The tax increases and deficit spending you propose will hurt middle class families.
—Sen. Marco Rubio
President Obama thinks the solution to every problem is to “tax more, borrow more and spend more.
—Sen. Marco Rubio
AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW. Confused? You’re in good company. These inscrutable letters mark the start of a 143-character coded message sent during the second world war, and found strapped to the leg of a dead pigeon down a chimney in Surrey earlier this month.
Color poster promoting the sleek Southern Pacific GS-4 “Daylight” train, which made the run from Los Angeles to San Francisco, circa 1937.
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Night Tumblr - we’ll leave you with this great pic! Men feed migratory birds from a boat on the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India. Several species of migratory birds from places as far as Siberia arrive in Delhi in October and leave by March. Photograph: Tsering Topgyal/AP
The Statler Hotel kitchen staff cheerfully preparing Thanksgiving Dinner under the watchful eye of Head Chef Francis “Jumbo” Mendicina, 1955.
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An extraordinary picture of a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs. This and all the best news images from Thursday here: Photograph: China Daily/Reuters
I took a spin through the archives and—lo and behold, I discovered something quite fascinating: today, even the richest among us do not eat Thanksgiving like the rich of 1900.
Click-through to read Macy Halford on the time Mark Twain tried to move Thanksgiving, and for more on Thanksgiving menus in 1900.
Cartoon by Tom Toro. For more: http://nyr.kr/QTRAJd
I’ll begin the shenanigans with this piece I made recently about dogs. While it isn’t strictly a chart, you get 7 or 8 charts for the price of one! (I use the term “chart” loosely here) -Will
