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A User's Guide to the Infinite Art Tournement
- The Rules and Rationale of the Infinite Art Tournament
- The Tournament: Recent Matchups
- Ladder of Art Rules and FAQ
- Michael5000 at the Movies
- Michael5000's Periodic Table of the Elements
- Michael5000's Calendar of the Saints
- The Songs of the Fifty States
- Michael5000 vs. Shakespeare
- The Reading List Index and Progress Chart (Complete)
The Brackets!
- The IAT Final Bracket
- The IAT Bracket, Section 1 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 2 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 3 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 4 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 5 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 6 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 7 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Bracket, Section 8 of 8 (final)
- The IAT Play-In Artist SubTournament (final)
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- Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Bear Chronicles
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- Michael5000 Strikes Like Lightning
- Your Thursday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
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- PostCrossing -- the stamps
- Michael5000, Card Sharp (II)
- Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- Your Thursday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- It's...
- Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Bear Chronicles
- Michael5000 is Certainly Not a Pipe
- It's the Book Arts!
- Your Thursday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Wednesday Quiz works its way around a dandelion
- Element of the Month: Niobium!
- The Postage
- Michael5000, Card Sharp (I)
- Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Bear Chronicles
- Flag Friday XXXI
- Your Thursday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Wednesday Quiz nibbles at a carrot
- Quarterly Report to the Shareholders, Spring 2011,...
- The Postage
- Quarterly Report to the Shareholders, Spring 2011,...
- Happy UnitedStatesian Independence Day!
- Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000
- The Bear Chronicles
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5 comments:
Cinnamon Bear lobbying for pro-bear legislation!
LOL Sue, I was just going to ask what he was lobbying for. =)
The smirk on his face makes me wonder if he's sending Tweets with 'bear-naked' pictures....
Was there at some time in US history a policy of establishing state capitals in minor towns, or has urban growth since just made it appear that way? Like Salem? You have to look carefully to find it.
Elaine, he's really not so lascivious as you think. He's just happy to be in the world.
Aviatrix: There was never a national policy, but there was sometimes that kind of thinking in a particular state. But really there are 50 different stories of how a state capital was selected. The best might be that of Kansas, in which during the drive for statehood there were three major political plums to be passed out: the capital, the state university, and the state prison. The three major settlements of the territory more or less got to pick in order of political clout: Leavenworth first, then Topeka, then Lawrence.*
Salem incidentally, is the third biggest non-suburban city in Oregon, so it's not like the capital is hidden under a rock or something. But yes, it is hardly a metropolis, which is I believe why the Bear was at pains to mention its locations.
*Topeka is the capital of Kansas. Lawrence is home to one of my almae matres, the University of Kansas.
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