FYI June 13, 2025

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On This Day

1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.[7]
The siege of St. Augustine was a military engagement that took place during June–July 1740. It involved a British attack on the city of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida and was a part of the much larger conflict known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear.

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Born On This Day

1367 – Taejong of Joseon (died 1422)
Taejong (Korean: 태종; Hanja: 太宗; 16 May 1367 – 10 May 1422),[a][b] personal name Yi Pangwŏn (이방원; 李芳遠), was the third monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea and the father of Sejong the Great.[1] He was the fifth son of King Taejo, the founder of the dynasty. Before ascending to the throne, he was known as Grand Prince Jeongan (정안군; 靖安君).

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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 David Sherry, Morning Coffee: Today’s Media Apps RIP to Pocket and Arc Browser

 
 
 
 

By Zachary B. Hancock, Evolution: Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes

 
 
 
 

By Tom Hawking, Popular Science: The science behind the smell of rain A story of bacteria, arthropods, and two very smelly organic compounds.
 
 
 
 

By Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics: This Truck Is Stealing Hearts Across the Country. But It’s Still Illegal in 19 States.

 
 
 
 

The National WASP WWII Museum
 
 
 
 

Courtesy of Helen Hegener

Northern Light Media publishes books about the history of Alaska and the Yukon Territory (actually including most of western Canada), and occasionally publishes books on other topics by authors whose writing might be of interest to our readers. There are close to thirty books in our published library now, and 18 issues of Alaskan History Magazine.

Learn more ->

https://open.substack.com/pub/northernlightmedia/p/nlm-books-792?r=1dek9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

 
 
 
 
Joe Rogan Experience #2337 – Oliver Anthony

 
 
 
 

Cleared Hot Podcast: Full Auto Friday – 6/13/2025

 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Mirror your treehouse!



 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Ideas

By Courtney: DIY Weed Killer
 
 
By Courtney: 6 Ways to Prevent Garden Pests
 
 
 
 

Recipes

By Betty Crocker Kitchens: Desserts Just for Dad
 
 
The kitchn: No-Bake Boston Cream Pie Bars
 
 
Simply Recipes: Ingredient Frozen Graham Cracker Sandwiches
 
 
Just the Recipe: Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
 
 
DamnDelicious
 
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

E-book Deals:

 

BookGorilla

The Book Blogger List

BookBub

The Book Junction: Where Readers Go To Discover Great New Fiction!

Books A Million

Digital Book Spot

eBookSoda

eBooks Habit

FreeBooksy

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?

Quotes Jun3 13, 2025

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
Robert Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 
 
 
“Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.”
Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
 
 
 
 

FYI June 12, 2025

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On This Day

1206 – The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi Sultanate.[2]
The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries.[17][18][19] The sultanate was established around c. 1206–1211 in the former Ghurid territories in India. The sultanate’s history is generally divided into five periods: Mamluk (1206–1290), Khalji (1290–1320), Tughlaq (1320–1414), Sayyid (1414–1451), and Lodi (1451–1526). It covered large swaths of territory in modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, as well as some parts of southern Nepal.[20]

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Born On This Day

1519 – Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1574)
Cosimo I de’ Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second and last duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Cosimo I succeeded his cousin to the duchy. He built the Uffizi (office) to organize his administration, and conquered Siena to consolidate Florence’s rule in Tuscany. He expanded the Pitti Palace and most of the Boboli Gardens were also laid out during his reign.

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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

Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, singer, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century. His best-known work is distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. He was also known for his versatile head voice and falsetto, which degraded after the 1970s.

Learn more ->

 
 
Brian Wilson.com
 
 
 
 
Condolences

Sylvester Stewart (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of psychedelic soul and funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that “James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it,” and credited him with “creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds”.[3] Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the “progressive soul” movement.[4]

Learn more ->

 
 
Sly Stone Music
 
 
 
 
James Clear: 3-2-1: On time machines, principles for high performance, and the trap of titles
 
 
 
 

Open Culture: Read the Original 32-Page Program for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson
 
 
Remember the Bic Banana?
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: How the BIC Cristal Ballpoint Pen Became the Most Successful Product in History

 
 
 
 

Victoria Gill, BBC News: Does Feeding Garden Birds Do More Harm Than Good?

 
 
 
 

The War Horse: Who’s Winning the Multibillion Dollar Battle Over Veterans Benefits? And more ->
 
 
 
 

Condolences
Craig Medred: Life in Anchorage

 
 
 
 
Go Florida!
Florida sheriff holds immigration news conference
 
 
 
 

Joe Rogan Experience #2336 – Ken Burns
 
 
 
 

Shawn Ryan Show: Alexandr Wang – CEO, Scale AI | SRS #208
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Recipes

Simply Recipes: My 2-Ingredient Salmon Is Restaurant-Worthy
 
 
Taste of Home: Slow-Cooker Korean Beef
 
 
Just the Recipe: Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
 
 
DamnDelicious
 
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

E-book Deals:

 

BookGorilla

The Book Blogger List

BookBub

The Book Junction: Where Readers Go To Discover Great New Fiction!

