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Random Learnings #43

2024-07-19Posted inEurope, Germany, history, learnings, personal
Lebensraum is often attributed to Hitler and the Nazis as a component of Germany's imperial and racist visions towards the east, and contributed to the Holocaust as killing the Jews…
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Old-School Advertising

2024-07-07Posted inhistory, locations, museum, Pennsylania, railroad, travel, United States
The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum displays era-appropriate advertising in their restored trolleys. Besides providing a real feel to what the passengers saw at the time, it also shows how society has…
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Random Learnings #40

2024-07-02Posted inEurope, Germany, history, learnings, personal
The Carnegie Museum of Art is currently exhibiting the works of the German artist Beate Kuhn. I initially read a contemporary biography in German: despite my sehr schlecht school-boy Germany,…
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Random Learnings #39

2024-06-28Posted inEurope, Germany, history, learnings, personal
Karl Marx popularized - but did not create - the slogan From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs that is most often associated with communism.…
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The Museum of Jade

2024-06-27Posted inCentral America, Costa Rica, history, locations, museum, travel
In Spanish Museo del Jade, its more formal Museo del Jade y de la Cultura Precolombina (Museum of Jade and Pre-Columbian Culture) better describes its mission. Even my Costa Rican…
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Random Learnings #38

2024-06-25Posted inhistory, Iowa, learnings, personal, United States
My sister-in-law graduated from Western Dubuque High School oh-so-many years ago, and for no good reason I decided to deep-dive and learn more about it. Boy, it was definitely a…
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National Museum of Costa Rica

2024-06-25Posted inCentral America, Costa Rica, history, locations, museum, travel
Plaque commemorating the founding of the museum The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, is, as you would rightly expect, is the national museum of Costa Rica located in the capital San…
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World War I Era Maps

2024-06-23Posted inAustria, Belgium, Denmark, Europe, Germany, history, Italy, learnings, Lithuania, personal, Poland, Romania, Russia
My interest in maps - especially older maps - has grown over the past few years, and on a Monday in late February I spent a few hours in the…
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Random Learnings #36

2024-06-18Posted inGeorgia, history, learnings, locations, personal, United States
A red door is very meaningful in Savannah, Georgia: It may have started in Scotland, but perhaps nowhere else in the world today do you see the symbolism of a…
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Meandering Thoughts #28

2024-06-04Posted inCentral America, Costa Rica, history, locations, meandering
It's inevitable that plane travel includes overhearing neighboring conversations how hard you try to ignore them....at least until you switch on your noise canceling headphones! Most are mundane, innocuous, unimportant,…
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