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in the united states of course as with most excellent stories in history this bears the telltale too perfectly symmetrical marks of being not precisely true it makes for good fiction in reality there are oily smudges looping arching and whorling all over the smooth surfaces of history dating back at least 4 000 years when hammurabi sealed contracts with a fingertip not much more recently the chinese used inked prints as unique signatures on contracts and as early as 200 bc may have been using hand prints left at crime scenes to help crack burglary cases image by openclipart vectors from pixabay it was in the 17th century that european scholars started describing the unique combinations of patterns on the ends of our fingers then in 1892 sir francis galton cousin to charles darwin and originator of the unsavory study of eugenics published a helpful classification of the patterns of fingerprints that led to sir edward henry s development of a practical system of identification that could be used in law enforcement which he presented to scotland yard of course as impressive as this sounds mark twain solved a crime using fingerprinting in his somewhat embellished memoir life on the mississippi in 1883 indicating i think that it would behoove scientists to pay closer attention to writers because they have all the ideas scotland yard adopted henry s system in 1901 brought it to the 1904 world s fair in st louis and presented it to st louis police detectives and the general public including both the fictional amateur sleuth in my novel set at the world s fair as well as the historical m w mcclaughry records clerk at the penitentiary at leavenworth kansas in september of 1904 fresh from his trip to the fair mcclaughry requested that a fingerprinting system be implemented at the prison it was another one hundred and twenty years before my sleuth put the science to work in my book paradise on the pike but even though the story of the two william wests is somewhat fictional too there s a ring of some truth to it there were two william wests at leavenworth at the same time and they were identical distinguishable only by their unique fingerprints they did become a good illustration of the usefulness of the relatively newfangled science of fingerprinting still in reality the timeline of the story doesn t quite work out when a second william west showed up to be processed it doesn t seem that it caused much of a stir at all it was however convenient to have them both there when clerk m w mcclaughry got excited about this newfangled science that had already been in use in some way for thousands of years and it sure did make for a good story have it my way on september 18 2025 september 18 2025 by sarah angleton in food politics 9 comments in 1924 while working at his family s roadside sandwich stand the rite spot in pasadena on a part of the famous route 66 16 year old lionel sternberger made history when he placed the first slice of cheese ever to grace the top of a hamburger patty probably the rite spot pasadena ca unknown provided by don sternberger public domain via wikimedia commons how exactly it happened is a little unclear one story suggests that lionel burned the patty and so he threw on the slice of cheese to cover up his mistake a slightly less dramatic theory is that a clever uncredited customer asked for cheese on their burger and lionel simply obliged but another entirely different tale of the invention of the cheeseburger comes from kansas city where a man named charles kaelin claimed in 1934 to have had the first genius idea to add tang to a hamburger by adding cheese just a year before the owner of denver s humpty dumpty drive in first trademarked the word cheeseburger there are probably other origin stories as well and we could certainly debate about them and produce all kinds of memes and reels and righteously angry and potentially insensitive social media tirades though somehow i doubt we d get anywhere productive i d rather take today national cheesburger day here in the us to appreciate and celebrate what we have in common this fine sandwich we all know and love even veggies love their cheeseburgers well most of us probably love at least some version of it what precisely goes on a cheeseburger is not always the same from burger stand to burger stand or from backyard grill to backyard grill we can all pretty much agree that it needs to include some sort of beef patty unless of course you don t eat beef and prefer something like bison or venison or even turkey or i suppose you could be vegetarian and stick to a plant based patty or replace it all together with a big beefy portibello mushroom which i guess still counts a bun too is standard either with sesame seeds or without smeared with a little butter and toasted or not maybe a gluten free bun is your jam or no bun at all some people though surely not anyone i d want to know replace the bun with a couple large pieces of lettuce there s also the question of what kind of cheese you use the traditionalist might go with a cheddar or a melty american but pepper jack can pack a nice punch or blue cheese an odd funk in case you re into that sort of thing if you re a little pretentious a swiss or smoky gouda could work and then there are the vegans among us that i guess have to settle for some sort of not a cheese product and then we hit the question of toppings ketchup is pretty standard unless you re dead set against it mayonnaise is a contender too for those with no taste buds steak sauce might work again for the unapologetically pretentious the indulgent might like to add bacon to theirs and the vegetable obsessed will insist on lettuce tomato and pickles while people who completely hate themselves might even consider raw onion a defensible choice image by leonardovieira260998 from pixabay with all of these certainly not exhaustive options maybe the best thing to do would be to avoid confusion and standardize the cheeseburger and if we do that then we could make sure we are providing the ultimate cheeseburger experience to all people regardless of their individual backgrounds and ill informed biases we could use only the very best ingredients too and perhaps limit the consumption of cheeseburgers so that people don t stress the healthcare system with their poor choices or shape the supply chain in a way that we suspect might overburden either the environment or the market yes it s true that at first we could get some push back some cheeseburger stands and backyard cookouts may initially fail to comply and will likely use hateful rhetoric to insist that they have a right to prepare and eat cheeseburgers the way they want if these deplorable enemies of culinary taste get a chance they might even spew their venom in public debates in which they claim it could even be a good and useful thing to consider alternative ways of preparing cheeseburgers i believe however that if the truly good and hungry people of this nation fight hard enough and take to the streets to protest the non compliant businesses and backyards maybe squish up a few buns torch a couple of grills and throw a few ketchup bottles we can silence the opposition i bet you know for the good of all but of course i jest in truth i feel that if you want to ruin your otherwise perfectly delicious cheeseburger with a hunk of raw onion you should be free to do so we can even still be friends provided you brush your teeth before