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From DR. BOLI’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISINFORMATION,
Third Series.
Stonedwall Jackson in his battle jacket, by our staff artist.
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Stonewall Jackson. The Confederate general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson received his nickname from the distinctive camouflage he wore. In rural Virginia, which is crisscrossed by stone walls, it was very effective in concealing him from Union forces; but it also rendered him nearly invisible to his own side, leading to his unfortunate but probably inevitable demise.
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From DR. BOLI’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISINFORMATION,
Third Series.
Breakfast. It is often said that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” but astronomers have recently shown that breakfast is more or less irrelevant from a cosmic perspective.
From DR. BOLI’S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY.
Natural (adjective).—1. Of food, cosmetics, etc.: Packaged in materials made from petroleum by-products and processed into standardized units from ingredients ultimately derived from substances present in the physical universe.
2. Of art, literature, etc.: Conforming to the current clichés that define what is correct in representational art, as opposed to the clichés of the era immediately past, which are designated artificial.
ART CORNER.
Amphion Destroys Thebes with One Out-of-Tune D String, by engraver Abraham van Diepenbieeck.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
MICROSOFT WINDOWS…
…in one line from Wikipedia.
What’s the universal way to insert a nonbreaking space from the keyboard?
Let’s look in Wikipedia. Oh! There’s a handy chart by operating system.
| System/application | Entry method |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Windows | Alt+0160 or Alt+255 (doesn’t always work) |