Best Things of 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. Frederick the Great: Crisis (2020) wargame. Virgin Queen.

1. The book on the Russian mathematician.

1. Rouen Cathedral

1. The Ithaca Museum of the Earth fossil museum

2. French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.

1. Leather backpacks-- Marius one.

1. Gel Superglue, which doesn't run onto everything.

1. Weimar, game of 1920's German politics

1. Soviet Dawn: The Russian Civil War 1918-1921 solitaire wargame

1. Becherel, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.

1. Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham

1. Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou.

1. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.

1. The Deceiver, by Frederick Forsyth.

1. John Reader, Africa: Biography of a Continent.

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1. The Office

1. https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ Classical and Koine Greek lexicon

Also Ran: Taste Chinese restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana.

1. Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.

1. Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.

1. The New Board of Trustees

1. Sleeping in airplanes sitting up

1. French roadside "aires"