Jerry Towler

Self-driven.

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    TIL

    New word for me from today’s Apple crossword: “pluot.” Well, and “aprium.”

    You’d think they were plum/apricot hybrids, and they are, but it’s more complex than that. Simple hybrids are calls plumcots and apriplums; these are “later generations.” …

    versenotes

    TIL

    Despite the repeated warnings about the invader/conqueror from the north, the book of Jeremiah doesn’t actually mention Babylon by name until chapter 20.

    He spends nineteen chapters talking about this impending disaster “from the …