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1893 in the Margins

18 September 2026 at 17:05
Pamela Toler (History in the Margins, 9/5/26), "The Great Panic of 1893": "occasionally an event, or person, or book, or idea ... shows up in footnotes or casual asides ... if it's interesting or important enough, I share it ... Lately, the Great Panic of 1893 has become insistent." Neil Flanagan (The Birth of a Capital, 9/4/26), "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?": "what draws us to an event, story, or image depends less on the context of the events than the context we inhabit." Photos / maps / VR of the fair. Foods, sweet treats, and "orange cider" of the fair. Pall Mall Magazine and RIBA Journal on the fair. And other magazines that began in 1893 feature Ida Tarbell on "Pasteur at Home," famous prints, rules for psychic / occult investigators, articles on orchidology and astronomy, "Last Week's Paris" followup on anarchists, and the first story of Sexton Blake.

Map Apps Are Handling Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America Differently

1 September 2026 at 20:40
Navigation companies face a new dilemma after President Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America.

Β© Keito Newman/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press

The companies making map apps are having to respond to President Trump’s order to change the lake’s name from Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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