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1278 – The naval Battle of Algeciras takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in a victory for the Emirate of Granada and the Maranid Dynasty over the Kingdom of Castile.
The Battle of Algeciras was a naval battle which occurred on July 25, 1278. The battle pitted the fleets of the Kingdom of Castile, commanded by the Admiral of Castile, Pedro Martínez de Fe, and the combined fleets of the Marinid dynasty and that of the Emirate of Granada, commanded by Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr. The battle was fought in the context of the Moorish naval expeditions to the Iberian Peninsula. The battle, which took place in the Strait of Gibraltar, resulted in a Muslim victory.

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1165 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher (died 1240)
Ibn Arabi[a] (July 1165–November 1240) was an Andalusian Sunni scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and philosopher who was extremely influential within Islamic thought. Out of the 850 works attributed to him, some 700 are authentic, while over 400 are still extant. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Muslim world.[1]

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Terry Gene Bollea[8][9] (/bəˈleɪə/; August 11, 1953 – July 24, 2025), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his work with WWE and World Championship Wrestling. Known for his flamboyance, massive physique, and his trademark blond horseshoe moustache and bandanas, Hogan was widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide.[10][11]

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Charles Frank Mangione (/mænˈdʒoʊni/ man-JOH-nee;[1] November 29, 1940 – July 22, 2025) was an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and composer. He came to prominence as a member of Art Blakey’s band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap, achieving international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single “Feels So Good”. He released more than 30 albums, beginning in the 1960s.[2] He also appeared in various television shows, including a recurring role on King of the Hill.

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George Jan Kooymans (11 March 1948 – 22 July 2025) was a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He was best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring.[1] Kooymans wrote “Twilight Zone”, the group’s only top 10 entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart.[2]

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On This Day

1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
The battle of Marstrand was a successful Dano-Norwegian siege of the harbor town of Marstrand, Sweden which took place between 6–23 July 1677, during the Scanian War.

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Born On This Day

1401 – Francesco I Sforza, Italian husband of Bianca Maria Visconti (died 1466)[17]
Francesco I Sforza KG (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death. Renowned for his military skill and political acumen, he was among the few condottieri to successfully transform battlefield success into stable dynastic rule.

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James Clear: 3-2-1: On practice, the soap opera of your life, and the danger of choosing the easy path

MessyNessy, Home Alone in Paris & 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 747)

WBUR: Scams targeting writers cheat them out of millions
 
 
 
 

Riley Black – Science Correspondent, Smithsonian: Meet Ten Tyrannosaurs That Came Before T. Rex, From Small, Feathery Creatures to 30-Foot-Long Bone-Crushers Everyone knows the famous tyrant lizard king, but its relatives amaze, too

By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Free Documentary on the Heavy Metal Pioneer (RIP)
 
 
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By Open Culture: The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion
 
 
 
 

Who has the right to die? | James Lee | TEDxAnchorage

Everhouse: Inside Porsche Collector Magnus Walker’s House in Downtown LA
 
 
Magnus Walker (born July 7, 1967)[1] is a British-American fashion designer and car collector. He emigrated to the United States in 1986 at nineteen and eventually established a clothing brand, called Serious, with his second wife, Karen Caid Walker. Having been fascinated with Porsche since childhood, Walker started collecting and customizing vintage Porsches, mostly the air-cooled 911 models. After the documentary Urban Outlaw about his life, Walker became one of the world’s most visible faces of the Porsche and car collecting scene. He has since been featured in a multitude of media, such as The Joe Rogan Experience (2015), Jay Leno’s Garage (2017), and the 2015 video game Need for Speed.

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Go with your gut feeling | Magnus Walker | TEDxUCLA
 
 
 
 

FOX 13 Tampa Bay: Grady Judd on fraud arrests in ‘Operation Teller to Telegram’ investigation

 
 
 
 
Jocko Podcast 500: We Choose To Live.
 
 
 
 
Jack CarrUSA: Ryan Pote Blood and Treasure

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Little House Big Alaska: Mexican Street Corn Pasta Salad with Ham

 
 
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

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On This Day

1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.

