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Festooned with nearly a dozen Texas State Historical Markers describing the exploits of its permanent inhabitants, Old Bayview Cemetery was founded in 1845 as the United States pushed westward, and the Mexican-American War loomed over the annexation of Texas.
General Zachary Taylor, who would later become the 12thPresident of the United States, was tasked with securing Texas after annexation. Before that however, Taylor’s Army was building up its forces and ferrying them through the shallows of Corpus Christi Bay. On September 13th, 1845, the steamship Dayton suffered a boiler explosion that killed seven men. Corpus Christi founder and major real estate holder Henry Lawrence Kinney donated the three-and-a-half-acre hill that would become Old Bayview Cemetery, and the soldiers were buried the following day. The cemetery continued to grow into the city cemetery, and plots were not sold. It is notable that unlike most cemeteries of the time, there was no racial segregation at Old Bayview. All were equal in death on this small Corpus Christi hill that is suspected to hold many unmarked graves.
The location is particularly interesting as it is just south of the Nueces River, the river that, according to Mexico, marked the boundary line of Texas rather than the further south Rio Grande that was recognized by Texas and the United States. By putting the cemetery in this disputed territory, Taylor communicated a firm message that this real estate was Texas, and Texas was now (almost) part of the United States. Texas would be annexed that December, and the American victory in 1848 would finally achieve the “Manifest Destiny” of expanding the United States territory from sea to shining sea with Mexico surrendering all or parts of Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming to the United States.
Old Bayview is now in downtown Corpus Christi and the area has been heavily developed since 1845, but its slight elevation still gives views. Eli T. Merriman, local booster and former owner of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times campaigned relentlessly for the restoration of the cemetery for years and launched the first Bayview Cemetery Association. It is now his final resting place. In 2020 Old Bayview Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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cosmolinguistI went to lift club this morning and left it not feeling briefly euphoric as usual but instead nothing at all. I had seen cool people, I'd done the best exercise my body has available to it, and all this only got me up to about neutral.
I went to the RNCM, for the first time in at least five years but probably longer, to see a brass band with angelofthenorth. It was such a treat thar she'd sorted this all out for us. Great to have someone to talk with afterward: we had practically opposite rankings of the four pieces we'd heard which amused me. As she was listing hers, someone a few rows ahead who was also getting ready to leave overheard and said "I thought exactly the same!"
I told her that I didn't feel like I was thinking a lot about Minneapolis but looking at how poorly I'm functioning at everything, it's clearly taking up a lot of my usual abilities. Background radiation, she said, and yes that's it exactly.
This afternoon, V filled their pill boxes for the upcoming week had noticed that they didn't receive more of something that they thought they had. (They're so contentious but with so many prescriptions -- especially when they're low on spoons for an extended period (flare? new problem? just coincidence? no way to know!) -- it's easy for something like this to happen.) And of course it's one with hideous withdrawal symptoms. And of course it's the weekend.
I was fully prepared to leave D to make dinner while I was on hold waiting for NHS 111, but I found out you can do this online now! So I spent a relatively painless few minutes typing things into the website and then D drove us both to the pharmacy. After a bunch more questions, which luckily I was prepared (enough) for, we emerged victorious with three days of meds, enough to get us to a weekday when this can be sorted out properly.
We had takeout for dinner.
And then I saw that ICE have executed someone else. My brain and body seem to have shut down at this news.
I'm very glad that V has their meds now. They were so stressed and miserable at the thought of having to go without them. They take them in the evening so I'm glad we could figure out a solution before the meds were even overdue.
Tomorrow will be a busy day being helpful to V's relative who's clearing out his mother's house. I'm looking forward to the physical labor for something I'm not emotionally invested in.
I hope I sleep.
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Above a turn-of-the-century bar sits a petrified cat housed in an exquisite, victorian, carved cabinet. The cat, which is the official “Mascot of Milwaukee Newspaperdom” is named Anubis. Legend claims that Anubis was found between two Milwaukee buildings by reporters investigating a fire.
