Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.

easily and quickly explains how a differential transmission works.  it's brilliant.  wish we had way more of this kind of education today.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

Perciflage the Dragon is not the most...perceptive girl ever.

Bubble-carded figures!  Make yer own dogsled race.

This marks the day ol' Columbus set out in 1492.  A day fraught with both peril and profit.

and in 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert landed at Newfoundland and planted the English Flag. in effect the first English colony in North America.

in 1776, this is the day the delegates actually signed the enlarged presentation version of the Declaration that is preserved.