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"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
Sep
18th
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18th
In an 1892 game against its archrival, Yale, the Harvard football team was the first to deploy a “flying wedge,” based on Napoleon’s surprise concentrations of military force. In an editorial calling for the abolition of the play, The New York Times described it as “half a ton of bone and muscle coming into collision with a man weighing 160 or 170 pounds,” noting that surgeons often had to be called onto the field. Three years later, the continuing mayhem prompted the Harvard faculty to take the first of two votes to abolish football. Charles Eliot, the university’s president, brought up other concerns. “Deaths and injuries are not the strongest argument against football,” declared Eliot. “That cheating and brutality are profitable is the main evil.” Still, Harvard football persisted. In 1903, fervent alumni built Harvard Stadium with zero college funds. The team’s first paid head coach, Bill Reid, started in 1905 at nearly twice the average salary for a full professor.
Sep
11th
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11th
The London Riot Re-enactment Society will stage re-enactments of noted riots from London’s history, with some attempt at historical accuracy.
Sep
10th
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10th
Music is personal, no algorithm on earth can match that and provide a singular service to each and everyone of us.
Sep
4th
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4th
That sort of behaviour might be acceptable in the fleshpots of Flitwick or Luton but not Ampthill
Aug
25th
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25th
At 20, Linux is invisible, ubiquitous - CNN.com
The official operating system Mitchell’s Katrina Lounge. Want to get started? Go to Ubuntu.com.
Linux Turns 20 Today-;And Shut Up, Yes, It Still Matters
Mitchell’s Katrina Lounge celebrates Linux today. This gin is for you Linus!
Aug
20th
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Grumpy Old Man here. Yes, many are casually mentioning ”Ghost Town” by the Specials in response to the riots of 2011. But the question is this: When Brixton lit up back in the day, it produced this masterpiece. Will anything even remotely as brilliant be produced in response to Notting Hill? Answer: no. Get off of my lawn!
