Yoni Wilkenfeld

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@secondmentions “the unleavened bread”

https://t.co/yo4iFNgVOn

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Wagner’s Ring premiere -- the original Fyre Fest?

Tchaikovsky writing in 1876: “One can only obtain a piece of bread, or a glass of beer, with immense difficulty… Anarchy reigns at these meals; everyone is calling and shrieking, and the exhausted waiters pay no heed”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

“Pingu” is a stop-​motion children’s television show about the titular character, a penguin tyke who lives with his family in a little igloo village at the South Pole. It teaches everyone, even adults, to find meaning in made-up language.
https://t.co/zHWHloUI5d

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EU foreign policy chief Borrell today:
“Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer, not a nuclear answer but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian Army will be annihilated”

[Bałagan @balagannews]

Decision in Grabowski and Engelking case: authors must apologize for their historical claims but do not have to pay compensation, as reported by @OnetWiadomosci: https://t.co/4Vdq8Cq7Wp

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@GabrielRom1 @thedeadestkid

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@moma_ps2 @SmilingObject (savage)

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Popular vote %, losing incumbent presidents:

Cleveland: 48.5% (reelected four years later)
Ford: 48.0%
Trump: ~47.7%
Van Buren: 46.8%
JQ Adams: 43.6%
Harrison: 43.0%
Carter: 41.0%
Hoover: 39.7%
Adams: 38.6%
HW Bush: 37.4%

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@moma_ps2 @SmilingObject wikipedia: "As Frances Cleveland left the White House, she told a staff member, "Now, Jerry, I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again.""

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@RubensteinAdam @DebMalamud mazel tov!!

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@GabrielRom1 @randysplaybook already on it! saw some great stuff this am. @randysplaybook do you bird?

[Yoni Wilkenfeld @yoniwilkenfeld]

"The gradients now reach to infinity" — a perfect tribute to Lee Konitz, by @adlermusic

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Hamlet in Yiddish, 1890s NYC, starring Bertha Kalich: "The only other woman ever to have undertaken the role of Hamlet was Sarah Bernhardt...we will do everything possible to help her play this difficult role to perfection" @NYPL_Archives @yivoinstitute @folksbiene

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Mid-1920 US election season, re-running editorials from @DMRegister: “It is commonly said that the Middle Western opinion in America takes no account of European affairs….there is a great fund of goodwill everywhere in America—but, of course, the politicians never speak of it”

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Great find in @NYPL_Archives — The New Europe, 1916-1920. With antiwar feeling rising, a gang of British intellectuals started a weekly magazine to “to unmask the great designs of German war policy” and support the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1/

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they were not above the occasional subtweet: "the discussion of any Slavonic problem without reference to Russian opinion resembles a performance of Hamlet without the Prince” 4/

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All that and more over @JSTOR_Daily:

https://t.co/RshJiZDD3y

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my latest in @JSTOR_Daily: market tensions, a growing trade deficit and China on the rise — in 1844. On the first US-China trade deal, the Treaty of Wanghia 1/ https://t.co/RshJiZDD3y

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The end result — a "treaty of peace, amity and commerce" — was signed by US envoy Caleb Cushing and Imperial High Commissioner Qiying in 1844. It was the first trade deal between China and a Western power not preceded by war 5/