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buildingsofnewengland.com
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| | | | Possibly my favorite type of building in Maine are the historic Episcopal summer chapels that sprouted up along the coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church of Southport, Maine, an island community with many summer residents. This church had its beginnings when Reverend John Thomas... | |
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skeptic.home.blog
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| | | | God or gods - are: (1) In Christianity and other monotheistic religions, the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being. (2) In certain other religions, a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity, goddess, divine being, celestial being, supreme... | |
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notoneoffbritishisms.com
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| | | | For the purposes of this blog, "British" refers to the British Isles, meaning not only the United Kingdom but Ireland as well. I mention that now because "feck" is of Irish origin, emerging in the nineteenth century as a verb meaning "steal." From Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (1916): "They had... | |
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marcmutz.wordpress.com
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| | I've started a new column, Private Practice, that looks at existing implementations and examines them. The first Private Practice article, Taming Templates, examines techniques to control template code bloat. There's nothing particularly earth-shattering in there, but I noticed that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of the fact that templates can cause... |