Top Ten HelyTimes Posts Of The Year
Posted: December 26, 2016 Filed under: heroes, Wonder Trail Leave a comment
Watching the America’s Cup Race. Mrs. Kennedy, President Kennedy, others. Off Newport, RI, aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. by Robert Knudsen
By reader vote, these were considered
The Top Ten Helytimes Posts Of The Year
10) Shorter History Of Australia
about Geoffrey Blainey’s book on how that country became what it is, and their national cry Cooo-EEE!
9) Jo Mora and Mora Update
about how the Uruguayan-Californian artist influenced almost a century of design
8) Travel Tips From Bill and Tony
Conversations between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton
7) San Francisco
A visit to that famed city and the Diego Rivera murals hidden around it
6) Khipus
On Incan rope counting systems and their decipherment
5) Jackie Smoking Pregnant
An investigation into a photo of the former first lady
4) Twenty Greatest Australian Accomplishments of All Time
This was by far our most popular post by views
3) Death Valley Days
A trip to the national park, and its place in our national consciousness
2) Lady Xoc
About the Mayan queen of the 8th century
The definitive winner for the year?:
1) Boyd, Trump, and OODA Loops
A review of writing by and about fighter pilot John Boyd, who offers a way into DT’s thinking.
Honorable mentions:
a brief look at Sanders and Trump
about you know who, comparing him to Tim Ferriss.
a big wild roundup.
on how a Swiss chocolatier came to own freshwater springs in Southern California
about the Vietnam War correspondent, Kubrick pal and Zen Buddhist
on the work of Randall Collins, an underappreciated hero
A Description of Distant Roads,
extracts from a 1769 description of California,
a dispatch from rainy New Zealand,
and a personal favorite,
about Willa Cather, Walt Whitman, and America.
The most popular post of the year
by views, was
American Historical Figure Who Reminds Me Of Trump
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