Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I just broke down half a dozen cardboard boxes if you need something to practice on . . . 110
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I started watching it on its first run in high school because I was taking Latin, and my family weren't interested in such nerdy TV. The first time they walked into the TV room while it was on was during Messalina's sex competition. 030
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I feel like this (from Auden's September 1, 1939) is going to be the job description for quite a while: 1103
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Interesting (and heartrending) timeline serendipity. 0223
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9lh...youtube.comSigns - The Five Man Electrical Band 1971YouTube video by 60s70sTheBest 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 27/08/2026There was a time when I thought Kafka and Orwell made things up. 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 10/08/2026And also of archivists, which I didn't know until last year! 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 07/08/2026You may be looking for more in-depth and/or scholarly sources, but the 1619 Project essay by Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a great overview. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe Barbaric History of Sugar in America (Published 2019)How sugar became the “white gold” that fueled slavery — and an industry that continues to exploit black lives to this day. 020
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I once heard a lecture by an eminent women's historian who had asked her mother (born in the 19th century) what the most important invention of her lifetime was. Her answer? Detergent. 020
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I once stopped reading a certain mystery novelist because one of her characters, a supposed expert in medieval manuscripts, translated the words, "Dies irae, dies illa," as "day of wrath, day of judgment." (I'm no Latin expert, but, really.) 161
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 22/07/2026via languagecollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/2015/08/14/t... The picture bible of Ludwig Denig depicts the martyrdom of John the Baptist this way: 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have seen it in student papers, but rarely. And I only recall one instance of "nip it in the butt." 020
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We sang about them in grade school: youtu.be/vsGJm10nJ6w?...youtu.beBurl Ives - Way Down Yonder In The Paw Paw PatchYouTube video by WJMTV 010
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I saw the image before reading any of the text and my first thought was, That looks like something Sarah would like. 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Wales seems to bring out the epic in people. Thanks for this--I don't think I've ever heard of her. 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Or, they’re the remnants of the bridge the giant Finn MacCool built to Scotland. Choose your own adventure. 0231
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 03/07/2026"Gaudeamus Igitur" sung by Mario Lanza in The Student Prince (1954). Gaudeamus igitur, Iuvenes dum sumus! (So, let us rejoice While we are young.) 190
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 26/06/2026How about instead they hire one of the excellent reporters already in Ohio reporting on these issues, instead of having someone parachute in and try to understand in a week of reporting a situation that took decades to develop (cf. recent New Yorker article on Steubenville)? 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 26/06/2026*Tiger Beat on the Potomac*, as Charlie Pierce has indelibly dubbed them. 050
Reposted by Una CadeganKeanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 15/06/2026If I were leadership in Iran, I'd read discontent with the forthcoming deal as confirmation that many people thought Iran could have come out stronger. If this actually goes through, this will have been the profoundest foreign policy defeat in American history after Iraq (2003) and Vietnam (1975). 161
Reposted by Una Cadeganjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/06/2026the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...nytimes.comScott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’ 299130942879
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Someone advised me a long time ago to say "Je vous empris" a lot, and I think it helps. 020
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Different level of intensity, I realize, but I could not follow my godson into the world of Robert Jordon. I read one book and said, I'm done--I love you, but I'll meet you on the other side. And I did. 010
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Yes, and in a different speech, "The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there." 010
Reposted by Una CadeganVoteHub @votehub.com · 20/05/2026Pennsylvania U.S. House District 3 Dem Primary – CALLED for Rabb 82% Reported: 🔵 Christopher Rabb – 52,349 (43.3%) 🔵 Sharif Street – 35,915 (29.7%) 🔵 Ala Stanford – 30,031 (24.8%) Votes from @DecisionDeskHQ 0338
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Laudato si mi Signore, per sora nostra Morte corporale, da la quale nullu homo uiuente pò skappare: guai a quelli ke morrano ne le peccata mortali; beati quelli ke trouarà ne le Tue sanctissime uoluntati, ka la morte secunda no 'l farrà male. 110
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 14/05/2026One of the all-time greatest books about American culture: 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Also her Reading in America: Literature and Social History 030
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Cathy N. Davidson, Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America (OUP 2004) 130
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I used it in my ancient history lectures to answer the question, “Why study the deep past?” Because you get more of the jokes! 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My father died when I was in my 20s. My car loan was in his name; the insurance could pay it off. I stalled--it felt wrong to "profit" from his death. Then I thought about him saying, "Hell's fire, woman," when he was annoyed with my mom, & what he'd say if he knew I was still making car payments. ❤️ 020
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 11/04/2026And I learned the term from Little Women--yay, intertextuality! 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 10/04/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXD...youtube.comCheers best bits | S03E16 | "Albania! Albania!"YouTube video by JHew 010
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I think the email *might* be trying to be helpful, not exclusive--they're alerting Catholics that it's a worship service, not a mass. The irony (& in some ways a worse mistake) is that Good Friday is the one day in the year when there is no Catholic mass anywhere in the world. 010
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My dad watched every moon launch for his whole life. 000
Una Cadegan @ohioan49.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Not to go all tourist guide on you, but Lebanon is a great day-trip--The Golden Lamb, the Village Ice Cream Shop (part of the setting for the movie version of Harper Valley, PTA), and Glendower, a beautiful 1836 Greek revival house. 010
