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Today in History

Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski is 80. Actor-director Robert Redford is 77. Actor-comedian Martin Mull is 70. — The Associated Press Related material — Rented Lips … … and Your…

The Story of N…

… Continues. — Marissa Mayer in the current Vogue  online

Up-to-Date Geometry

The following excerpt from a January 20, 2013, preprint shows that a Galois-geometry version of the large Desargues 154203 configuration, although based on the nineteenth-century work of Galois* and of Fano,**  may at times have twenty-first-century…

Inglorious

                 (From French Wikipedia.  Click image for                  more about the Théâtre de la…

Six-Set Geometry

From April 23, 2013, in ​"Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry"— Click above image for some background from 1986. Related material on six-set geometry from the classical literature—…

The Crosswicks Curse

(Continued from previous posts) A check of today's date in this journal ten years ago yields a reference to the Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão. It turns out he died on…

History's Nightmare…

… Continues. See Quine + Boxer in this journal.

Valhalla Is Down

Odin's Day continues.  The title is a reference to the recent film "Olympus Has Fallen," directed by Antoine Fuqua (which I watched last night). Related material: Ascent to Valhalla,…

ART WARS

(Continued from 24 hours ago and from May 9, 2012) Quoted 24 hours ago in this journal— Remark by Aldous Huxley on an artist's work: "All the turmoil,…

The Gift

"Give 'em hell." — Ben Bernanke at Princeton's Baccalaureate, 2013 Some background — Janet Leigh and the Museum of Modern Art "The Varnedoe Debacle," by Hilton Kramer (Dec. 1991)…