September 2011
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The William Steinway Diary: 1861-1896 -... →
The National Museum of American History is engaged in a long-term project to create the first publicly accessible, annotated online edition of William Steinway’s remarkable diary. This first installment of the Web site includes Edwin M. Good’s complete transcription of all 2,500 pages of the Diary alongside high-resolution scans of each handwritten page.
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Google Patents →
Google Patents covers the entire collection of issued patents and millions of patent application made available by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, from patents issued in the 1790s through the present.
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“Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat...”
– John Maynard Keynes, quoted by Arthur Laffer
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Jurisdynamics: The Hierarchy of Legal Scholarship →
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“Francesco Cossiga andava pazzo per Beautiful. Durante la presidenza approfittava...”
– Altri mondi
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“Ogni scelta ha un rovescio cioè una rinuncia, e così non c’è differenza fra...”
– Italo Calvino - “Storia dell’indeciso” in La taverna dei destini incrociati [via giulia86]
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The Foreign Office
Jim Hacker: "Apparently, the White House thinks that the Foreign Office is full of pinkoes and traitors."
Bernard Woolley: "No, it's not. Well, not full."
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Jim Hacker: "Who knows Foreign Office secrets, apart from the Foreign Office?"
Bernard Woolley: "That's easy. Only the Kremlin."
[Yes Prime Minister - Season 1, Episode 6]
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Yes (Prime) Minister Theme
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“Because Betsey and I earn similar incomes, we would pay a marriage penalty. The...”
– Economists in Love: Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers - Spousonomics
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“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and...”
– Henry Ford [via stefanobernardi]
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“No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience...”
– Edward Coke, Preface to A Book of Entries (1614) [via The Volokh Conspiracy]
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“Come nuovo direttore dell’Avanti! mi insedio lunedì. Ho rilevato il giornale dal...”
– Maurizio Milani - Avanti! fisso
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Saints Marching In, 1590-2009 - Robert J. Barro... →
The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and canonization. We analyze determinants of rates of beatification and canonization (for non-martyrs) over time and across six world regions. The research uses a recently assembled data set on numbers and characteristics of beatifieds and saints chosen since 1590. We classify these...
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“Oppure un’altra sua frase classica, quando litigavamo, era: così danneggi...”
– Gabriella Buontempo sulla sua vita con Italo Bocchino
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“With only 960 residents and a handful of roads, this tiny hilltop village in the...”
– Austerity in Italy May Not End Its Jobs-for-Votes System - NYTimes.com 