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The Treaty of Versailles and Germany

2025-08-11Austria, Europe, France, Germany, history, learnings, personal, Russia, United Kingdom

The Treaty of Versailles held Germany (a.k.a Germany Empire), and Germany alone, responsible for World War I: not Serbia who planned the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand; not the Austrian-Hungarian Empire…

Cut-and-Paste Gone Awry

2025-08-11baseball, locations, Missouri, North America, personal, sports, United States

....because who the fuck is Ryan?!?

Profits Over Patriotism

2025-08-10history, learnings, personal

Thomas J. Watson, president of IBM, made a bold claim in an editorial published before the United States entered World War II: We are either internationalists or isolationists, and I…

Unintentional Car Repair

2025-08-10family, family history, North America, personal, United States

This article reminded me of a story my grandmother told me. My grandmother's commute to New York City required a Metro-North train from the Green Farms Station in Westport, CT…

Rick Camp Game

2025-07-31baseball, funny, personal, sports

The 1984 game where the Cubs' Ryne Sandberg hit two game-tying home runs off of Bruce Sutter before the Cubs won it in the 11th has been oft-mentioned since Sandberg's…

Meandering Thoughts #54

2025-07-29meandering, music

[Chorus 2]Oh, I love you more today than yesterdayBut not as much as tomorrowI love you more today than yesterdayBut only half as much as tomorrow At least to me,…

Cat Ownership

2025-07-29family, personal

The phrase Dogs have owners; cats have staff most definitely applies to Lojo. Today he claimed the towel basket as his and proceeded to have a mid-morning to mid-afternoon slumber,…

Hawks in Wisconsin?

2025-07-28college, locations, North America, sports, travel, United States, Wisconsin

My wife and I spent a Sunday afternoon driving through western Wisconsin and ran across an ode to Hawkeyes in Barron. With the historical rivalry, animosity and even hatred between…

Random Learnings #59

2025-07-28baseball, learnings, personal, sports

From Wikipedia: [Ron] LeFlore also struck out frequently, finishing in the top ten in his league in strikeouts five times (and second in the American League in 1975 with 139).…

Hurtigruten Excursion #1: Ålesund

2025-07-26Europe, history, locations, museum, Norway, travel

The first excursion selected for our northbound Hurtigruten Coastal Express was the Art Nouveau Walk in Ålesund, Norway. Ålesund is known for the art nouveau architecture during the town's reconstruction…