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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]].
  
#Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou.  
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# <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.
  
#Weimar, game of 1920's German politics
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# <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).
  
#Soviet Dawn: THe Russian Civil War 1918-1921 solitaire wargame
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# <li value="3"> French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
  
#Becherel, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
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# <li value="4">  Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.  
  
#Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham
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# <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.
  
#Taste Chinese restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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# <li value="6"> Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany,  like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
  
#The Office
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# <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.
  
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
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# <li value="8"> John Reader, ''Africa: Biography of a Continent''. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
  
# Rouen Cathedral.  
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# <li value="9"> ''Perfect Rigour'', Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.  
  
#French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
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# <li value="10">  Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
  
# Leather backpacks-- Marius one.  
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# <li value="11"> Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.  
  
#Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
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# <li value="12">  ''Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party'' (1980). A novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.
  
# Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
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# The New  Board of Trustees
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*The Office
 
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*  The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum
#Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
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*[https://logeion.uchicago.edu/  https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon
 
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*Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.
#French roadside "aires"
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*Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.
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*The New  Board of Trustees
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*Sleeping in airplanes sitting up
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*French roadside "aires"

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.

  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.
  1. 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).
  1. French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.
  1. Leather backpacks-- Marius one. This will replace my beloved briefcase.
  1. Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto everything.
  1. Becherel, France, near Dinant just outside Brittany, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.
  1. 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.
  1. John Reader, Africa: Biography of a Continent. From the geology to 2000 or so, lots of science as well as history .
  1. Perfect Rigour, Masha Gessen (2009). A biography a famous Russian eccentric mathematician recluse. Beautifully written.
  1. Rouen Cathedral. Not the most beautiful, but it has historical connections to all periods.
  1. Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou. In a chalk cavern, like many of the town's houses.
  1. 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"