• "The Great American Foot Race"

    Training run before the big race, spring 1928

  • Renaissance Cipher Disks

    Folger Shakespeare Library

  • "The Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker"

    On the bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ca 1915

  • Go: Thinking Hard

    European Go Championships, 2017

  • "The Great American Foot Race"

    Johnny Salo leads into hometown, Passaic, NJ, Day 83

  • Enigma

    German Cipher Machine, WWII

  • "The Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker"

    In his Nieuport 28, 1918

  • Go: Having Fun

    American Go Association clubs

  • America's Cryptologists

    William and Elizebeth Friedman, ca 1917

  • Go: Around the World

    Cuban Girls Play Go

  • "The Gold Bug" Cipher

    Edgar Allan Poe's Famous Literary Cryptogram

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13 Jan 2022

Ulysses Grant to the Rescue
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To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 is Bret Baier’s fourth biographical book. Even so, I couldn’t escape the feeling that he is playing at... READ MORE

17 Dec 2021

The Strength of Weak Ties
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N wasn’t at the grocery store on Sunday morning. I went in all smiles, ready to talk Bengals, especially about that interception last week when Ja’Marr Chase had his defender beat, but he... READ MORE

1 Dec 2021

Kids These Days
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“Kids these days….” The phrase doesn’t need to be completed and usually isn’t. But the meaning is clear. Children have disappointed their parents. Or, if not their own, other parents’ kids have, with... READ MORE

11 Nov 2021

Forgotten Radical
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“He was buried in Hyde Park, his impact largely forgotten in the city and region that he loved enough to want to change.” Thus ends Kerry Greenidge’s 2020 biography of the–yes–much neglected... READ MORE