Orts #991
- the remarkable Snowball -
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/what-snowball-dancing-parrot-tells-us-about-dance/593428/
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- an architect-guided virtual tour of the Brooklyn Bridge and surrounding neighborhoods -
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/design/brooklyn-bridge-virtual-tour-virus.html
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For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the fishing hawk—and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
— Benjamin Franklin
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- Locusts in East Africa - spectacular photos -
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/photos-worst-locust-swarms-decades-hit-east-africa/605653/
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Let the floor go unswept if necessary; simplify your meals; but make time for reading, studying and thinking.
-- a farm woman from Minnesota, in a letter to The Farmer’s Wife magazine, in the 1930s
https://daily.jstor.org/how-reading-got-farm-women-through-the-depression/