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those who do not know are doomed to repeat etc, besides it’s fascinating

Juneteenth

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Juneteenth is celebrated every 19 June. Happy Juneteenth to all our bloggy friends celebrating today (ish allowing for time differences).

Farewell to the Space Shuttle

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Just watched Endeavour‘s last landing at the Kennedy Space Center. For a little while, you can still see it sitting on the runway going through its final postflight checks, via this livestream.

Pedant’s Corner: Dear BBC Knowledge Channel,

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Your earlier show “A Victorian Farm” could have been arguably marketed as “the dawn of the Industrial Age”, but it was well past noon by Edward’s time. Why does your marketing department have to embarrass all those poor historians like this?

Vale Bob Gould, Bookseller Extraordinaire

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If you imagine the stereotypical, small, dusty secondhand bookshop, enlarge it substantially and then imbue this cavern with many of the bigger-on-the-inside properties of the TARDIS as if designed by Escher you might start to get a feel for how those shops worked.