For sure. Maybe someone can chime in with an actual historian. All I have on my shelf is this Playfair one from 1783, taken from Tufte’s discussions on the origins of graphs:

Hold my beer, says cineplex.com

This still feels like the motive for much of Trump 1st month activity (tariffs, doge): change budget by $2trillion, make the 2018 tax cuts permanent - otherwise, they expire this year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cut...

Rare asperitas clouds over Ottawa in the late afternoon

Fascinating globe op-ed on the history of Canadian R&D funding. The near-total absence of industry takeup of grads… feels very familiar and real. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Some sources do claim he really is a native Esperanto speaker, but that’s disputed by the memoir’s translator.

Oh John Hodgman, your fake trivia is funny! A native Esperanto speaker! As if!

Wait… his father really did publish his Holocaust memoirs in Esperanto…!?