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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]].
 
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]].
  
#Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou.  
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# <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.
  
#Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham
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# <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).
  
#Taste Chinese restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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# <li value="3"> French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
  
#The Office
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# <li value="4">  Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
  
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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# <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.  
  
# Rouen Cathedral.  
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# <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany,  like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
  
#French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
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# <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.  
  
# Leather backpacks-- Marius one.  
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# <li value="8"> John Reader, ''Africa:  Biography of a Continent''. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
  
#Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
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# <li value="9"> ''Perfect Rigour'', Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.  
  
# Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
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# <li value="10">  Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
  
# The New  Board of Trustees
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# <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
  
#Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
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# <li value="12">  ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
  
#French roadside "aires"
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*The Office
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*  The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
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*[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon
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*Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
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*Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
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*The New  Board of Trustees
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*Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
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*French roadside "aires"

Latest revision as of 11:07, 27 November 2025

See also Best Things of 2024 and Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023 and Best Articles 2021 and Top Ten Articles of 2025.

  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.
  1. 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).
  1. French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
  1. Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
  1. Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto everything.
  1. Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
  1. 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.
  1. John Reader, Africa: Biography of a Continent. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
  1. Perfect Rigour, Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
  1. Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
  1. Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
  1. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.

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  • The Office
  • The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
  • 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
  • French roadside "aires"