Briefly Noted for 2020-09-12

Ghouls. Ghouls all the way down: Xeni Jardin: Herman Cain, Who Died of Covid-19, Tweets '��e Virus Is Not as Deadly' as Believed https://boingboing.net/2020/08/31/herman-cain-who-died-of-covid.html: ���@THEHermanCain: "It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be. 08:49 8/31/20..." Herman Cain died of COVID-19. That's it. That's the blog post...

The StoryGraph Beta https://beta.thestorygraph.com/

Wikipedia: Henry Bartle Frere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bartle_Frere#Outbreak_of_Zulu_and_Boer_Wars���

Wikipedia: Annette Gordon-Reed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Gordon-Reed���

Wikipedia: History of Grand Central Terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Grand_Central_Terminal#Grand_Central_Depot���

Fire in California: Fire Activity Map https://ucanr.edu/sites/fire/Safety/Current/���

All Turtles https://medium.all-turtles.com/���

Economic History Association: Conference Program and Papers https://eh.net/eha/conference-program-and-papers-4/���

 

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Buce: The Luckiest Horse in the Fifth Millennium BCE https://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2008/08/luckiest-horse-in-fifth-millennium-bce.html: ���David W. Anthony... The Horse, the Wheel, and Language.... he date is about 4800 BCE; the place is in what he chooses to call ���the Pontic-Caspian steppes,��� just above the Caspian Sea. The ���why��� is interesting: apparently not for riding, but for food���horses were big and meaty and could live over the winter in cold climates (riding came later). AS to ���how,��� the flip answer is ���it wasn���t easy,��� which is not surprising when you stop to think of it: horses���or, more precisely, stallions���are a notoriously tricky lot and they wouldn���t take kindly to being stabled or hobbled or slapped into harness. But as to precisely how, the DNA evidence provides a remarkable clue.... "the male aspect of modern horse DNA, which is passed unchanged on the Y chromosome from sire to colt, shows remarkable homogeneity. It is possible that just a single wild stallion was domesticated���. [A] relatively docile and controllable stallion was an unusual individual���and one that had little hope of reproducing in the wild. Horse domestication might have depended on a lucky coincidence: the appearance of a relatively manageable and docile male in a place where humans could use him as a breeder of a domesticated bloodline. From the horse���s perspective, humans were the only way he could get a girl. From the human perspective, he was the only sire they wanted..." So here���s to you, Mr. Lucky, the granddaddy of them all���

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