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H.D. Miller
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H.D. Miller
@hdmillr
Historian, Blogger, Writer, Professor, Bon Vivant. My site is An Eccentric Culinary History: https://t.co/seXiUEIBq1
Nashville, Tennessee شامل ہوئے Eylül 2009
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@legallybrown703 @SickosCommittee In their favor, Columbia does have a pretty shameful football history.
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@hdmillr @SickosCommittee I’m a Harv grad and am too closely aware of how clueless Ivy students can be with sports and sports history. But this is on another level. It reminds me of lost historical artifacts hidden in Hogwarts lol. Can’t believe it was just THERE for like 40 years?? My goodness.
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The goalposts from Columbia's 1988 defeat of Princeton, a victory that ended Columbia's 44-game losing streak, a college football record at the time. Found in the "garden" behind my daughter's Columbia apartment.
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@legallybrown703 @SickosCommittee That's what my daughter said. The funny thing is, I have two daughters at Columbia on the rowing team. The one who wasn't living in the apartment recognized it. The one in the apartment ignored it.
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@hdmillr @SickosCommittee So presumably the goalposts just sat there while generations of students looked at it with no idea of the history? Did students (prob not sports fans) just think it was a rusty pipe or something? This is so wild. Need more backstory here
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@RolandGunnTN American Protestantism is rightfully iconoclastic. Get those idols out of my church.
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The Byzantine style of iconography is a product of canons which are not our canons, and artistic traditions which are not our traditions. We have Anglo, Celtic & American styles of religious art going back centuries to draw off of. Byzantine iconography doesn’t belong in Western rites.
SouthernAnglo@AngloSouthern
I don't understand the appeal of placing Eastern Orthodox Icons in the front of Anglican Churches. It screams high-church nondenominationalism. If you want imagery, at least go with something authentically Anglican.
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@CowboyGospeler I wrote a long piece about it a few years ago.
eccentricculinary.com/californias-va…
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Johnson's 1862, 1866 and National Geographic 1940 maps of the Southwest.
Southern Chestnut 🐣🐰@AppyOrtho
A lot of Southern pride in the southwest. They are our brothers🤝
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@bronzeagemantis I wrote several articles on Chilean food, with an eye to turning them into a book. The working title was "A Completo in Santiago", about hot dogs. I think the best of the articles was "Mote con Huesillos on Cerro San Cristobal"...
eccentricculinary.substack.com/p/mote-con-hue…
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APRIL 11TH FUNDRAISER CONCERT: If you’re in Nashville come hear this! Playing some classical, jazz, film music, even gonna sing and play saxophone. Have some great players from X joining me, it’s at a historic venue, gonna be great. Links in the video and below. See you April 11!
slimzim@jameszimmermann
BLACKLISTED: In September the Knoxville Symphony invited me to their blind audition for Principal Clarinet, which I won by unanimous vote. Two days later their CEO called and refused to hire me, citing my ousting from the Nashville Symphony six years ago for resisting DEI as the reason, and instead gave the job to my runner-up, an obvious DEI hire who’s still in college. In response I sued the Knoxville Symphony two weeks ago for a year’s salary plus $25k for the 100 hours I spent practicing for the audition. This isn’t just about money though, it’s also about pushing back against these symphony CEOs who continue to put race and politics above merit and skill. Someone has to save our symphonies from being sacrificed on the altar of “diversity” and no one is better positioned to do it than me. Wish I didn’t have to do it but I’m doing it anyway. I was excited to take the stage with the Knoxville Symphony but instead I’ll see them in court. If Knoxville thought I’d walk away from this they were sorely mistaken.
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Red Bluff Roundup California, now the largest three-day rodeo in the United States.
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@DisgracedProp My nephew bought a house on a golf course in Merced that has a pomelo tree with the most delicious fruit I've ever had. Completely justified the purchase of the house.
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My favorite St. Patrick’s Day read today comes from @hdmillr .
The Curse of an Irish Cook
The Glory of Irish Cuisine is Boiled Meat on St. Patrick's Day
“Biddy was becoming American. How could it have been otherwise? The Irish girls made good money, read a lot of books and newspapers, and had no intention of going back to Ireland. They were dead set on becoming American, and being American meant republicanism, egalitarian manners, and showing and being shown proper respect.”
open.substack.com/pub/eccentricc…
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@zanehkoch My dad is 100 and was a nuclear engineer for 60 years. I showed him the thread and he said, "This was discovered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory a long time ago [1950s], and it was deliberately repressed because it didn't fit with the narratives about radiation."
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for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain
this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it
what i found was...not what I expected?
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@CowboyGospeler When I was learning Arabic at DLI in the mid-80s, I went over there for sailing lessons. The Post Graduate School had sailboats at a pier in Monterey you could borrow for an afternoon. Very fun.
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In the 80s, as a teen, I worked for a few months as a union carpenter at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Amazing architecture that had that Hearst Castle vibe. They also had great lunchtime hoagie sandwiches.
Jack Chambers@JackChambersGB
More of the Roman pool at Hearst Castle today
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In the state of Wyoming in the USA lies a real hydrological oddity. It's a small stream (creek) that is thought to be the only one of very few examples in the world. It is placed so precariously and perfectly that it's hard to believe it is able to exist.
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My wife ask me if I ever noticed Californians say 'sure' (shur / shir), out of state folks living here say shore / shoor. So far I'm batting thousand when I ask people that say 'shore' where they're from, it's always another state. My fellow Southwest folks, you say it like us?
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It's not that they couldn't afford a pastor or an organ. It's that, on the frontier, they were going to each others services. The Methodist circuit rider one week, the Presbyterian the next, the Episcopalian the next, often in the same log chapel. People like Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone were very intentional in figuring out a theology that diminished the differences between Protestants. They arrived at primitivism as the compromise.
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@JohnnyReb1989 My great-great-great-grandfather's Civil War service rifle is out there somewhere.
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William H. H. Foor was my Great-Great-Great Grandfather, the one who survived the 107th Pennsylvania infantry. In the early 1950's, someone found his service rifle and pension papers. foorgenealogy.com/rifle.html
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I own serial number 1586. Obliterated US and patent dates (possible outlaw use, deserting soldier, or indian captured after a battle). Small traces of a period nickel plating. All original. My Colt is bookended by serial numbers owned by outlaws and other famous soldiers and regiments. Including serial 1543 which was a documented 7th Cavalry gun, and 2499 which was owned by Custer's scout Charley Reynolds who was killed at Little Bighorn.
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Johnny Ringo's Colt. Serial number 222. Found in his hand (mentioned by serial number, containing five cartridges, in inquest document, "Statement for the information of the Coroner and Sheriff of Cochise County, A.T.," 1882). It sold for $362,812.50 in 2021. More photos below.
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