White or colored: unequal penetrations of the differential stain
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“Grip” (noun) means “suitcase.” In 1905 Samuel Crumbine, a Kansas public health officer, came up with the term “flyswatter” during a baseball game when the guys in the stands were yelling “Swat the fly!”
Yes, as in fly ball. The invention was originally called fly killer or fly bat.
Küss’ die Hand
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https://youtu.be/j9qLfyLowjg?list=RDj9qLfyLowjg
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https://www.batcon.org/bat/craseonycteris-thonglongyai-2/
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Image source: Anonymous online, so far as I’ve been able to find. I’ve made a few adjustments in Photoshop.
Metaphor: the posture of subaqueous scum
“In order to win, politicians break their first principles. They abandon their righteous philosophies and sink into a scum position.”*
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* Political theorist Anthony Scaramucci, quoted in Ryan Mancini, “Scaramucci compares Ramaswamy to pigs in ‘Animal Farm,’ predicts loss.” The Hill, October 25, 2026, https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6170719-scaramucci-animal-farm-ramaswamy/
Logan Valley
Crystalline
Through summer flowers to the past
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Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway, Car 71, Altoona, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1952. National Railway Historical Society, https://nrhs.com/gallery-item/altoona-and-logan-valley-electric-railway-altoona-pennsylvania-car-71-august-30-1952-ara-mesrobian-photograph/ Photograph by Ara Mesrobian restored.
Rapid transit
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Source of the small image: Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway, Car 71, Altoona, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1952. National Railway Historical Society, https://nrhs.com/gallery-item/altoona-and-logan-valley-electric-railway-altoona-pennsylvania-car-71-august-30-1952-ara-mesrobian-photograph/ Photograph by Ara Mesrobian restored.
A genetics of the word
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