21History of Amsterdam includes lethal wartime role of Amsterdam’s policeSeptember 15, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
22Shakespeare concerned himself with intersection of metaphor and materiality. Also at this post: Rezoning application for 457 Richmond Street West, Toronto, now at Divisional CourtSeptember 8, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
23An investigative report on the American back pain industry, Crooked (2017) underlines limitations of Descartes’ theory of a mind-body splitSeptember 2, 2019/2 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
24In worldwide colonial history Indigenous peoples succumbed to disease arriving with settler society, were pushed aside to marginal lands, or were killed; many resistedAugust 25, 2019/1 Comment/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
25Dictionary of Canadian Biography speaks of Colonel Samuel Smith in his retirement years – as the first settler landowner in Long Branch, following his years of service in War of the American RevolutionAugust 23, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
26World history of land use helps explain many things, including why African-American families are losing their landAugust 17, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
27The blurb for Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (1998) closely matches the contents of the bookAugust 5, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
28Whereas cubist art varies from legible to illegible, the dominant model of critical interpretation of cubism has remained at all times legibleAugust 3, 2019/0 Comments/in Figure/Ground, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
29Downtown Yonge St. has changed since 1975, but the range of personas that you encounter remains much the sameJuly 25, 2019/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
30In the early 1900s, Amsterdam conservationists helped preserve the city’s remaining canals; however, by then, its much-admired maritime vista had disappeared – thanks to a new railroad stationJuly 6, 2019/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