The bar, the Newsroom Pub, serves as the official meeting place for the Milwaukee Press Club and features the signatures of past Press Club presidents and other famous folks on its walls.
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The USS Triton was the first submarine to circumnavigate the world while submerged. In 1960, it followed the path of Ferdinand Magellan as part of the top secret Operation Sandblast mission.
The memorial at the park includes the names of all 176 crew members, including 8 technical and scientific personnel.
The Triton was also featured in two novels Cold is the Sea and Run Silent, Run Deep both written by her commanding officer Edward L. Beach, Jr.
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This fully functional pocketknife is located in front of Red Hill Cutlery in Radcliff, Kentucky. Built in 2019 and weighing over 6,000 lbs, it is the current Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest pocketknife. It is comprised of a 20 foot handle and a 17.5 foot blade. The blade is so large that a crane is required to open and close it.
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January is soon coming to an end. Here’s what we’re reading right now:
Lara: I tried to read a book featuring a disabled/chronically ill couple but instead of relating or learning, I just felt deeply triggered. So that was that. Now I’m flailing looking for something to take me out of my head.
Sarah: Oh heck I hate when that happens. I’m sorry you’re going through it. Do you have a “break glass in case of emergency” book?
I’m listening to Grave Expectations by Alice Bell, ( A | BN | K | AB ) which is entertaining if not compelling. I love one of the side characters but the main character is giving me increasing feelings of frustration.
Lara: Sarah, I had an emergency nap which always resets me. I’m going to dive into one of Jodi McAlistair’s bachelor inspired books tonight. Something new to me from an author I really enjoy. I’m hoping that’ll set me on the right path.
Elyse: I’ve really been on a historical fiction kick this month. I just finished Meet the Newmans ( A | BN | K | AB ) and now I’m reading The Star Society. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Claudia: I ‘ve just finished an amnesia Harlequin historical and loved it, much to my surprise! It’s A Marquess to Remember by Jenni Fletcher.Susan: I’m reading the first volume of Art Thou Ailing by Ru Si Wo Wen, and all of the beats of the romance feel very familiar. Not in a bad way, just in a “Ah, here is where they pin each other to a wall to hide from a guard… Here is where there’s only one bed… Here is where they fall over and one protects the other from snow…”
This is not a complaint, btw. I read fanfic, you KNOW I will read these tropes in every form they come in.
Shana: I’m reading Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao ( A | BN ) and it is such a perfect comfort read. It’s about a trans woman healing from a bad breakup, who moves in with butch woman who has some healing of her own to do. There’s union organizing, and forced proximity, and so much yearning.
Carrie: I am reading The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub ( A | BN | K | AB ) and it is a delight.
Amanda: My latest game board square is to read something published ten or more years ago. Motivated by our latest solved HaBO, I picked up book one in the series: In Bed with a Highlander by Maya Banks. ( A | BN | K | AB )
Whatcha reading right now? Tell us in the comments!
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Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant.
merriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for January 24, 2026 is:
garner • \GAHR-ner\ • verb
Garner means "to acquire by effort; earn" or "to accumulate or collect."
// The new research findings have garnered the attention of medical experts.
// The group has garnered support from community organizations.
Examples:
"The novel was already a favourite among literary critics but it's sure to garner wider, more mainstream appeal following the Booker Prize win." — Daisy Lester, The Independent (United Kingdom), 11 Nov. 2025
Did you know?
What do you call a building in which grain is stored? These days, English speakers are most likely to call it a granary, but there was a time when garner was also a good candidate. That noun made its way into the language in the 12th century (ultimately from Latin granum, "grain"); the verb garner followed three centuries later with a closely related meaning: "to gather into a granary." Today the verb has largely abandoned its agrarian roots—it usually means "to earn" or "to accumulate." Meanwhile the noun garner is rare in contemporary use. It's found mostly in older literary contexts, such as these lines from Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor: "Or, from the garner-door, on ether borne, / The chaff flies devious from the winnow'd corn."
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