The Battle of Falkirk (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr na h-Eaglaise Brice; Scots: Battle o Fawkirk), on 22 July 1298, was one of the major battles in the First War of Scottish Independence. Led by King Edward I of England, the English army defeated the Scots, led by William Wallace. Shortly after the battle Wallace resigned as Guardian of Scotland.[6]

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1478 – Philip I of Castile (died 1506)
Philip the Handsome[a] (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called Philip the Fair, was the first King of Castile from the House of Habsburg (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506. He was also ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, and additionally ruled over the counties of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais from 1493.

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Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (December 12, 1937 – July 16, 2025), known professionally as Connie Francis, was an American pop singer, actress, and one of the top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She was estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

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Bryan Allan Braman (BRAH-mən; May 4, 1987 – July 17, 2025) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Idaho Vandals, Long Beach City College (LBCC), and West Texas A&M Buffaloes before being signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2011. Braman was also a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints. Braman won Super Bowl LII with the Eagles in 2018.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner (August 18, 1970 – July 20, 2025) was an American actor, musician and poet. He rose to prominence for his role as Theodore Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992), which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards. He was also known for his roles as Malcolm McGee on the sitcom Malcolm & Eddie (1996–2000), Dr. Alex Reed in the sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011, 2015), and Dr. AJ Austin in the medical drama The Resident.

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John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025) was an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adopted the nickname “Prince of Darkness”.[5]

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By Mark Gray, People: Dick Van Dyke Thought He’d Die When a Surfing Day Went Awry. But a Pod of Porpoises Came to His Rescue

Emily Petsko Mental Floss: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Donating Your Body to Science

Mushings’ double standards
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Craig Medred: Kings rising
 
 
 
 
Studio No. 237: Official “Nguyen” Documentary US ARMY RANGER & SWAT team member Trung Nguyen
 
 
 
 

Shawn Ryan Show: Isaiah Taylor – CEO of Valar Atomics | SRS #219
 
 
 
 
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Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, the forces of kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, known in Islamic history as the Battle of Al-Uqab (Arabic: معركة العقاب), took place on 16 July 1212 and was an important turning point in the Reconquista and the medieval history of Spain.[13] The Christian forces of King Alfonso VIII of Castile, were joined by the armies of his rivals, Sancho VII of Navarre and Peter II of Aragon, in battle[14] against the Almohad Muslim rulers of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. The caliph al-Nasir (Miramamolín in the Spanish chronicles) led the Almohad army, made up of people from all over the Almohad Caliphate.

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1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (died 1530)[19]
Andrea del Sarto (US: /ɑːnˌdreɪə dɛl ˈsɑːrtoʊ/, UK: /ænˌ-/, Italian: [anˈdrɛːa del ˈsarto]; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altarpieces, portraitist, draughtsman, and colorist.[1] Although highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori (“without errors”), his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

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Nice News: The Annual Beluga Cam Is Now Live — And You Can Join the Ranks as a Citizen Scientist

By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: The Story Told on the Famous Bayeux Tapestry Explained from Start to Finish
 
 
By Open Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
 
 
 
 

Frederick Dreier, Outside Magazine: It Turns Out Chihuahuas Are the Best Trail Dogs Two years after our colleague argued the merits of the tiny dogs, a glacier rescue in Switzerland adds considerable clout to his take
 
 
 
 

CutterLight: Moose Pie & Malbec – a New Adventure
 
 
 
 
Worth listening to.
The FieldCraft Survival Channel: The Death of Fieldcraft Survival
 
 
 
 
Mike Ritland: The Border Breach You Haven’t Heard About – CCP Covert Ops on U.S. Soil | Mike Drop 248
 
 
Mike Ritland: Mix – Robert Plant – Everybody’s Song (Official Music Video) The Shocking Truth About Missing Children in America
 
 
 
 
Jack CarrUSA: From Chicago Prosecutor to FBI SWAT: A Conversation with Jon Dubin
 
 
 
 
Joe Rogan Experience #2350 – Ryan Callaghan
 
 
 
