Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

After a career of teaching history, it is so much fun to write about nonsense.

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Havana Today

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N ote .   I haven’t been to Cuba.   The three main sources for the information here comes from Reuters, The New York Times, and the Miami He...
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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Static, Dynamic, and Other Fairy Tales from New York City

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Zohran Mamdani’s latest fiscal sales pitch rests on a familiar political miracle: tax the rich, tax big business, tax a few luxury transacti...
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Saturday, February 28, 2026

Galveston, Cannons, and a Boat Wearing a Bale Suit

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Galveston has always been a place where commerce, weather, and human judgment wrestle in public, and none of them likes to lose.   Even in t...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Three Centuries of Royal Scandals

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Andrew, the royal reprobate formerly known as Prince, is the first senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Oliver Cromwell ca...
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Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Surrender of Fort Fillmore

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Perhaps the first thing you should know about this little-known Civil War episode is that the geography is the villain of the story —or, at ...
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Mark Milliorn
Now that I'm retired, I'm a student again. I just finished my fifth bachelor's degree and I'm looking for a new major. I make terrible watercolor paintings that I burn so they can't be used as evidence at my commitment hearing.
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