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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Pictures of the Bridge Disaster
Irish Up North
On a previous visit to northern Minnesota I had noticed a building with a sign as Gaeilge (“in Irish”) in Cloquet. I saw it again as I drove home from Deer River Sunday evening. It is the Cailín Deas (“pretty girl”) hair salon. I told my fellow Irish students about this in class last night, as Gaeilge, and everybody was pleased.
Deer River notes
More Deer River Prep
Getting Ready for Deer River
The Morning After
As mia_mcdavid wrote, we are OK.
The bus I take to work had not been using the 35W Bridge across the Mississippi, so I was able to ride it to work downtown as I have been doing. It was slower than it had been: There was a lot more traffic on Central Avenue and the 3rd Ave. bridge than before, as you might expect with one of the other major bridges gone. Looking out the bus window I could see the cars were bumper-to-bumper. I could only see one with more than a single occupant. Sigh….
A few yards away from my cubicle here I can look out the window and see the broken bridge in the distance.
Scots in the Thirty Years War
From 400-year-old Scots ready to reveal their battle secrets:
“A MASS grave of soldiers, including Scots, slaughtered during Europe’s bloody Thirty Years War is yielding up valuable information on how they had lived.”
Pillaging, Vandalism, Extortion….and Enjoying the Sermons
Letter from Nehemiah Wharton, a sergeant in the Army of Parliament, August 1642.
This is from early in the English Civil War. Soldiers in the 30 Years War (still going on) generally behaved worse.
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