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Someone who recently visited Buenos Aires sent me this photo of the burial place of the famed boxer Luis Angel Firpo in La Recoleta Cemetery. Firpo is perhaps most famous for his 1923 fight against Jack Dempsey in which he knocked Dempsey out of the ring. Dempsey returned just in…
Read More »Tony Sampas shares some photos of the Boott Dam Gatehouse
Read More »Lowell and the Civil War: First Blood: Lexington of 1861 Exhibit and Reception Monday, April 18, 2011 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Mogan Cultural Center 40 French Street Lowell, Massachusetts 01852 The country had come to the conclusion that Mr. Lincoln and his cabinet were mainly employed in packing their…
Read More »The Guardian in the UK today has an in-depth article about the way the ideas in “Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” by economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher influence the thinking and policies of Prime Minister David Cameron of England and some of his Conservative Party colleagues. I…
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