D3
MORE SENIORS SHUN MARRIAGE
"Karen Kanter ... had divorced twice after long marriages -- 38 years, in total -- when she met Mr. Tobin on Match.com."
Marriage, schmarriage ... they look happy!
A18
LONG ISLAND SEES ITS WATER GO FROM BAD TO ALARMING
" ... [T]he shellfish industry has all but collapsed."
"[T]he project ... became so mired in corruption ... '[I]t was the biggest scandal in the county's history.'"
"[R]esidents must choose between showering or doing laundry because drainage is so poor."
"Peter Scully, Suffolk's water czar: 'Over the next 20 years, I'd like to see that we've resolved this crisis ... It's taken decades to get here, but I think from where I sit today, we can solve this in one generation.'"
D2
VOLCANOES SO CLOSE, AND SO DIFFERENT
"Mauna Loa, the biggest volcano on Earth -- and one of the most active -- covers half the island of Hawaii."
The online version is much more detailed. Solving nature's mysteries. This one's a beauty.
A6
BUILDING A TOWERING PYRE FOR A FUNERAL FIT FOR A KING
The Thai people really really loved their late king. And on October 26th, "an elegant nine-spired funeral pyre ... will send King Bhumibol Adulyadej's soul into the afterlife."
"Any remaining bones will be enshrined as royal relics at the Throne Hall of the palace, and the ashes will be kept separately at two temples."
D2
PALEO DIET: WHEN MEAT REALLY WAS MURDER
"This is one paper that will make you queasy, or have you reaching for some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Scientists just love morbid shit like this.
A4
A STAMP OF "BREXIT" DISAPPROVAL
"They ought to make it the Brexit logo ..."
Astonishing art.
D4
ARTIFICIAL WOMBS RAISE CONCERNS
"Recently, scientists announced that they had created an artificial womb in which lambs born prematurely grew for a month. Human testing is not expected for three to five years, if it is done at all."
C1
A MUSEUM CREATED FOR WRITERS
Go home and read a book!
No, seriously this place looks amazing.
You can actually read "On the Road" in this unique "scroll edition."
MORE SENIORS SHUN MARRIAGE
"Karen Kanter ... had divorced twice after long marriages -- 38 years, in total -- when she met Mr. Tobin on Match.com."
Marriage, schmarriage ... they look happy!
A18
LONG ISLAND SEES ITS WATER GO FROM BAD TO ALARMING
" ... [T]he shellfish industry has all but collapsed."
"[T]he project ... became so mired in corruption ... '[I]t was the biggest scandal in the county's history.'"
"[R]esidents must choose between showering or doing laundry because drainage is so poor."
"Peter Scully, Suffolk's water czar: 'Over the next 20 years, I'd like to see that we've resolved this crisis ... It's taken decades to get here, but I think from where I sit today, we can solve this in one generation.'"
D2
VOLCANOES SO CLOSE, AND SO DIFFERENT
"Mauna Loa, the biggest volcano on Earth -- and one of the most active -- covers half the island of Hawaii."
The online version is much more detailed. Solving nature's mysteries. This one's a beauty.
A6
BUILDING A TOWERING PYRE FOR A FUNERAL FIT FOR A KING
The Thai people really really loved their late king. And on October 26th, "an elegant nine-spired funeral pyre ... will send King Bhumibol Adulyadej's soul into the afterlife."
"Any remaining bones will be enshrined as royal relics at the Throne Hall of the palace, and the ashes will be kept separately at two temples."
D2
PALEO DIET: WHEN MEAT REALLY WAS MURDER
"This is one paper that will make you queasy, or have you reaching for some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Scientists just love morbid shit like this.
A4
A STAMP OF "BREXIT" DISAPPROVAL
"They ought to make it the Brexit logo ..."
Astonishing art.
D4
ARTIFICIAL WOMBS RAISE CONCERNS
"Recently, scientists announced that they had created an artificial womb in which lambs born prematurely grew for a month. Human testing is not expected for three to five years, if it is done at all."
C1
A MUSEUM CREATED FOR WRITERS
Go home and read a book!
No, seriously this place looks amazing.
The Kerouac scroll is amazing:
You can actually read "On the Road" in this unique "scroll edition."
TIME MACHINE
May 9, 1882
135 years ago
Page 1
PURSUING THE ASSASSINS
"Mr. Gladstone today, replying to the condolences of the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy of India, telegraphed: 'The object of this black act is plainly to arouse indignant passions and embitter the relations between Great Britain and Ireland.'"
This ancient atrocity is explained quite well by this historian. This article discusses how Parnell used "fake news" to try to bring down the Irish Home Rule leader.
Page 1
CURRENT FOREIGN TOPICS
The Times gathers these little bites of news from the far-flung corners of the globe:
"ST. PETERSBURG, May 8. -- The Senate, as a Court of Appeal, has decided that the decree banishing Jewish apothecaries is illegal.
CAIRO, May 8. -- The false prophet, who appeared in Soudan, has been killed, and his followers have dispersed."
Page 4
BEARS IN DISTRESS
Were polar bears in trouble 135 years ago? This strange article -- apparently meant to be humorous -- is filled with startling satiric prose.
"What is the matter with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that it shows no interest in the sufferings of the polar bears? It is now more than a week since several vessels arrived at this port and reported having passed icebergs in the neighborhood of the Banks on board of which quantities of estimable polar bears were floating toward an inevitable and watery grave. Are these animals to be allowed to perish, as they certainly will unless Mr. Bergh's society sends out an expedition to rescue them?"
Page 8
CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS
From the City That Never Sleeps:
"Peter Bieler, an employe in Meidlinger & Schmidt's malt-house, at the foot of East sixty-fourth-street, went to sleep in a malt-bin yesterday, and was crushed to death by a steam stirring-machine."
Page 8
BASE-BALL
Baseball Reference does not begin to list the "Met" seasons until the next year -- 1883!
Reading this box-score is fascinating. Five wild pitches and six passed balls!
Page 8
THE PENALTY OF FOOLHARDINESS
A solo tightrope act in Flushing goes horribly wrong, and The Times relates the tragedy in exquisite detail.
"He bounded back in the air from the force of the fall, made a frantic effort to catch the rope, and then fell backward to the roadway, striking upon his shoulders and back of his head. the blow rendered him insensible ..."
No, the dude was insensible before he began his act.
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