Whole Lotta Quaking Going On - For Indiana!

Up early clipping stuff for the blog, then off to church. More working on the blog when I got back from church. A short nap, then I cleaned the bathroom and fixed dinner and worked my way through the email.

I just came back from a convenience store run, and decided to finish this off and then finish Hard Times. That is, instead of revising further "Theresa Pressley." I did some looking, and it needs some fixing. I will put that off.

I did not notice the earthquake: Dozens Report Shaking as Earthquake Rattles Indiana

Dozens of people used the “Did you feel it?” web reporting tool to let USGS know they felt the latest earthquake to strike in the eastern United States. According to USGS, a magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck near the town of Cynthiana, Indiana which is northwest of Evansville and not far from the state lines with Illinois and Tennessee. The earthquake struck last night at 10:06 pm from a depth of 18.8 km. This is the 8th earthquake to strike the area in the last 21 days, with most of the earthquakes occurring closer to the heart of the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri.

I am not sure when Indiana acquired a border with Tennessee. 

Feeling sorry for Bruce Lee: The Legacy of Bruce Lee’s Sex Life (JSTOR Daily.)

There is a story in this, even if it makes me think of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman: The Swashbuckling Tudor Mercenary Who Was Killed in a Battle That Claimed the Lives of Three 16th-Century Kings.

History never stops, is never really past us: New book "Ring of Fire" rediscovers WWI’s global story (Big Think).

Written by historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst, Ring of Fire distinguishes itself from previous works on the subject in significant ways. Whereas scholarship — including Barbara Tuchman’s 1963 Pulitzer Prize-winner The Guns of August — has often treated the war like a real-life Game of Thrones, Eberholst and Churchill largely operate outside the corridors of power. They instead chronicle the war from the perspective of the 99%: soldiers, students, and urban workers as opposed to emperors and generals.

Ring of Fire also stands apart in its geographic scope. Much of what has been written about the war focuses on Europe, especially the Western Front. Eberholst and Churchill instead pull their camera back to view the conflict on a global scale. From South America to West Africa, they examine how military and financial needs of the European powers changed the relationships between them and their colonies, inadvertently paving the way for post-war decolonization movements.

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