Hell hath no fury...

 Red_Dragon wrote:You don't have to dig deeply for points of Oklahoma pride.

2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

1994 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.

1945 – Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.

1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

 ScottN wrote:
That particular section of the magazine/site is called "Voices in time"...

 RichardPrins wrote:I take the point that was no doubt obviously intended —that "it" has always been so. Historical point made.   Lapham could have made reference to the article and then he (or a colleague) could have written a much more effective piece himself, imo. 

 ScottN wrote: 
Why is it lousy? Though it won't matter to the person who wrote it many centuries ago...

 RichardPrins wrote:Lousy article, imo, even if a valid point is made.
Harper's Magazine, otoh, is wonderful and Lapham has helped make it so.

c. 100 / Alexandria
The Drug of Folly

 Proclivities wrote: 

I'm pretty sure old Woody stole his act from them, didn't everyone else in the known universe?

 sirdroseph wrote:
Oh, yeah, that guy.  Repetitive, derivative, couldn't sing well, sounds kinda' like Mumford & Sons.  
 

The Ramblin' Man, Woody Guthrie, was born on this day in 1912

1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.

1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.

1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.