Books A Million

Digital Book Spot

eBookSoda

eBooks Habit

FreeBooksy

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?

Quotes June 12, 2025

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside … Nature brings solace in all troubles.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.”
Abby Wambach
 
 
 
 
“The true measure of a man is not to be nominated & still show up to read a list of names of those who are nominated. That’s a big man. That’s a big, big man.”
Comedian Larry David
 
 
 
 
“Always cry for love, never cry for pain.”
Prince Rogers Nelson, from “Sometimes It Snows in April”
 
 
 
 
“Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.”
Anne Bancroft
 
 
 
 
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden
 
 
 
 
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Change, although it involves risks, is the law of life.”
Bobby Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
Philosopher William James
 
 
 
 

Music June 12, 2025

Van Morrison – Remembering Now (Official Visualiser)
 
 
 
 
Old Dominion – Water My Flowers (Official Visualizer)
 
 
 
 
KalisaHowl: Will I Ever See You Again
 
 
 
 
Eurozia: “Black & White Dreams” 🎶 A Theatrical Gothic Blues-Rock Ballad
 
 
 
 
“Lord I Hope This Day Is Good” Lukas Nelson performed live at the Ryman for the Americana Awards.
 
 
 
 

Music June 11, 2025

Hal Ketchum Austin City Limits 1992
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 11, 2025

Different strokes for different folks.
Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart),
singer, songwriter, musician, producer
1943-2025
 
 
 
 
I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard working guy.
Brian Wilson
1942-2025
 
 
 
 
Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, live truly and forgive quickly.
Paulo Coelho – Author
 
 
 
 
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.
Steven Furtick – Pastor
 
 
 
 
“The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.”
Ruby Dee
 
 
 
 
The discussion in the longevity space is often focused on the wrong thing. People devote a lot of time talking about things like Ashwagandha or full-body scans when, compared to sleep, diet, and exercise, these are going to make only tiny incremental differences.”
Brent Franson, CEO of Death Clock, on misconceptions in the longevity conversation
 
 
 
 

Quotes June 10, 2025

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut,
writer
1922-2007
 
 
 
 
I have no regrets. Regrets are a waste of time.
I don’t think about the passage of time, just what I’m doing with it.
Loretta Swit,
actor, animal rights activist
1937-2025
 
 
 
 
At certain crucial moments — an emergency, an opportunity — one must act first and think later.
Edmund White,
writer, playwright
1940-2025
 
 
 
 
Challenges: I love them more than anything else.
Giorgio Armani,
fashion designer
 
 
 
 
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
writer, poet, editor
 
 
 
 
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 

Music June 10, 2025

The Doobie Brothers – Walk This Road (Full Album) [Official Video]
 
 
 
 

FYI June 09, 2025

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On This Day

1311 – Duccio’s Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
The Maestà, or Maestà of Duccio, is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in Tuscany in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna[1] and is his major work.[2] Duccio’s Maestà was the first altarpiece to have both a front and back side.[3] The front panels make up a large enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and angels, and a predella of the Childhood of Christ with prophets.


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Born On This Day

1580 – Daniel Heinsius, Belgian poet and scholar (died 1655)
Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 1580 – 25 February 1655) was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.

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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 Colin Marshall, Open Culture: The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved?
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: When the State Department Used Dizzy Gillespie and Jazz to Fight the Cold War (1956)
 
 
 
 
ILSR’s Community Broadband Initiative: Recently in Community Networks… Major BEAD Program Changes

Last Friday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released new guidance for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program that restructures the program in significant ways, just as funds were going out the door.

At 4pm ET today, we’ll go live for a special episode of Connect This! to digest what we know so far, with the help of a panel of national industry experts.

Read below for more.

Learn more ->

https://mailchi.mp/442ca6298ac1/recently-in-community-networks-week-of-9206142?
 
 
 
 
Craig Medred: Beautiful & deadly

 
 
 
 
Shawn Ryan Show: Augustus Doricko – CEO of Rainmaker: Manipulating the Weather | SRS #207

 
 
 
 
Cleared Hot Podcast: Episode 390 – Jim Prabhu
 
 
 
 

Ideas

By Sarah Ashley: Zipper Scrunchie
 
 
By tech_nickk: Radar-Based Home Security System Using RD-03D and ESP32-C6
 
 
Jenn @ Acorns & Twigs: Red, white, and… wool?

 
 
 
 

Recipes

Food Talk Daily: Beef Enchilada Casserole Recipe, 5Ingredient Simple
 
 
the kitchn: Every Time I Make This No-Bake “Chocolate Chip Cookie Delight,” Someone Asks Me for the Recipe
 
 
By In The Kitchen With Matt: You Won’t Want to Make Your Box Mix Brownies Any Other Way After Trying THIS!
 
 
Just the Recipe: Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
 
 
DamnDelicious
 
 


 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

E-book Deals:

 

BookGorilla

The Book Blogger List

BookBub

The Book Junction: Where Readers Go To Discover Great New Fiction!

Books A Million

Digital Book Spot

eBookSoda

eBooks Habit

FreeBooksy

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?