by david allan van nostrand | Feb 24, 2025 | Human Behavior, Organizational Behavior, Rituals, The world around us
The first obituaries were published long ago in newspapyri somewhere around the Mediterranean Sea. They were little more than death notices. When someone of great stature died, there would be brief life summaries. Asp Takes Cleo. A Closer Look at Obituaries A month or...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 17, 2025 | Human Behavior, The Wayback Machine
We all know that railroads are networks of parallel steel rails laid upon beds of gravel and wooden crossties. We also know that a railroad is everything that rolls on those rails, and everything it takes to keep people and cargo moving. Underground means just that:...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 10, 2025 | Americana, Marketing, The Wayback Machine
Felix Mendelssohn composed The Wedding March (“Here comes the bride”) for a stage production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sixteen years later, it became a wedding must-have when Queen Victoria’s daughter Victoria chose it to be played at her...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 3, 2025 | Items in the News, The iterative process, The Wayback Machine
Armies must keep their soldiers fed.* When successfully engaged with the enemy, armies keep advancing and their supply lines stretch longer and longer. The French were fighting battles on four fronts back in 1875, each with its own supply line struggling to keep up....
