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Great fortunes are notoriously easy to lose. Not so for the nation’s 25 richest clans, who’ve bucked the odds and held onto their wealth over generations, in some cases since the late 1800s. Collectively they are worth $722 billion this year, $11 billion less than the top 25 were a year ago. These scions and builders of America’s great businesses own brands like Campbell Soup CPB -0.71%, Windex, Hyatt Hotels H +1.32%, OxyContin and more. Among this elite group are familiar families like the Waltons and Rockefellers and lesser-knowns like the Sacklers. One newcomer is likely the least known of … Continue reading →

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This a response to an editorial appearing at WacoTrib.com where the author deems the unfathomable idea of Texas independence as “crazy” and believes there are “more pressing topics” for Texans to consider. To his credit, the author offers a number of questions to communicate his healthy skepticism. I attempt to address those questions: “Would we Texans need passports to visit Disney World, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon or the Redwoods National Park?” You might very well need them (that’s up to the USG), but if you fly to Disney World or anywhere else now, you need to show your ID … Continue reading →

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If you have an iPhone, chances are you’ve used a recognition app like Shazam if you’ve ever heard a song you liked and wanted to identify the artist. These recognition apps seem like magic, giving you a definitive answer in just seconds and providing a link to purchase the music you’ve just heard. Once, while on a hike in the Hudson Valley with a friend, we joked that there should be a Shazam app for nature. At the time we were both living in NYC and we felt a big disconnect from the plants and animals we were seeing around … Continue reading →

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Overall, Louis’s diplomacy and warfare with the Slavs in the decade after Verdun demonstrate his determination to reestablish the traditional Carolingian tributary lordship over the Slavs as well as the considerable obstacles to this policy. Taken from Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817 – 876, by Eric J. Goldberg. Louis the German is grandson of Charlemagne and ruler of the eastern kingdom (and sometimes more, depending on his relative power and standing with his father, Louis the Pious).  To his east are the troublesome Slavs. Apropos to this time of Brexit and consistent with my … Continue reading →

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