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Random Learnings #12 FOLLOWUP

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-26baseball, California, history, learnings, sports, United States

Original post: https://scottsosna.com/2023/09/26/random-learnings-12/ According to this nytimes.com article, (paywall, a different free version here) a bill may be introduced in California's state assembly to give reparations to families of people…

Random Learnings #26

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-19basketball, learnings, sports

In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, the first two rounds are hosted by top-four regional seeds. Though not guaranteed, the home court advantage does increase teams' chances of making it…

Random Learnings #25

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-17history, learnings, United States

I recently finished reading Ken Follett's Edge of Eternity, Book Three of The Century Trilogy - I read the first two books, Fall of Giants and Winter of the World,…

Random Learnings #24

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-03learnings, vocbulary

I'm currently reading War and Peace in Soviet Diplomacy by T. A. (Timothy Andrew) Taracouzio, which discusses the Soviet Union's diplomatic efforts to survive from its founding in 1917 through…

Random Learnings #23

By Scott Sosna 2024-02-18history, learnings

From the review of the book Socialism vs Capitalism by Boris L. Brasol in the New York Times, Sunday, November 21, 1920: ...Mr. Brasol wrote under fear that Bolshevism was…

Random Learnings #22

By Scott Sosna 2024-02-11learnings, vocbulary

I ran into the word affray while reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Thirteen Edition, had never heard of the term and had no idea what it meant.... archaic: FRAY, BRAWL chiefly…

Random Learnings #21

By Scott Sosna 2024-02-11Europe, learnings

From The Encyclopedia Britannica, Thirteenth Edition (1926), Volume 2: Effects of the War Eastern Europe - The War completely changed the face of the Jewish world. In the Russian Empire…

Random Learnings #20

By Scott Sosna 2024-02-10Georgia, learnings, travel, United States

From The Encyclopedia Britannica, Thirteenth Edition (1926), Volume 2: ... When Congress made an investigation in Oct. 1921, it found that the Klan had funds enough to purchase an Imperial…

Random Learnings #19

By Scott Sosna 2024-02-04Austria, learnings

From the June 1951 National Geographic, Occupied Austria, Outpost of Democracy. Ranked as a liberated nation, not a former enemy, Austria has its own Federal Government and exchanges diplomats with…

Random Learnings #18

By Scott Sosna 2024-01-15family, family history, learnings

My maternal grandfather, Carl Henke, died when I was very young; not sure when, but too young to remember him. I heard and learned little about him, other than he…