Edgar Wright

Free of the silo since 2010; recovering Systems Geologist. Still searching for the lost chord

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@SwiftOnSecurity Here’s 79 for you https://t.co/gwLuzPOZpt

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@OldNewYork1664 Well, my gramma would take me to the movies so she would have a companion. The movie version of Oklahoma! was released in 1955 so I saw it no later than 1956. I still remember the trippy dream sequence. Don’t know if opiates would fly these days.

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@OldNewYork1664 Not using it yet, but I’ll give you credit for inspiring me to discover how 6th gg Stringham left Long Island for the mainland as part of a Quaker migration.

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@OldNewYork1664 L’Esclavage au Canada français, 1960: https://t.co/vBYnsEpNAy

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@OldNewYork1664 1759 Peter Pond at siege of Fort Ticonderoga “I Got but One Slite wound Dureing the Seage. At the End of Twenty five Days the fort Capatalated to leave the Works with the honners of war & lay down thare Armes on the Beach …”
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@OldNewYork1664 I can’t pick sides in the New York–Massachusetts border and land‑title crisis. My English line was heading west while my Dutch line was trying to fend them off. As in other colonial conflicts, the grandchildren intermarried.

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@OldNewYork1664 My rules of thumb: look for the II of e, look for the floating stroke over u, distinguish between the descenders of h and s, pray the capitals are legible.

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@OldNewYork1664 Here is an excellent overview of the history of German script. Note the letter to Abraham Lincoln; it is very similar to the script used by my wife’s relatives in Baden-Württemberg: https://t.co/G6oY8bq0XO

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@OldNewYork1664 This is the word “evangelischer” in Kurrentschrift and it well encapsulates the difficulty of reading lowercase letters. This was written in a government office with steel nibs. The diary was probably written with goose quill nibs in a less well-appointed setting.

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@OldNewYork1664 Do you mean Kurrentshcrift? In that case, yes. Here’s a very neat example from 1917

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@OldNewYork1664 Rensselaer indeed. Van Deusen, Ostrand, Quackenbush line on here: https://t.co/qQ0bJTWLYM

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@OldNewYork1664 Even after political authority ended, thousands of farms in Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia counties remained bound by manorial leases. It wasn’t until the Erie Canal was built that one of my lines was able to head west and finally have land of their own.

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@OldNewYork1664 @sieurdecadillac While it’s from Latin cingulum for belt, see discussion at https://t.co/xhE4mprxBe

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@OldNewYork1664 Happy Easter!

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@OldNewYork1664 Intriguingly similar to Cree namew sipiy - sturgeon river

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@theiaincameron @SeanWSkelton @Age_of_Greed Falls into the worm hole of differences in usage of ironic/ironically between UK and NA.

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@AnthonyFarnell Let’s look at the record….It’S cHiNoOkS aLl ThE wAy DoWn!

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@DannyBate4 Those Ionians had their way with the Euxine Sea as well https://t.co/6RngJ63G2I?