Nature and History in the Potomac Country NEURO and intellectually playful

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Federico Garcia Lorca's Four Puppet Plays

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Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighborhood and created a way of life

Nature and History in the Potomac Country NEURO and intellectually playfulJames D. Rice's fresh study of the Potomac River basin begins with a mystery. Why, when the whole of the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly three quarters of the land uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice wonders how the existence of this no man's land influenced nearby Native American and, later, colonial settlements. Did it function as a commons, as a place where all were free to hunt and fish? Or was it