NASCAR -- Great Race -- Kevin Harvick Pushes Kyle Busch Out Of The Way; Wins His 6th Race This Year -- July 22, 2018

The Sports Page

The Open: the final day -- the front nine, incredibly exciting; Tiger Woods appeared to be in the running; the back nine: boring! Molinari of Italy came out of nowhere (sort of) and easily won the tournament.

NASCAR: New Hampshire one-mile oval. Last 44 laps now. Should be over in 22 minutes if no cautions (in a caution now).

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The Ledecky Page

Katie Ledecky is featured on the current issue of National Geographic. More later.

Heart of Glass, Blondie

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The Book Page

I returned the biography of the Mitford girls to the library. I bicycled to the library, about 4 miles each way; the temperature was 103 degrees. But it was a dry heat. Wow, that's hot. Biking is easier than running, and probably even easier than walking. I did not break a sweat, but I did wear a broad-brimmed safari hat.


My "consequential" book for the next week: The Victorians, A. N. Wilson, c. 2003. The heft and feel of the book is awesome. I love the feel of the paper, and love the pitch and font. This should be a fun book; it is a continuation of my "China phase."

Time period:

• parliament burned down in 1934
• Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle, nearing Tierra del Fuego, 1934
• Charles Dicken: Pickwick mania
• Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution; Carlyle -- perhaps the best-loved author of the day
• Princess Victoria becomes queen: 1837
• 1837 - 1844: the worst economic depression that had ever afflicted the British people; and,
• the question: why no revolution in Great Britain; 1848 is known as the Year of Revolutions on the European continent
• and, so I begin.