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19th Amendment

Friday, 27 August 2010

August 26, 2010 was the 90^th anniversary of the passage of the 19^th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. An interesting article on the history of the event is here.

On June 10^th, 1919 Wisconsin became the first state to ratify it. Mississippi was the last state to. That was in 1984.

One Mississippi legislator who opposed ratification was heard to say “What’s next? Sheep?!?”

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San Francisco

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

We’re going to San Francisco for four days in September. We have never been.

In preparation I am re-reading Dashiell Hammet’s 1930 classic crime novel, The Maltese Falcon. It really is a good story if you like that sort of thing. We plan to visit the spot on Bush & Stockton where Miles Archer was shot.

At the end of the book when the bird is revealed to be a forgery, Gutman says that since he has been looking for it for seventeen years, one more year wouldn’t matter. Hammet makes the point of Gutman calculating and saying it would amount to only “five and fifteen seventeenths per cent.”

When I read that I had to stop and do the math, because that isn’t at all how I would estimate what 1 part in 17 is.

I would think that 1/17 is a little bigger than 1/18, and that’s half of 1/9. Since 1/9 = 0.1111, half would be 0.055555 or 5.55%, making 1/17 a little more than that (actually 5.882%)

But Gutman calculated that 1/17 is 100/17% Since 85/17 = 5, 100/17 = 85/17 + 15/17 or 5 &15/17%

Anyway, we’re looking forward to the trip.

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Jack Horkheimer, RIP

Monday, 23 August 2010

Jack Horkheimer, the host of Star Gazer, died. He was 72.

He had a cousin who had a barber shop on 72^nd & North avenue near our house.

“Keep looking up!”

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