[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• blogTO's Chris Bateman writes about the life of William Cawthra, a 19th century millionaire in Toronto who gave his name to--among other places--Church and Wellesley's Cawthra Park.


• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of engines that can move stars and planets, drawn from science fiction.


• Crooked Timber visits the topic of the First World War.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper suggesting TW Hydrae has a borderline brown dwarf in orbit, and to another paper suggesting that exoplanet 55 Cancri e is in a polar orbit of its star.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Greenland's icecap is darkening, potentially accelerating the rate of its melt.


• Eastern Approaches engages with Polish politics.


• Far Outliers is exploring Soviet history, noting Communist enthusiasm for the Russian civil war and origins of totalitarianism in the war.


• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh notes that Japanese inflation is at a 32 year high, and that this isn't good.


• Joe. My. God. notes the suicide of a Tea Party leader in Mississippi who filmed the mentally ill wife of his Republican opponent.


• Language Log approves of a shift to actual language use in the US Supreme Court.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money also discusses the First World War, noting that Serbian opinion isn't very anti-war.


• Marginal Revolution notes economic stagnation among African Americans.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine are starting to join the same Russian mental category reserved for the Baltic States, for good and for ill.