I don’t know when or where the Newton “Derivative Punchline” joke first started. I remember we used to do that all the time in college and I suspect people have been doing that all the time in college since the 18th century. Anyway, good to see a classic line still alive! – Count DvL
Check out the Count’s new Women in Science for quark-gluon plasma maestro, quantum chromodynamicist Agnes Mocsy!
Why is Lafayette in a sack? I refer you, dear reader, to this very fine circa 2015 Frederick the Great comic! Back with the main story next week! – Count DvL
Napoleon III wasn’t entirely the hapless screw-up it’s tempting to turn him into. After the absurd theater of his first, fantastically unsuccessful attempts to stage a coup, through the Mexican debacle and the ultimate defeat at the hands of Bismarck and von Moltke, there’s a bunch of just silly goings-on, but there’s more to the fellow than the punchlines, even if it seems we’re starting to go too far in the opposite direction to make up for years of intemperate guffawing. Anyway, my favorite Nap3 book is the old one by Archibald Forbes, but one of these days I have firm, definite, even reaching the level of flimsy, plans to read the Bresler one sitting just over there. Not, not there. There. That one. Some day. – DvL
Thomas Paine’s end was one of the saddest to be inflicted upon any of the founding fathers. After Age of Reason, all of his former political allies, the men who owed the success of the revolution to his pen, entirely abandoned him, and left him to die in squalor. Rumford, meanwhile, bounced about as Rumfords magnificently do.
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