 
A friend shared their thoughts on Paul’s ticket prices…

Recipes

Food Talk Daily: Cheese Slaw – A Favorite Summer Dip

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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1240 – Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
The Battle of the Neva (Russian: Невская битва, romanized: Nevskaya bitva; Swedish: slaget vid Neva; Finnish: Nevan taistelu) was fought between the Novgorod Republic, along with Karelians, and the Kingdom of Sweden,[2] including Norwegian, Finnish and Tavastian forces, on the Neva River, near the settlement of Ust-Izhora, on 15 July 1240. The battle is mentioned only in Russian sources,[3] and it remains unclear whether it was a major invasion or a small-scale raid.[4][5] In Russian historiography, it has become an event of massive scale and importance.[6]

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Born On This Day

1359 – Antonio Correr, Italian cardinal (died 1445)
Antonio Correr (15 July 1359 – 19 January 1445) was a Roman Catholic cardinal who was appointed cardinal by his uncle Pope Gregory XII during the period of the Great Western Schism.

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This Day In History
 
 
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When you’re out there panhandling in the river, occasionally you get a gold nugget.
David Gergen,
US presidential adviser, political commentator, editor, writer
1942-2025

David Richmond Gergen (May 9, 1942 – July 10, 2025) was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.[2] He was later a senior political analyst for CNN[3] and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report[4] and a contributor to CNN and Parade Magazine. He was twice a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards: in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer (now PBS News Hour), and in 2008 with CNN.

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By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: The Entire History of English in 22 Minutes

 
 
 
 
TLDR: Meta’s AI pivot 🤖, ChromeOS Android merger 📱, AWS agentic IDE 👨‍💻

DataByteGo Newsletter: Stop Wasting Time: Here’s How to Prepare Data for AI the Smart Way

 
 
 
 
By Ernie Smith, Tedium: Selling More Than The Drama A new Commodore device hit pre-orders this week after weeks of rumors. But retro is nothing if not its irrational haters.

North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of AlaskaBen Weissenbach
Grand Central Publishing, Jul 15, 2025 – Nature – 320 pages
Hailed as a “worthy successor” to John McPhee (Kirkus Reviews), Ben Weissenbach —a digital native with little prior wilderness experience—embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska with some of the state’s most distinguished and audacious researchers.

At the age of twenty, college student Ben Weissenbach went north to Arctic Alaska armed with little more than inspiration from his literary heroes and a growing interest in climate change. What met him there was a world utterly unlike the 21st century Los Angeles in which he grew up—a land of ice, rock, and grizzlies seen by few outside a small contingent of scientists with big personalities.

There’s Roman Dial, the larger-than-life ecologist with whom Ben walks and rafts a thousand miles across Alaska’s Brooks Range. There’s Kenji Yoshikawa, the reindeer-herding permafrost expert who leaves Ben alone for eleven days to care for his off-grid homestead, where temperatures drop to -49 degrees Fahrenheit. And there’s Matt Nolan, the independent glaciologist who flies him to the largest glaciers in the American Arctic.

As these scientists teach Ben to read Alaska’s warming landscape, he confronts the limits of digital life and the complexity of the world beyond his screens. He emerges from each adventure with a new perspective on our modern relationship to technology and a growing wonder for our fast-changing—ever-changing—natural world.

 
 
 
 
By Craig Medred: National decay

 
 
 
 
Jake Wynn – Public Historian: A speech documents the early history of Williamstown, Pennsylvania | 1876
 
 
Jake Wynn – Public Historian: Recollections and reflections on growing up in Williamstown, Pennsylvania | 2025
 
 
 
 

Workplace Coach Blog: When You Can’t Turn Your Brain Off at Night
 
 
 
 
NSFW
Joe Rogan Experience #2349 – Danny Jones
 
 
Daylight Computer

Recipes

Simply Recipes: Alabama White Sauce Is the Perfect Companion for All Your Grilled Meats
 
 
Taste of Home: Garbage Bread
 
 
Taste of Home: I Recreated the Disney Blue Ribbon Corn Dogs So You Can Have a Taste of Disney at Home
 
 

Simply Recipes: The Creole Spaghetti Recipe I Learned from My Dad

 
 
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Stacy, Carol RT Book Reviews

Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution.[8] Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.[9]
The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]), which occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the Bastille. After four hours of fighting and 94 deaths, the insurgents were able to enter the Bastille. The governor of the Bastille, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and several members of the garrison were killed after surrendering. At the time, the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained only seven inmates at the time of its storming and was already scheduled for demolition but was seen by the revolutionaries as a symbol of the monarchy’s abuse of power. Its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.

