Textbooks With Bias
The New Eclectic Series: Elementary Geography is an 1896 geography textbook targeting young children, likely fourth to sixth grade. The textbook is chaptered with number paragraphs which describe facts (actual…
1896 British America
The 1896 textbook The New Eclectic Series: Elementary Geography includes a map of British America - Canada - as defined by the British North America Act, 1867 which created the…
Correction Respectfully Requested
This map is displayed about halfway through the documentary Chernobyl: Secrets, Lies and the Untold Truths. Can you spot anything interesting? The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in 1986, therefore the…
Religion In Schools
I was not brought within any religious faith and have maintained my atheism into adulthood, which is not unusual in my family: My parents were not religious during their marriage,…
The Athens Acropolis and Museum
My Wow, I'm in Athens! moment came quickly after my arrival. After my driver picked me up at the airport and drove me to the hotel, I checked in and…
Unavoidable
Seen on separate days just off Syntagama Square in Athens, Greece. For the non-religious - your author included - these religious zealots are way too active/visible on the streets of…
Tolerance …. to a point
A oft-seen bumper sticker - at least in Minnesota - advocates tolerance: political, religion, sexual, whatever. Totally get it, totally agree with it. It's what the The Youngbloods were singing…
Meandering Thoughts #53
From the EuroNews article Ranked: These are the best airports in Europe for punctuality and passenger experience: Though I don't know why the author referred to South Africa - which…
OPNSense Port Forwarding
I recently replaced my home router with a device running OPNSense. Very successful production deployment. I deployed a Navidrome server for streaming my personal music collection to Subsonic-supported clients. I…
OPNSense on Protectli Vault 1610
Overview A Cisco LRT224 Dual WAN router has been the cornerstone of my home network for over a decade: solid, easy to configure, above-average performance, VPN server, and other prosumer…