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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]]. | ||
| − | # <li value="1"> ''The Deceiver'', by Frederick Forsyth. | + | # <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="2"> ''Frederick the Great: Crisis'' (2020) | + | # <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-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers. | ||
| − | # <li value="4"> Leather backpacks-- Marius one. | + | # <li value="4"> Leather backpacks-- 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. | # <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. | ||
| − | # <li value="6"> Becherel, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town. | + | # <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town. |
| − | # <li value="7"> ''Shepherds for Sale'' by Megan Basham. | + | # <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="8"> John Reader, ''Africa: Biography of a Continent''. | + | # <li value="8"> John Reader, ''Africa: Biography of a Continent''. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history . |
| − | # <li value="9"> ''Perfect Rigour'', Masha Gessen (2009) | + | # <li value="9"> ''Perfect Rigour'', Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written. |
| − | # <li value="10"> Rouen Cathedral | + | # <li value="10"> Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods. |
| − | # <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. | + | # <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses. |
| − | # <li value="12"> ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980) | + | # <li value="12"> ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene. |
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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.
- 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.
- 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).
- French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
- Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
- Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto everything.
- Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
- 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.
- John Reader, Africa: Biography of a Continent. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
- Perfect Rigour, Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
- Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
- Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
- 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"
