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The Pioneer Woman: Best Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries Recipe

We harvested a lot of sweet potatoes last fall and tried this easy approach to fixing them. Includes a simple but really tasty honey mustard recipe.

The Pioneer Woman: Mulled Apple Cider Recipe

This was really lovely. It includes maple syrup, cinnamon sticks, allspice berries, ground cloves, orange peel, and lemon peel. (This variation adds bourbon to the mix.)

Throngs of himself | Hub | Paul Linebarger / Cordwainer Smith

The fascinating story of psychological warfare expert and academic Paul Linebarger, who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith. His fiction anticipates a perfect future that must be made imperfect in order to reclaim true humanity. I just read and recommend "Scanners Live in Vain," the first short story published as Cordwainer Smith.

In 2013, Geoffrey Reiter at Christ and Pop Culture wrote on the occasion of Cordwainer Smith's centenary.

Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Process | National Archives

Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states in 1972 with a seven-year deadline for ratification. The Department of Justice concluded in 2020 and in 2020 that Congress no longer has a role to play in the constitutional amendment ratification process once a resolution has been sent to the states; even the three-year extension was invalid.

Flying with Vestibular Migraine - Best Tips for Vertigo and Dizziness - The Dizzy Cook

Most stable places to sit on the plane, helps for pressure changes, nausea, and annoying smells, and many other travel tips that might be useful even if you don't suffer from vestibular migraines.

Tin Pan Alley Composer and lyricist Biographies

Biographical sketches of the men and women who built the Great American Songbook. Not merely the Tin Pan Alley songwriters, but earlier writers like Francis Scott Key and Stephen Foster as well.

Manuscripts - Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts

A searchable comprehensive database of New Testament manuscripts, with details of each and links to images.

London Calling : Jimmy Perry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A radio sitcom written by Jimmy Perry, co-creator of Dad's Army and Hi-de-Hi, about the early days of the BBC, starring Jimmy Perry, Graham Crowden (Waiting for God), Bill Pertwee (Round the Horne, Dad's Army), Roy Hudd (The Crowned Hudds), and Jeffrey Holland (Hi-de-Hi).

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

A collection of nearly 1500 episodes of Alistair Cooke's weekly commentaries for the BBC on life in America. The series ran from 1946 to 2004, "the longest-running speech radio programme hosted by one individual." A two-hour program offers highlights from his 1970s broadcasts, a tumultuous period in American history.

918 BBS List

The prehistory of online communication in Tulsa. Before high-speed internet, before dial-up internet, there were modems and bulletin board services (BBSes), and you'd dial into someone else's computer to exchange files, play games, and chat. The era ran from 1981 to 2004. Black Gold BBS was one of the biggest and longest lasting. Wayne's World was one of the last. Mike Lester's GalaxyStar evolved into an Internet Service Provider. Some great memories embedded in with this list of northeastern Oklahoma BBSes.