It's the Feast Day of St. Francis. From GKC's St. Francis:
[I]t is true to say that what St. Benedict had stored St. Francis scattered; but in the world of spiritual things what had been stored into the barns like grain was scattered over the world as seed. The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as with thunder with the trampling of their feet and far ahead of that ever swellinghost went a man singing; as simply he had sung that morning in the winter woods, where he walked alone.
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I'm going: Las Vegas is opening The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, which will showcase southern Nevada's colorful and storied past in organized crime. I first became interested in mob history when I was about ten. My parents were watching a TV series (on PBS?) that recreated early American Mafia history: Masseria, Maranzano, Luciano, Pizzeria. I started watching it, and the interest niche stuck for the past thirty years.
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Neat story from earlier this week that I missed: In Iraq, a Monastery Rediscovered Near Mosul, War Has Helped and Hindered Efforts to Excavate the 1,400-Year-Old Dair Mar Elia Monastery.
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For the less virile among my readers:
