A DC.Nerd’s heaven
Shown here, my heaven. On the left, the 1901 District of Columbia Code, through 1924. Next to that, the 1901 Code amended through 1929, followed by five annual supplement volumes. The two
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Pancakes
Here I am two years after my last post sharing about pancakes. I’ll try to get back to more important things but really, pancakes are important, too. When Passover ends and you
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Industry in 1915
“Lack of scientific cost-finding systems in the women’s muslin underwear industry has led to ruinous competition in the industry.” Evening Star, November 26, 1915, page 12.
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Hello from the Office of Public Records
[NB: I’m not actually writing this from OPR. I hope that’s obvious.] Last week I introduced myself to the Friends of the DC Archives. In doing so, I shared my Twitter handle, and thus
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Adopt Prince!
[View the story “Adopt the Prince of the Kittelach” on Storify]
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When your resources aren’t perfect
This post is a bit of a “what would YOU do?” request for input. Let me begin with the background: I am, on behalf of my office, working on a project to
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Notable DC Figures: John Ross
When I’m on track to be on time for work (which happens most of the time now that I have cats waking me up in the morning), my walk to work is
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Confession
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m a big West Wing fan. I popped the first DVD in last night and while pondering questions like “why is CJ being called about