Harrowing story of a munitions plant explosion in Sayreville in 1918. In the 1990s, some shells were found near an elementary school and the resulting search found another 5,000 unexploded shells. more than 100 years later, the local high school is still called...the Bombers.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the ancient city of Aquiry was very big. A new paper in Nature says that LiDAR has helped them identify 20,000 earthworks in the city. Seems like a lot.
Great to see Danielle Lohrman (RULA '27) so involved with this special partnership at Rutgers Gardens:
Historic Iris Partnership Blooms at Rutgers Gardens
Wikipedia has a lengthy entry on landlocked countries. It includes basic "records" like largest (Kazakhstan) and most populous (Ethiopia). Less basic, like the fact that Kyrgyzstan is the farthest landlocked country from any ocean. And a little odd was a list of countries that are landlocked by exactly two other countries.
But the truly unexpected section was about "double-landlocked" countries, which are countries surrounded by landlocked countries. In all the world, there are only two of these exist: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
I should post this every year...
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."
-Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
