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Washington, D.C. (day 2)
For this day I had in my head a general walking plan of how to see everything I wanted before I had to catch the next train at 7:30pm. Goal #1: White House do not enter obscured by trees The … Continue reading
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, travel
Tagged capitol, civil war, d.c., einstein, flags, library, lincoln, statues, vietnam, washington
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The Capitol Limited and D.C. (day 1)
After my afternoon jaunt in Chicago, I returned to Amtrak to catch the Capitol Limited to our nation’s capital (the name misleads—it doesn’t stop at the capitol). We left Chicago around 7pm to arrive in D.C. around 2pm the next … Continue reading
Posted in travel
Tagged american dream, d.c., food, illinois, lincoln, public transit, usps
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Fear, War, and the Bomb
Fear, War, and the Bomb: Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy (Great Britain, 1948) by P.M.S. Blackett (a former member of the British Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy) Notes and facts: strategic (independent of other military operations, far into … Continue reading
Posted in history/memory, literature, science/math
Tagged atomic, dictionary, lincoln, nationalism, russia
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