Harry Lee Williams was born in August 1885 in Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana. The son of Thornton Robert Williams and Ida May Adams, Harry was raised in...
There is a special joy in designing something new that still feels old. A coat of arms has this property: rooted in tradition, yet reinterpreted through the choices of its...
Every four years, Americans are reminded that they do not elect the president directly. They vote for electors, members of something called the Electoral College, who cast the real...
Tartans carry the weight of tradition. They are imagined as ancient patterns, clan-bound, Highland-tested, and restricted to those who can trace their ancestry back to some moor or glen. The...
The United States Postal Service is one of the most quietly extraordinary systems in modern life. It is not magical or divine. It works because hundreds of thousands of...
Exploratory data analysis often faces challenges due to outliers and skewed distributions, which can distort underlying patterns. Many conventional statistical methods depend on means, making them highly sensitive to extreme...
Among the half-remembered titles of the medieval world, few are more peculiar than the vidame. A word no longer in currency, even among most students of nobility, the vidame occupied...
Recently, I encountered a comment that was just dead wrong:
If 100% of people got a vaccine, people would still get whatever they were vaccinated for. If they were...
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