Events for the 24th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1957: Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
• Birth (1532) of Thomas Lucy, English politician (d. 1600) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lucy
• Holiday: Christian feast of Ecgberht of Ripon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecgberht_of_Ripon
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DRIPPER. A gleet.

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@gutenberg_org I am currently reading #science writer Philip Ball’s “The Elements: A Visual #History of their Discovery”. https://philipball.co.uk/the-elements-a-visual-history-of-their-discovery/

LEVITE. A priest or parson.

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Events for the 23rd of April from Wikipedia:

• 1655: The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Santo_Domingo_(1655)
• Birth (1988) of Signe Ronka, Canadian figure skater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe_Ronka
• Death (1996) of P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers
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CROAKUMSHIRE. Northumberland, from the particular croaking the pronunciation of the people of that county, especially about Newcastle and Morpeth, where they are said to be born with a burr in their throats, which prevents their pronouncing the letter r.

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The Man Who Invented the Future

Are we the conflicted heirs of the world according to Francis Bacon?

by Ed Simon

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future

Bacon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/296

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POLISH. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to be in gaol, and look through the iron grated windows. To polish a bone; to eat a meal. Come and polish a bone with me; come and eat a dinner or supper with me.

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Events for the 22nd of April from Wikipedia:

• 1945: World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp
• Birth (1962) of Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Minter
• Holiday: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_Remembrance_Day_(Serbia)
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DROP COVES. Persons who practice the fraud of dropping a ring or other article, and picking it up before the person intended to be defrauded, they pretend that the thing is very valuable to induce their gull to lend them money, or to purchase the article.

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TO COLLOGUE. To wheedle or coax.

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Events for the 21st of April from Wikipedia:

• 1821: Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benderli_Ali_Pasha
• Birth (1973) of Steve Backshall, English naturalist, writer, and television presenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Backshall
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FOXED. Intoxicated.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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NOCKY BOY. A dull simple fellow.

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Events for the 20th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1828: René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cailli%C3%A9
• Birth (1975) of Killer Mike, American rapper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Mike
• Holiday: Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Bugenhagen
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@screwlisp

You can pick up the document 'Signalling and Handling Conditions' from this index page:

http://nhplace.com/kent/ZL/

It was longer than I thought it would be, but I think you'll find it interesting to see what the Zetalisp condition system (which inspired the Common Lisp condition system) looked like.

In spirit, it was much the same. The biggest differences are:

* The CL system has 'active' restarts, where the ZL system had a passive thing where you returned a value to the case context and hoped that it would do the thing you wanted. It felt quite a bit more error-prone (if you'll pardon the reuse of 'error' here, maybe I should say 'mistake-prone').

* The ZL condition system offers a lot of really low-level stuff that did not seem proper for CL.

* The set of operations offered in ZL was richer, but also a lot more complicated, I thought, and I worried people would not really see what it was trying to do.

* Obviously, the ZL system was based on Flavors, not CLOS, and made reference to a lot of LispM-specific packages.

* The document was published in January, 1983 and identifies itself as part of Symbolics Release 4.0.

There are other differences as well.

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APPLE CART. Down with his apple-cart; knock or throw him down.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#SilentSunday — "I will always love you" — Westinghouse "Atom Smasher"

A bit of forgotten #nuclear #history in the suburbs of #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania

Have a good day.
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JUMBLEGUT LANE. A rough road or lane.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Events for the 19th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1985: Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco_and_Firearms
• Birth (1897) of Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_de_Noronha
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ARBOR VITAE. A man's penis.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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BAYARD OF TEN TOES. To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances,

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Events for the 18th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1912: The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunard_Line
• Birth (1976) of Melissa Joan Hart, American actress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Joan_Hart
• Death (1802) of Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin
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MISH TOPPER. A coat, or petticoat.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Islands of the Imagination

By Livia Gershon

A short history of islands as sites of political escape and reinvention, from the myth of Atlantis to modern seasteading.

https://daily.jstor.org/islands-of-the-imagination/?utm_source=mcae&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04162026

Original article (from the archives):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43876781?mag=islands-of-the-imagination

Atlantis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1523

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Terror Antiquus by L.Bakst, 1908. The painting depicts a catastrophic flood or divine destruction of an ancient civilisation — widely interpreted as the fall of Atlantis or a mythological Mediterranean world. A goddess figure stands serenely at the centre, smiling enigmatically amid total apocalyptic chaos. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terror_Antiquus_by_L.Bakst_(1908).jpg

COOLER. A woman.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Events for the 17th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1969: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia
• Birth (1939) of Robert Miller, American art dealer (d. 2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Miller_(art_dealer)
• Death (818) of Bernard of Italy, Frankish king (b. 797) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Italy
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BUTCHER'S DOG. To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the beef without touching it; a simile often applicable to married men.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Revolutionary Concord
In the US’s sesquibicentenary year, Nan Quick heads to a culturally significant part of the country that gave rise to the republic

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LOWRE. Money. Cant.

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Events for the 16th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1520: The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros
• Birth (1933) of Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Bakewell
• Death (2001) of Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ritchie_(film_director)
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"As an antidote to this 'disease' of curiosity, then, Plutarch recommends a suite of ascetic practices, including not opening a letter upon its receipt, not consummating a marriage . . ."

—Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett for MIT Press

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/curiosity-is-no-solo-act/

#Curiosity #History

CHIRPING MERRY. Exhilarated with liquor. Chirping glass, a cheerful glass, that makes the company chirp like birds in spring.

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DERBY. To come down with the derbies; to pay the money.

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Events for the 15th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1715: The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamasee_War#Pocotaligo_massacre
• Birth (1772) of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Geoffroy_Saint-Hilaire
• Holiday: Father Damien Day (Hawaii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
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ROUT. A modern card meeting at a private house; also an order from the Secretary at War, directing the march and quartering of soldiers.

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6 Inspirational Women Who Redefined Art History

Patrons, muses, and artists—take a look at six inspirational women in the history of art.

by Anastasiia Kirpalov

https://www.thecollector.com/inspirational-women-redefined-art-history/

Art history at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5621

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Regina Cordium, by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, 1860. A pale, auburn-haired woman holds a purple pansy, wearing red coral necklaces with a heart pendant. The ornate gold background features repeating heart and cross motifs, and the title is inscribed on a wooden plaque below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Regina_Cordium_(1860).jpg

THOUGHT. What did thought do? lay'in bed and beshat himself, and thought he was up; reproof to any one who excuses himself for any breach of positive orders, by pleading that he thought to the contrary.

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Events for the 14th of April from Wikipedia:

• 1999: NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
• Birth (1958) of Jim Smith, English musician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Smith_(bassist)
• Death (1990) of Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olabisi_Onabanjo
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"This handbag thwarts fascists."

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