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 # <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth (1991), author of the even better ''Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War''. I haven't yet come across a bad book of his.
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 Sleeping in airplanes sitting up.
 French roadside "aires".

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 # <li value="12">   ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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 Also rans.
 The Office.

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 Also rans.
-*The Office.
+The Office.
-*  The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum.
+The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum.
-*[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon.
+[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon.
-*Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
+Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
-*Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
+Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
-*Sleeping in airplanes sitting up.
+Sleeping in airplanes sitting up.
-*French roadside "aires".
+French roadside "aires".

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 # <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth (1991), author of the even better ''Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War''. I haven't yet come across a bad book of his.
-# <li value="2">  ''Weimar'', a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! ''Frederick the Great: Crisis''(7 Years War, 2020); ''Virgin Queen'' (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); ''Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921''(solitaire).
+# <li value="2">''Weimar'', a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! ''Frederick the Great: Crisis''(7 Years War); ''Virgin Queen'' (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); ''Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921''(solitaire).
-# <li value="3"> French food-- cheap restaurants, fancy restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops,fishmongers, butchers. Reason enough  for a trip to France.
+# <li value="3"> French food-- cheap restaurants, fancy restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops,fishmongers, butchers.  Sufficient reason in itself for a trip to France.
-# <li value="4"> Leather backpacks such as this [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] one from St. Malo. It will replace my beloved briefcase.
+# <li value="4"> Leather backpacks such as the ones made by  [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] for sale in St. Malo. A briefcase replacement.
 # <li value="5"> [https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Single-Super-Glue-AD119/dp/B00342VCGM/ref=asc_df_B00342VCGM?mcid=930b08647c80353089b2221d97a80cf7&hvocijid=903390782445903972-B00342VCGM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=903390782445903972&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016563&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&th=1|Gel Gel Superglue], which doesn't run onto your fingers.
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 # <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany.  Like Hay on Wye, this is a bookstore town.
-# <li value="7"> ''Shepherds for Sale'' by Megan Basham. How big-name evangelical organizations have been cleverly corrupted by leftwing money. It's shocking how easy this was.
+# <li value="7"> ''Shepherds for Sale'' by Megan Basham (2024). How big-name evangelical organizations have been cleverly corrupted by leftwing money. It's shocking how easy this was.
-# <li value="8">   [https://www.abebooks.com/9780679409793/Africa-Biography-Continent-Reader-John-0679409793/plp ''Africa:  Biography of a Continent,''] John Reader (1998). From   geology to  prehistory to 2000 or so, with lots of science as well as history .
+# <li value="8">   [https://www.abebooks.com/9780679409793/Africa-Biography-Continent-Reader-John-0679409793/plp ''Africa:  Biography of a Continent,''] John Reader (1998). From geology to prehistory to 2000, science as well as history.
 # <li value="9"> ''Perfect Rigour'', Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
-# <li value="10">  Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful cathedral, but it has historical connections to all periods.
+# <li value="10">  Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful one, but it has historical connections to all periods.
-# <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
+# <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses. The simple nettle soup was the best.
 # <li value="12">   ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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+Also rans.
-*The Office
+*The Office.
-*  The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
+*  The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum.
-*[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon
+*[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon.
 *Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
 *Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
-*The New  Board of Trustees
+*Sleeping in airplanes sitting up.
-*Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
+*French roadside "aires".

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 See also [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Best_Things_of_2024 Best Things of 2024] and [[Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023]] and [[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Top Ten Articles of 2025]].
-# <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth, author of the even better ''Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War''. I haven't yet come across a bad book of his.
+# <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth (1991), author of the even better ''Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War''. I haven't yet come across a bad book of his.
 # <li value="2">  ''Weimar'', a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! ''Frederick the Great: Crisis''(7 Years War, 2020); ''Virgin Queen'' (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); ''Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921''(solitaire).

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 # <li value="4"> Leather backpacks such as this [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] one from St. Malo. It will replace my beloved briefcase.
-# <li value="5"> [Gel Supergluehttps://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Single-Super-Glue-AD119/dp/B00342VCGM/ref=asc_df_B00342VCGM?mcid=930b08647c80353089b2221d97a80cf7&hvocijid=903390782445903972-B00342VCGM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=903390782445903972&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016563&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&th=1|Gel Superglue], which doesn't run onto your fingers.
+# <li value="5"> [https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Single-Super-Glue-AD119/dp/B00342VCGM/ref=asc_df_B00342VCGM?mcid=930b08647c80353089b2221d97a80cf7&hvocijid=903390782445903972-B00342VCGM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=903390782445903972&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016563&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&th=1|Gel Superglue], which doesn't run onto your fingers.
 # <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany.  Like Hay on Wye, this is a bookstore town.

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 See also [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Best_Things_of_2024 Best Things of 2024] and [[Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023]] and [[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Top Ten Articles of 2025]].
-# <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth, author of the even better Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. I suspect that everything he writes is good.
+# <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth, author of the even better ''Day of the Jackal'' and ''The Dogs of War''. I guess that everything he writes is good.
-# <li value="2">  ''Weimar'', a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year!    ''Frederick the Great: Crisis''(7 Years War, 2020); ''Virgin Queen'' (1550-1600 religious and political conflict);  ''Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921'' (solitaire).
+# <li value="2">  ''Weimar'', a board game of 1920's German politics. I have come across so many good games this year! ''Frederick the Great: Crisis''(7 Years War, 2020); ''Virgin Queen'' (1550-1600 religious and political conflict); ''Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921'' (solitaire).
-# <li value="3"> French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
+# <li value="3"> French food-- cheap restaurants, fancy restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops,fishmongers, butchers. Reason enough by itself for a trip.
-# <li value="4">  Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
+# <li value="4">  Leather backpacks-- [https://www.paulmarius.com/men/bags/backpacks.html Marius] one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
 # <li value="5">  [https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Single-Super-Glue-AD119/dp/B00342VCGM/ref=asc_df_B00342VCGM?mcid=930b08647c80353089b2221d97a80cf7&hvocijid=903390782445903972-B00342VCGM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=903390782445903972&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016563&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&th=1 Gel Superglue], which doesn't run onto everything.