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Born On This Day

1515 – Philip I, Duke of Pomerania (died 1560)
Philip I of Pomerania (14 May 1515, in Stettin – 14 February 1560, in Wolgast) was Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast.

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NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day
 
 
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MessyNessy French History but Make it Juicy and 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 746)

By Ed Caesar, The New Yorker: Letter from Europe The First World War, in Sharp Focus An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.
 
 
 
 
By Open Culture: Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)
 
 
By Colin Marshll, Open Culture: How the Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: The Art of Ancient Engineering

Colleen Mondor: Probable Causen #30: Report on Safety Issues with ICE contractor GlobalX
 
 
 
 

Wickersham’s Conscience: Tales from Wasilla: Human Resources Fails

James Scott Bell: JSB’s Whiz Bang #5
 
 
 
 

David Bruns, Two Navy Guys: The Baltic Sea: the next geopolitical hotspot? Watch us turn a news article into a future novel in real-time
 
 
 
 

By Sarah Ramsey, Mashed: Old-School Summer Dishes No One Eats Anymore
 
 
 
 

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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1402 – Nanjing surrenders to Zhu Di without a fight, ending the Jingnan campaign. The Jianwen Emperor disappears and his family is incarcerated.[1]
The Jingnan campaign, or the campaign to clear away disorders, was a three-year civil war from 1399 to 1402 in the early years of the Ming dynasty of China between the Jianwen Emperor and his uncle, Zhu Di, Prince of Yan. The war was sparked by the removal of the emperor’s uncles and the restriction of Zhu Di’s power by the central government after the Jianwen Emperor ascended to the throne in 1398. In 1399, Zhu Di rebelled under the guise of restoring order and the rights of the princes. After three years of fighting, he successfully conquered the capital of Nanjing in June 1402, while the emperor and his family were likely killed in the palace fire. This marked the end of the war.

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1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician and chemist (died 1651)
Arthur Dee (13 July 1579 – September or October 1651) was a physician and alchemist. He became a physician successively to Tsar Michael I of Russia and to King Charles I of England.

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Tim Heffernan, The Wirecutter: Wait … should you filter your tap water?

 
 
 
 
Cutter Light: Premium Salmonberries

The Jerusalem Post: Greenland’s ancient sled dogs reveal unique genetic lineage Despite historical accounts, study finds minimal wolf ancestry in Qimmeq sled dogs.

How a dashed dream in Anchorage helped inspire ESPN journalist Seth Wickersham’s 2nd book
The longtime football enthusiast turned professional journalist went from being a self-described failed high school quarterback in Alaska to a New York Times bestselling author.

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CBS Sunday Morning: Student’s unique talent that’s for the birds
 
 
 
 

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Brad Williams: Daddy Issues
 
 
 
 

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The Worst Kind of Child Support There Is – Trae Crowder

Recipes

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Stacy, Carol RT Book Reviews

Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
Yagan (/ˈjeɪɡən/; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler’s servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them.[1][2][3] The government offered a bounty for Yagan’s capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. Yagan is considered a legendary figure by the Noongar.[4][5]

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1459 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (died 1527)
Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Veldenz (11 July 1459 – c. Summer 1527) was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1489 to 1490.

