Tag Archives: USA

1955: Septima Poinsette Clark

Posted on February 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

After being fired from her job as a teacher for refusing to renounce her membership in the NAACP, Septima Clark became the Director of Education at the famous Highlander Center in Tennessee—a training school for civil rights activists and trade … Continue reading →

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2017: Be a Resilient Cooperator

Posted on February 1, 2018 by corvusfugit

Do human beings act purely out of self-interest? The Prisoners’ Dilemma is a classic puzzle designed to test and explore this question: Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no … Continue reading →

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1899: Sunrise

Posted on January 31, 2018 by corvusfugit

Warren Sheppard: Sunrise, Bay of Fundy; I made up the date.

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1860: Disaster

Posted on January 30, 2018 by corvusfugit

William Ruthven Wheeler: Great Lakes Marine Disaster (c. 1860)

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1893: Lake

Posted on January 29, 2018 by corvusfugit

William Trost Richards: Second Strait, Lake Placid (1893)

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1906: The Union Butcher Shop

Posted on January 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

The Union Butcher Shop. A non-union man entered a butcher’s shop in which was conspicuously displayed the card of the meat cutter’s union. The following dialogue ensued: Mr. Non-Union—I see by that card you run a union shop. Butcher—Yes, sir; … Continue reading →

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1953: A Piece of String

Posted on January 28, 2018 by corvusfugit

The most celebrated of all British practical jokers was William Horace De Vere Cole…He was a citizen of substance and had a large house in a fashionable section of London. One day he was hanging some paintings in his home … Continue reading →

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1945: The Book of Alfred Kantor

Posted on January 27, 2018 by corvusfugit

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom HaShoah Alfred Kantor was 22 when he was sent to Theresienstadt, the ”model ghetto” 40 miles north of Prague that the Nazis had created for Czech Jews. He was then sent to Auschwitz and, later, … Continue reading →

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1915: Sugar Factory

Posted on January 26, 2018 by corvusfugit

Daniel Putnam Brinley: Hudson River View (Sugar Factory at Yonkers) (1915)

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1950: Maine

Posted on January 22, 2018 by corvusfugit

Rockwell Kent: Maine Headland, Evening (c. 1950)

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