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Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Knox Trail

  . On January 10, 2026, people from Alford, Massachusetts and surrounding hamlets, villages and towns gathered at a point where 250 years ago, in the middle of winter, an extraordinary military cavalcade of horse-drawn sleds carrying 51 cannons and two howitzers passed on their way from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. This was Henry Knox’ … Continue reading

A Good Use for the Ice on Mercury

The volume of frozen water NASA discovered on Mercury is sufficient, according to the New York Times article today, to encase all of Washington, DC in a block of ice one and a half miles thick. I admire the creative, constructive use of the material. Boehner’ s face — frozen along with his tears. Ryan’s … Continue reading


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