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FYI

 
 
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By Aaron Gulley, Outside: How to Plan a Successful Road Trip

Mia McPherson’s On The Wing Photography: Northern Mockingbird Chick With A Big Attitude
 
 
 
 
Wickersham’s Conscience: Happy Wild Horse Day
 
 
Wickersham’s Conscience: Charismatic Megafauna: Blue Wildebeest
 
 
 
 

ILSR’s Community Broadband Initiative: Recently in Community Networks… Week of 7/7

Shawn Ryan Show: Augustus Doricko – Did Cloud Seeding Cause the Texas Floods? | SRS #217
 
 
 
 

Mike Force Podcast: Our Combat Veterans need help | a wife’s perspective
 
 
 
 

Cleared Hot Podcast: Full Auto Friday – 7/11/2025

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Book Blogs & Websites:

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Stacy, Carol RT Book Reviews

Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
The Battle of Sempach was fought on 9 July 1386, between Leopold III, Duke of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy. The battle was a decisive Swiss victory in which Duke Leopold and numerous Austrian nobles died. The victory helped turn the loosely allied Swiss Confederation into a more unified nation and is seen as a turning point in the growth of Switzerland.

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1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
The Battle of Northampton was fought on 10 July 1460[2] near the River Nene, Northamptonshire. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou and their six-year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales, on one side, and the army of Edward, Earl of March, and Warwick the Kingmaker on the other. The battle was the first in which artillery was used in England.[3]

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1526 – Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (died 1545)
Elizabeth of Austria (Polish: Elżbieta Habsburżanka, Lithuanian: Elžbieta Habsburgaitė; 9 July 1526 – 15 June 1545) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary.[1] A member of the House of Habsburg, she was married to Sigismund II Augustus, who was already crowned as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania even though both of his parents were still alive and well. The marriage was short and unhappy. Elizabeth was of frail health, experiencing epileptic seizures, and died at age 18.

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1501 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (died 1572)
Jo Sik (Korean: 조식; Hanja: 曺植; July 10, 1501 – February 21, 1572) was a Korean philosopher, poet, and politician during the Joseon period. He was a Neo-Confucian scholar who had a major influence on the Easterners and the Northerners.

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FYI

 
 
NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day
 
 
EarthSky News
 
 
This Day in Tech History
 
 
This Day In History
 
 
Interesting Facts
 
 
Word Genius: Word of the Day
 
 
Wise Trivia
 
 
Condolences

Retired Lt. Colonel Jona McKee, who served in three wars, dies at 97
 
 
 
 
James Clear: 3-2-1: On daily discomfort, the power of acting early, and life’s greatest pleasure
 
 
James Clear: 3-2-1: On enthusiasm, playing to your strengths, and living one day at a time
 
 
James Clear: 3-2-1: On finding the best way to do something, how timing shapes communication, and making unreasonable requests
 
 
 
 
MessyNessy: The plan is there is no plan

By MessyNessy, 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 745): Word of the day: Xylarium – Library of Wood; Rabbit charioteer from Ancient Rome, riding a chariot pulled by geese, Tivoli, 2nd century AD; Motorcycle chariots, 1936; Real Places with Ridiculously Depressing Names; Dr. Seuss’s Little-Known “Adult” Book of Nudes; Meet the longest running advice columnist in history; Now that Parisians are swimming in the Seine again, here’s a look back: and more ->

By Matt Goff, Sitka Nature: Beaver Lake Uplands

 
 
 
 
The Marginalian by Maria Popova: Uncaging the bird in the mind, the two kinds of seeing, and a defense of joy in a world rife with reasons for despair,

 
 
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: Paradise Lost Explained: How John Milton Wrote His Epic Religious Poem from Satan’s Perspective
 
 
By Open Culture: Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)
 
 
 
 
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By Hope Corrigan, PC Gamer: I Just Found Out What Wi-Fi Means and It’s Sending Me It’s almost certainly not what you think.

 
 
 
 
Sun Sentinel: Book review: Florida and Alaska landscapes vital to plot of ‘Cold Burn’ thriller

Joe Rogan Experience #2348 – Lukas Nelson
 
 
 
 

LIVE: Grady Judd news conference on ‘swatting’ arrests
 
 
 
 

Jack CarrUSA: From Baghdad to Bestsellers: A Conversation with Alex Berenson
 
 
 
 
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?

