The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) invites us all to the inaugural digital even series:
Recommending Romance!
Host: romance blogger Kat Mayo; guest romance author @O_Waite, organized by scholar Carly Bennett
This Friday September 8 at 9PM Greenwich Time
It's giving sun-poisoning or that new fancy version of COVID that nobody has tests for. Throbbing headache, aches, im exhausted and I'm pissing like a Roman fountain.
Appel à contributions | Le christianisme aux frontières. Quelques études de cas des périodes romaine et tardo-antique | Frontière·s, supplément 3, 2025
Coordination : Dominic Moreau (Univ. Lille, HALMA, coordinateur du projet DANUBIUS)
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“so much of the writing submitted (and selected) peeks through the cracks of doors, pushes boundaries, asks the reader to step out of the known and comfortable… these are haunted pages. There are many, many ghosts.”
—from the editors’ intro to NWS41
Constitution Quiz of the Week!
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Sept. 1, 1787, the debate included a simple & important aspect of the separation of powers that was later codified in Article I, Section 6.
(1)
In May of 1787, James Madison’s Virginia Plan advanced the same concept in Resolutions 4 and 5 of his Virginia Plan when he proposed the members of the House and Senate should “be __________ any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States” except service in the House or Senate.
A. Welcomed into
B. Ineligible to
C. Able to hold
N628TS (Elon’s main jet the Gulfstream G650) appears to be in maintenance. This is the reason for lack of updates. It appears he is currently using SpaceX’s other jet N272BG.