Bay Curious - ‘Maison Bleue’: The S.F. Landmark You’ve Never Heard Of
At 3841 18th Street in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood sits a light blue Victorian, not unlike the countless other homes of that style in the city. Except this one is a major tourist destination—if you're French, that is. What makes this particular Blue House so special? We turn to NPR Culture Correspondent Chloe Veltman (who is half French herself) for the the very musical answer to this question.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Make ore break: Latin America’s commodities
The region is home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in batteries and electric vehicles, could it be on the cusp of a commodities boom? Germany’s auto industry is at risk. Volkswagen, one of its biggest carmakers, should be worried (10:27). And, England’s World Cup successes could change the face of women’s football (18:06).
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Curious City - Soul Train: How Chicago birthed the “hippest trip in America”
Curious City - Soul Train: How Chicago birthed the “hippest trip in America”
Omnibus - The DuMont Network (Entry 386.LK2417)
The Best One Yet - 📉 “Another Big Short” — Michael Burry’s Voldemort bet. TJ Maxx’s all-time high. Fogo de Chao’s group dinner.
Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chao just sold for $1B – We found out how it makes twice as much money per restaurant as The Olive Garden.
TJ Maxx stock just hit an all-time high and is now worth $100B — Because TJ’s hand-me-down strategy is paying off.
And back in 2008, legendary investor Michael Burry (from “The Big Short”) made a billion-dollar bet against the housing market, and he was right — He just made another, even bigger, Big Short.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.17.23
Alabama
- Chip Beeker opposes AL Power's plan to build reservoirs on Chandler Mtn.
- Efforts continue in AL to detach state libraries from Marxist lesbian director
- Winn Dixie parent company bought by ALDI supermarket company
- Operation "Back to School" results in 7 men arrested for child predation
- Former Tide QB from Hawaii raises money for victims of Maui fires
- Huntsville named #1 city for family relocation by US News & World Report
National
- Joe says he will go after all, to Hawaii, to view the Maui devastation
- 5th circuit court puts more restrictions on abortion inducing drug
- Mark Meadows seeks to move his Fulton county charges to federal court
- Former VP Pence says he does not believe 2020 GA election was faulty
- Part 3 of conversation with Sean Kauffman about "The Essential Church"
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Queen of Sheba (Encore)
All three of the holy books from great monotheistic faiths share a similar story about a Queen from a land in the south who traveled to Jerusalem to meet King Solomon.
This queen, who is said to have come from a land called Sheba, held not only the fascination of Solomon but of people for almost 3000 years.
But did she really exist, and if she did, where exactly did she come from?
Learn more about the Queen of Sheba on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Don J. Wyatt, “Slavery in East Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Today I talked to Don J. Wyatt about his book Slavery in East Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022).
In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warranting little examination, as the power and profits it afforded to the slaver made it a convention pursued unreflectively. Slavery in medieval East Asia shared with the West the commonplace assumption that nearly all humans were potential chattel, that once they had become owned beings, they could then be either sold or inherited. Yet, despite being representative of perhaps the most universalizable human practice of that age, slavery in medieval East Asia was also endowed with its own distinctive traits and traditions. Our awareness of these features of distinction contributes immeasurably to a more nuanced understanding of slavery as the ubiquitous and openly practiced institution that it once was and the now illicit and surreptitious one that it intractably remains.
Don J. Wyatt (Ph.D. Harvard University) is the John M. McCardell, Jr. Distinguished Professor at Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont, USA, where he has taught history and philosophy since 1986. He specializes in the intellectual history of China, with research interests most currently focused on the intersections between identity and violence and the nexuses between ethnicity and slavery.
Dong Wang is collection editor of Asian Studies books at Lived Places Publishing (New York & the UK), H-Diplo review editor, incoming visiting fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, research associate at Harvard Fairbank Center (since 2002), a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, director of the Wellington Koo Institute for Modern China in World History (Germany & USA), and an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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