On This Day

1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew’s death.
Jordan II (Italian: Giordano) (born c. 1080 – died 19 December 1127) was the third son of Prince Jordan I of Capua and Princess Gaitelgrima, a daughter of Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno. He was, from at least May 1109, the lord of Nocera, and, after June 1120, Prince of Capua. The date and place of his birth are unknown, but it must have been later than 1080. He was married, before 1113, to Gaitelgrima, daughter of Sergius, Prince of Sorrento, a union which allowed him to extend his influence down the Amalfi coast from his castle at Nocera.[1]

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1594 – Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka.
The Kingdom of Kandy was a monarchy on the island of Sri Lanka, located in the central and eastern portion of the island. It was founded in the late 15th century and endured until the early 19th century.[1]

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1415 – Jan Hus is condemned by the assembly of the council in the Konstanz Cathedral as a heretic and sentenced to be burned at the stake.[2]
Jan Hus (/hʊs/; Czech: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ⓘ; c. 1369 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation. Hus is considered to be the first Church reformer, even though some designate the theorist John Wycliffe.[a][2][3][4][5] His teachings had a strong influence, most immediately in the approval of a reformed Bohemian religious denomination and, over a century later, on Martin Luther.

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1330 – Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shōgun (died 1367)
Ashikaga Yoshiakira (足利 義詮; July 4, 1330 – December 28, 1367) was the second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1358 to 1367 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshiakira was the son of the founder and first shōgun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Takauji. His mother was Akahashi Tōshi (赤橋登子), also known as Hōjō Nariko.[1]

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1029 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (died 1094)[15]
Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Mustanṣir biʾllāh (Arabic: أبو تميم معد المستنصر بالله‎; 2 July 1029 – 29 December 1094)[b] was the eighth Fatimid Caliph from 1036 until 1094. He was one of the longest reigning Muslim rulers.[10] His reign was the twilight of the Fatimid state. The start of his reign saw the continuation of competent administrators running the Fatimid state (Anushtakin, al-Jarjara’i, and later al-Yazuri), overseeing the state’s prosperity in the first two decades of al-Mustansir’s reign. However, the break out of court infighting between the Turkish and Berber/Sudanese court factions following al-Yazuri’s assassination, coinciding with natural disasters in Egypt and the gradual loss of administrative control over Fatimid possessions outside of Egypt, almost resulted in the total collapse of the Fatimid state in the 1060s, before the appointment of the Armenian general Badr al-Jamali, who assumed power as vizier in 1073, and became the de facto dictator of the country under the nominal rule of al-Mustansir.[2][1][4]

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1623 – Jacopo Melani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1676)
Jacopo Melani (6 July 1623 – 18 August 1676) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born and died in Pistoia, and was the brother of composer Alessandro Melani and singer Atto Melani.

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FYI

 
 
NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day
 
 
EarthSky News
 
 
This Day in Tech History
 
 
This Day In History
 
 
Interesting Facts
 
 
Word Genius: Word of the Day
 
 
Wise Trivia
 
 

By Ernie Smith, Tedium: Neutralizing Drones
 
 
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovations Across Three Million Years
 
 

By Open Culture: Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read

 
 
 
 
Colion Noir: FAFO: Arrogant Robber Shot Dead After Homeowner Tried To Give Him A Chance To Leave

Mike Rowe: Happy Birthday, America! | A Star-Spangled PSA

Jocko Podcast: Independence Day: The Song Of America
 
 
 
 

“Terminal ballistics are a b*tch.”
Nick Irving
“Megan Thee Stallion Didn’t Get Shot” – Sniper Nick Irving
 
 
 
 

Ideas

By sokamon: Mini Beaded Flowers Bouquets
 
 
 
 

Recipes

By In The Kitchen With Matt: Easy Basic Chicken Salad
 
 
Homemade on a Weeknight: A Collection of Egg Recipes
 
 
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Indie Bound

Love Swept & The Smitten Word

Mystery & Thriller Most Wanted

Pixel of Ink

The Rock Stars of Romance

Book Blogs & Websites:

Alaskan Book Cafe

Alternative-Read.com

Stacy, Carol RT Book Reviews

Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!

Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.

Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?