On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.

The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.

A bus stop cuts a lonely figure against the landscape of Dongsha Island. Although the sign identifies it as a Kaohsiung City bus stop, and the official address is part of Kaohsiung's Chichin district, Dongsha Island lies in the South China Sea, about 444km southwest of the city, and is part of the Pratas Islands.

⁽¹⁾ For the mid 1980s I estimate that at least one million adults belong to the ecumenopolitan stratum; several times as many are in the educational stream with ambitions to join them. ⁽²⁾ Iranians were graduated from North American universities with motivations that are virtually indistinguishable from their classmates, but their command of Asian languages and their entrepreneurship generates a backflow of ecumenopolitan commitments to Asia.