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2026-04-18T14:54:13Z

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2 baby eagles at the Shepherdstown eaglecam

2026-04-04T15:59:51Z

Follow along until (crossed fingers) fledging: https://www.outdoorchannel.com/live/eaglecam
(Camera 3's the best right now.)

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Postcard of the Day

2026-04-04T15:57:17Z

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Best Wrong Answer time again

2026-03-28T16:31:08Z

These are the candidates I liked in this season's LearnedLeague Very Best Wrong Answer contest, with my 3 votes at the end.

A: A mini-resurgence of history-based plays on Broadway began in part with the 2007 debut of a drama by playwright Peter Morgan. The play was set in California in 1977, and starred Michael Sheen and Frank Langella as what title characters? (Note, name both characters.)

BERT, ERNIE

B: What is essentially the UK's equivalent to Japan's NHK, Italy's RAI, Ireland's RTÉ, and Germany's ZDF (and perhaps ARD)?

YE OLDE STOCK MARKET

C: What Netflix series, based on a 1989 novel and a 1990 British series of the same name, follows a manipulative congressman and his equally strategic wife as they scheme their way to the top of American politics? It was Netflix's first major original production and the first streaming show to win a major Emmy.

HOW I MET GEORGE SANTOS'S MOTHER

D: While Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen considered 1873's Kejser og Galilaer(Emperor and Galilean) his masterpiece, his international fame was secured by two social plays that followed, titled Et Dukkehjem(1879) and Gengangere (1881). The former is known in English as A Doll's House; give the common English translation of the latter.

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NORDISH BREAKDOWN

E: In baseball, one of the statistics that measures a pitcher's performance, essentially how many baserunners a pitcher allows, is abbreviated WHIP. What do the letters in WHIP stand for?

WAIT HERE, I'M PITCHING

F: "Relief printing" involves carving away unwanted areas from a surface and inking what remains raised (like a rubber stamp). What Italian word refers to the opposite technique, in which the artist cuts into a plate, fills the grooves with ink, and wipes the surface clean before pressing paper onto it?

GROOVE IS IN THE ART

G: What chicken finger purveyor began in 1996 with a single location near the campus of Louisiana State University and, by the end of 2025, had grown to nearly 1,000 locations and more than $5 billion in annual sales?

BON TEMPS POULET

H: Geosmin, a compound produced by soil-dwelling bacteria, helps create the familiar smell that comes with the first rain after a dry spell. What sensory term, coined from Greek roots in 1964 by Australian researchers Isabel Joy Bear and Richard G. Thomas, refers to this scent?

ANSWER REDACTED - TRADEMARKED BY YANKEE CANDLE

I: A possibly apocryphal 1807 story by English journalist William Cobbett about using a pungent fish to divert hunting hounds is widely credited (and widely questioned) as the source for the name of what literary device?

HE WHO SMELT IT DEALT IT

J: What Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628, was eventually salvaged in 1961, and has been housed since 1990 in a museum on the city's island of Djurgården?

FJORD EXPLORER

K: In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote?

A PITCHER, BELLY-ITCHER

And my votes went to:

3: In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote?

JETS, JET2HOLIDAY

2: The Yang-Mills existence, Navier-Stokes existence, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Hodge conjecture are all associated collectively with what prize?

FIFA MATHEMATICS PRIZE

1: While diamonds are not geologically rare (they're more common than emeralds and rubies), they became artificially scarce due in large part to the actions of what company, which controlled 80-90% of the rough diamond distribution from 1888 to the early 2000s, and essentially created the tradition of diamond wedding engagement rings in America in the 1930s and 1940s?

EVERY KISS BEGINS WITH KAPITALISM

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Postcard of the Day

2026-03-28T15:06:23Z

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2026-03-21T15:01:23Z

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2026-03-14T17:30:03Z

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2026-02-28T16:18:45Z

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2026-02-21T16:26:03Z

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Postcard of the Day

2026-02-16T00:18:15Z

It's melting today, but it's nowhere near this melted.

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Postcard of the Day

2026-02-14T16:15:42Z

Is it safe to come out now?

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Postcard of the Day

2026-02-07T17:49:48Z

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Postcard of the Day

2026-01-31T17:26:00Z

The back doesn't talk about the snow and seems like part of a longer letter-on-postcards, but I put it for you anyway ( back here. )

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2026-01-24T16:08:24Z

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2026-01-17T15:41:30Z

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2026-01-13T19:31:31Z

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2026-01-03T15:42:22Z

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2025-12-28T18:51:11Z

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Postcard of the Day

2025-12-27T16:48:44Z

and the back, if you're interested:

(as always, click for bigger)

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Best Wrong Answer time

2025-12-20T17:58:13Z

Time for my seasonal round-up of best wrong answers from LearnedLeague. (We get to vote at the end of the season.). The background shading doesn't mean anything---it's just from the every-other-line-shadedness of the list I'm copying from.

First, my honorable mentions:

A complex at 1820 E. Thomas St. in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood serves as the central setting of what 1992 film and grunge-era Gen X classic?
RAINSPOTTING

Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
SEVERE PLAQUE PSIORASIS MEDICATIONS

The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name?
MOUNT EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION (really should be "EXPRESS", but haha anyway)

What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from a Medieval Latin word and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine near Frankfurt, is (per that Latin word's literal definition) intended to describe a meeting lasting only one day?
MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE

The Delian League, a voluntary alliance named for its island base and with upwards of 300 members at its peak, eventually evolved into the beginnings of what empire?
800-588-2300 EMPIRE

What town on the River Thames in England, home to the Royal Regatta, lent its name to the collarless shirt with a short buttoned placket that provided ideal ventilation for rowers? Today it's a menswear staple as a casual T-shirt alternative, undershirt, or layering piece.
QUARTERZIP-UPON-THAMES

My two runners-up:

3. Robert Graves's 1934 historical novel explores the drama of political scheming and the workings of imperial power in 1st-century Rome during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, as told by whom?
ROBERT GRAVES, PRESUMABLY

2. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also the birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows and distinctive image, in which members wear matching jumpsuits and individual masks and are identified by number?
BRING IN DES MOINES, BRING IN DES FUNK

And my vote for Best Wrong Answer:

1. What carmaker, whose eponymous founder was born under the zodiac sign Taurus, has named many of its models after famous fighting bulls, including Murciélago, Aventador, Diablo, and Huracán?
CHEVR-OLÉ!

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2025-12-20T15:54:50Z

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2025-12-15T18:04:12Z

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2025-11-29T16:33:14Z

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2025-11-27T19:29:55Z

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2025-11-22T15:48:01Z

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