

https://bsky.app/profile/radosh.bsky.social/post/3luxpjmhb4k2l
It is a sobering thought that one of his NYT obituary writers died two years ago.


https://bsky.app/profile/radosh.bsky.social/post/3luxpjmhb4k2l
It is a sobering thought that one of his NYT obituary writers died two years ago.


Who’s gonna tell him?
The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.
I could be wrong, but my impression is that there is less politics and less bias involved in defining words and and providing pronunciations and etymologies then there is an articles about history and politics and people.
I especially like Wiktionary from the point of view of exploring cognates between languages and etymologies that cross language boundaries, in a big dictionary that covers many languages all at once.


This is the underlying article written by Caroline Giuliani: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/caroline-giuliani-trump-kamala-harris


Sea level?


It once worked magically for me to watch television.
Mamdani immediately rescinded all of Adams’ executive orders made after Adams’ indictment. I wish this article clarified if this EO was part of that batch.
Edit: It was: https://bsky.app/profile/hunterw.bsky.social/post/3mbhyhk2egc2e