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May 24, 2017 (May 23, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Soviet conspiracy unveiled!

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Comrades, The Press has asked me, The Bolshevik, to pause from my advice column to fill in with the popular Backlist Bop feature. And good timing it is, for today […]

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May 17, 2017 (May 16, 2017)

Backlist Bop: An earthmoving industry

american history Illinois / regional

Born in Vermont, made in America, John Deere helped humans move enough earth to impress even Ruaumoko, the Maori god of earthquakes. Deere’s death on May 17, 1886 marked the […]

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May 2, 2017 (May 2, 2017)

Backlist Bop: May Berenbaum on what’s the buzz

natural history

It’s spring, and the insects have returned in force. Though, unless you live in Antarctica, it’s doubtful you go a day without seeing an arthropod even in winter. These creatures […]

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April 20, 2017 (April 19, 2017)

Backlist Bop: The French Connection

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Today marks the birthday of Daniel Chester French, in his day one of America’s most popular sculptors. The famed often seem to have known the famed, and French was no […]

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April 6, 2017 (April 4, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Lifters and jaffas and twin killings and homers

sports history

I once tried to explain baseball to a British friend while we watched a Cubs game. By the sixth inning, after going aground on the dropped third strike and tagging […]

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