standing close enough to say engage with me in a heated political debate if however you try to put a hunk of raw onion on my cheeseburger be forewarned that i just may say something hurtful on social media that i ll probably regret and have to try to apologize for later not quite history yet on september 11 2025 september 11 2025 by sarah angleton in history literature 7 comments i ve been at this thursday blogging thing for more than a decade now which makes me feel terribly old i ve never figured out how to make money off it though apparently some people do i probably couldn t anyway because i rarely share recipes or include bullet points that offer succinct strategies to improve your health or achieve your financial goals this blog will rarely promise you better sleep space saving hacks or hot vacation tips and i assure you you will never ever read technology advice in this particular corner of the blogosphere while i do harbor a vague hope that readers who stumble across my blog might be curious enough to buy one of my historical novels i m in this space primarily because i enjoy it i enjoy playing with history and interacting with readers and being kind of silly and occasionally toying with an idea that might just turn out to be a little bit profound and spur some good thinking one such book excellent historical fiction for a middle schooler emotionally tough read for those who remember but once in a while thursday falls on a day when i m not sure i have any words to offer this is one of those thursdays because of course twenty four years ago today a moment of national tragedy occurred here in the us and altered the way i think about the world and i still don t want to write about it i don t know if someday i will want to in the past twenty four years several authors have ventured to do so many in nonfiction formats but also several now who have chosen to let the sad events of september 11 2001 be the backdrop for fictional stories i ve read a few such novels and have appreciated them last year when i took some time off of writing and worked in a middle school library i sometimes recommended them discussed them and shelved them in the historical fiction section of the library yes we debated whether that was appropriate or not after all the historical novel society which seems as though it should be the authority on the genre defines historical fiction as a story written at least fifty years after the events described or that has been written by someone who was not alive during the events and so has approached them only via outside research their website does however also acknowledge that it s complicated most of the writers of the stories that bump up against the events of the september 11th terrorist attack in new york were alive when it occurred and are certainly not fifty years removed from the event like me they probably remember where they were when the news of the planes hitting the twin towers broke and they shared in the shock of a nation that had been generally pretty lucky throughout its relatively short history not to have experienced too much terror on its own soil my adult children have no living memory of this event but for me it s still pretty raw national park service public domain via wikimedia commons but the readers in the middle school library have no living memory of that awful day their older siblings likely have no living memory of it either and so they have no direct emotional connection with which to approach the subject matter to them it is just another historical event they learn about in school like the kennedy assassination or the apollo moon landing or the attack on pear harbor were to me i m pretty sure i have written in this space at least tangentially about all three of those historical events because even such huge moments in history are fairly easy to plumb for material that s only vaguely worth writing about my specialty in this space today however is different it s a day when ridiculous historical tidbits that might be fun to write about are obscured by this other monstrous moment and that one moment at least for me isn t quite history yet at least it didn t take eighty years on september 4 2025 by sarah angleton in architecture inventions 10 comments in 1872 dr françois merry delebost was serving as the chief physician for the bonne nouvelle prison in rouen france when he had a pretty great idea every day about nine hundred prisoners engaged in hard often messy labor that left them each in desperate need of a bath unfortunately the prison didn t have very many tubs and the water was changed infrequently so most prisoners came out just as dirty as they went in i forgot to take a before picture but trust me it didn t look much better than this concerned about the risk for the spread of disease in these conditions delebost devised a series of individual cubicles in which a prisoner would have warm clean water to be pumped and sprinkled over his head to wash away the grime of the day this wasn t the first time anyone had taken a shower of course presumably clever people have pretty much always stood under waterfalls to get clean egyptians used jugs to pour water over their heads greeks and romans may have even had rudimentary showers as a part of some public baths in 1767 an english stovemanker by the name of william feetham invented contraption that pumped water up from a basin to dump it on a bather s head over and over again as the water got dirtier and dirtier an anonymous invention known simply as the english regency shower improved on this somewhat in the early 1800s and even charles dickens got in the action in 1849 when he commissioned an outdoor shower making use of a waterfall on his family s vacation home on the isle of wight but the true hero in bringing the modern shower to the masses was most likely dr delebost whose prison shower system caught on finding its way into gymnasiums army barracks and insane asylums it did however take a while for the shower to make a splash in private homes as nice as the new shower is my favorite part of the renovation is the hand towel fixture securely attached to the non poop colored wall having recently almost completed a bathroom renovation i kind of understand that as i ve previously mentioned we are in the process of moving from the suburbs into the country to a house that will make a much easier commute for my husband the new old house that we bought needs a lot of work but we also needed to do a project in our other house because nearly thirteen years ago now we moved in saying that while the house is extremely nice something had to be done about the lackluster master bathroom i mean the cramped and stained shower was usable and i think we may have soaked in the over sized jacuzzi tub once or twice i definitely didn t love the dark brown walls convenient i suppose for hiding any additional bathroom staining that might come up and the screw that held the peacock themed hand towel fixture was literally pulling from a gaping hole in the poop colored wall for twelve years of course as one does when they are about to sell a house we decided we finally ought to take on the project of making it nice for someone else who very well could appreciate our design choices as much as we have enjoyed the gold trimmed shower door that s almost impossible to clean just ignore the plastic wrap on the bathtub the project is almost finished still in the hopes that a prospective buyer who might otherwise say well t...