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Article about the real-life person who was the Jane Roe in the famous American supreme-court court case Roe v. Wade. There was a lot more to her story than I was aware.
Her Name Was Norma by Yasmin Nair
(Via @pastachips on Twitter)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Drew Gardner takes photographs of people done up to look like their famous ancestors. Here’s a particularly poignant example: Shannon LaNier is a many-times-great-grandchild of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his slave.
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Letterform Archive is a museum of typography and type design in San Francisco and now has an online archive.
(Via The Online Archive Is Now Open to All via Brand New: Letterform Archive Online)
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Excerpts from the Economist about diversity and immigration (both human and arboreal), featuring the most diverse district in Africa, the Cockneys of Thetford, and California’s eucalyptus trees.
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Noted by Damian Cugley .
Long read on how the USA includes a lot of territories that we mostly forget about.
