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I found this article on Greenland sharks fascinating: Some Greenland sharks alive today may have been contemporaries of Shakespeare. With a scarred heart that beats for centuries, and eyesight that doesn’t fade, this deep-sea shark defies age-related decline.          The ocean’s dead often wash up on the storm-battered west coast of Ireland. But in April 2026, …

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Olimpia Maidalchini, the Mistress of the Vatican (her description in Eleanor Herman’s book of the same title), was born in a small Italian town outside of Rome in 1591, to a family of no wealth and little influence. The money her father did make, he intended to leave solely to his son, meaning that Olimpia …

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I have written several blogs over the past year or so in which I have included my conclusion that the only three pillars of Trump’s motivation for doing everything in his life are: (1) Staying out of jail; (2) making as much money as possible by whatever means he can get away with; and (3) …

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Legislative enforcement is a topic that has bothered me for a long time: From my days as a lobbyist in Washington, many moons ago, to wondering what will happen when Trump decides to ignore the laws of the land and cancel the next mid-term elections because he thinks the Republicans will lose the House of …

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