H.D. Miller

Historian, Blogger, Writer, Professor, Bon Vivant. My site is An Eccentric Culinary History:

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In honor of St. Patrick's Day...

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@JustinShubow Tennessee is doing it right. The Schermerhorn Symphony Center opened in Nashville in 2006.

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@ImaginaryVoid @L0m3z I moved to Argentina for a year. We put our kids in school there. It was great. A lovely country, full of lovely people. America was largely intact when we returned.

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@CyberPunkCortes Follow that guy on instagram. It's a wonder he's still alive. Only a matter of time.

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@BestNashTransit @meriwetheracdmy @NWSteury I was hoping to make it, but I had to be in NYC for my daughter's college graduation.

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@AtomicEconomics @KevinEspiritu If you know, you know.

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Every time I read about a diving accident, I remind myself that early divers were insanely brave. Early aviators get all the glory for being brave, but people knew what falling from a great height would do to the human body. People didn't know that you could die in so many ways other than drowning. In fact, modern divers are still inventing new and more unexpectedly gruesome ways of dying.

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The funniest thing is that AI will do exactly the same thing to you. Give AI a piece of your creative writing and ask for feedback. Then tell it that the piece was actually written by a famous writer and watch it back pedal in real time.

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What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

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@dioscuri The hilarious thing is that AI does exactly the same to us. Give it a piece of your prose and ask for feedback. Then say that it was written by a famous writer and watch it backpedal in real time.

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@HarveyBarker5 Agreed.

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I remember thinking that Troy had excellent fight choreography, but that it was mid overall. Also, that Brad Pitt was miscast. ("Sing, oh muses, of the rage of Achilles", but Brad Pitt was too chill to do rage. The role required peak Russell Crowe.)

Now, Troy looks great.

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Troy was so good. But you have to realize people at the time thought this was a B movie. The Lord of the Rings movies had just come out. Gladiator was only a few years old. Pirates of the Caribbean was the year before. We just thought movies would be good forever.

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@Fullantho @DisgracedProp It goes back even further than that. Los Angeles was pro-Confederacy in the Civil War.

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Auspicious day: I just saw the first firefly of the summer.

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@BBDaybreakEU That account is a classic, the standard by which all African travelogues should be judged.

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@CSandbatch Sedona, Arizona
Marfa, Texas

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@jameszimmermann I'm old. Tuck your shirt in, boy!

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@DisgracedProp Cava is for white women of all ages who have aspirations and disposable income.

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@Tom_Rowsell @NadineMaren @bunburyoudoujp By 1880, there were 15,000 Western style restaurants in Japan, where diners dressed in western clothes ate meat with a knife and fork. Katsu is a transliteration of "cutlet".

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@CowboyGospeler Needs an E Clampus Vitus plaque.

[Virgil Davis Hunt @vrgldh]

Off I-40 somewhere between Memphis and Little Rock is the Louisiana Purchase State Park. Driven past it a thousand times. Finally stopped there last weekend. This is place of great power.

It's very small park that consists of an elevated walkway leading you through a headwater swamp to a stone monument.

The stone marker sits on the spot where the 5th Principal Meridian and the Baseline survey lines intersect, the initial point from which all surveys of property acquired through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 originated.

It was only after this point was established that land grants could be issued, settlers, prospectors and ranchers could stake a claim, or towns could be platted.

The point was lost to time until 1921 when during a resurveying operation of the three Arkansas counties it intersects, surveyors discovered marked "witness" trees from the initial 1815 survey.

Realizing the significance of the spot, the Daughters of the American Revolution erected the commemorative stone marker in 1926.

An informational plaque in front of the marker reads, "Here the settlement of the American West began."

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@StuckeyStop Need to bring back the Seven Keys Coconut Toast Spread.