Is it just me or does season 2 seem like a completely different show? I just binge-watched the first season and found it to be serious, grey, deep and very character driven.
Just started season 2 and it feels like something that got disneyfied and dumbed down.
I use Flipboard for most everything but getting sick of the ads
https://constitutingamerica.org/august-15-1914-opening-of-the-panama-canal-guest-essayist-amanda-hughes/
Prior to World War I, oceanic travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had to route dangerous passages around southern South America. Considerations for a way to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific were present for centuries. More recent among these include survey expeditions Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, who wrote as an Army Captain in 1852 of disease and other tragedies during military travels while crossing the Isthmus of Panama, “The horrors of the road in the rainy season are beyond description.” A survey by Grant included Panama where it was found that the current route of the Panama Canal was nearly the same as what was proposed by Grant’s survey.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Berkowitz
David Berkowitz, American serial killer who murdered six people in New York City in 1976–77. His crimes plunged the city into a panic and unleashed one of the largest manhunts in New York history. He became known as Son of Sam, which was the name he used in letters sent to newspapers during his killing spree.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_resignation_speech
https://history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/dshield_dstorm/desert-shield.html
https://www.wired.com/2007/08/dayintech-0807-2/
Tim Berners-Lee, an inventor of the internet, sits outside his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Photo: Ed Quinn / Corbis 1991: The world wide web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time. The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first web pages […]
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