Thanks, Mr. Shepherd. Thanks,Shakespeares Words. It was good fun researching this one. © Dennis Simanaitis,SimanaitisSays.com, 2025
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Indeed,“On Politicians and Hypocrisy”was a topic here atSimanaitisSaysaccompanied by the likes of Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, and the rest back in 2017. Getting the Lead Out. Another environmental success story dating from the 1970s was removing TEL, tetraethyl lead, from gasoline. Effective...
Pineapple History.Interesting Factssays, “Prior to the 20th century, when pineapple plantations made the fruit widely available, pineapples were incredibly expensive imports to Europe (and most other places). In the 18th century, a single fruit bought in Britain couldcost upwards of $8,000 in ...
DAVID REMNICK, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER, preaches to the choir. As one of its members, I preach more or less to the same audience here at SimanaitisSays, though I …Continue reading→ March 16, 2025 ·2 Comments STIMSON AND BEAN—HEROIC DOCTORS PART 2 ...
Yet Another OED Add.The word “bibliophilia,” the love of books, is one of the non-Japanese words making the new-add list. I am a bibliophiliac, seemingly in any language. ds © Dennis Simanaitis,SimanaitisSays.com, 2024
Simanaitis Says On cars, old, new and future; science & technology; vintage airplanes, computer flight simulation of them; Sherlockiana; our English language; travel; and other stuff Category Archives: Classic Bits About the Author A USED CAR AFTER WHICH I LUST “THE ASTON MARTIN CYGNET,”...
TheGuardianarticle cites that more than half of Shakespeare’s character deaths “are by stabbing—and two by being baked in a pie.” What with such revengeful cuisine,Titus Andronicusholds the record for Shakespearean gore-porn. As describedhere atSimanaitisSays, Queen of Rome Tamora’s two so...
I sense a latter-day equivalence in the term “cherry picking,” of selecting only that evidence supporting one’s preconceived opinions. Gee. A lot of this goes around these days, as apparently it did back in Victorian times. ds © Dennis Simanaitis,SimanaitisSays.com, 2021...
Last, imagine the legal implications. Based on reading these articles, I’d opt for keeping humans, error-prone though they may be, completely in the loop. What about you? ds © Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2015