How can one procure a LQ Food issue?
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“Edible: good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a...”
– Ambrose Bierce, c. 1900
“Of reading and writing, they learned only enough to serve their turn; all the...”
– Plutarch, on the raising of Spartan children. Anyone read that NYT article about how playgrounds have become too safe? Park Slope could really learn from Sparta.
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“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am...”
– Sydney Smith, 1855. It’s tea time, everybody. Iced tea time.
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mental_floss on tumblr: There Is Such a Thing as a... →
mentalflossr:
When Sally Ride made her first space flight in 1983, she was both the first American woman and the youngest American to make the journey to the final frontier. Both of those distinctions show just how qualified and devoted Ride was, but they also opened her up to a slew of absurd questions…
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“Some suppose flying to be now invented…It has been even fancied that in...”
– Benjamin Franklin, writing about the first balloon flight by the Mongolfier brothers in 1783. We do like to think of Franklin way up in the sky, sitting in an elbow chair, tied to a balloon.
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Rations During the American Revoloution
1 lb. beef, or 3/4 lb. pork, or 1 lb. salt fish, per day; 1 lb. bread or flour, per day; 3 pints of peas or beans per week, or vegetable equivalent; 1 half pint of rice, one pint of Indian meal, per man, per week; 1 quart of spruce beer or cider per man per day, or nine gallons of molasses, per company of 100 men per week; 3 lbs. of candles to 100 men per week, for guards; 24...
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“Of the preamble, I have taken little or no notice.”
– From the unexpectedly sassy British response to the Declaration of Independence. Boy, those guys were annoyed with us. (via Byliner)
