While doing genealogy I found out one of my ancestors pretended to be 20 years older than he really was.
I for an odd reason remember the first time I had tiramisu and it was in the early 1990s.
Yes, this is how the nonsense fact that Delaware gave the first bar exam got started.
New blog post! Outlining my research on corporations that vote, in Delaware. Facts and figures you didn't know you needed!
In Delaware, corporations can vote. So can LLCs, partnerships, and trusts, provided they own real property within the municipality where the election is taking place. In "The Company State,” capital n...
I HAVE FINISHED EXAMINING ALL 57 MUNICIPAL CHARTERS IN DELAWARE 40 municipalities (70%) grant corporations the vote in some cases (annexations, bond referenda); 3 (5%) fully enfranchise them. NB: Corps are enfranchised only if they own (or, in some cases, lease) real property in town.
And yes I figured out when she died.
I went to see Suffs in New York a couple of weeks ago and was really taken with suffragist Ruza Wenclawska. I was disappointed with the lack of biographical info about her online. No one even knew when she died! So here's the result of my research so far. medium.com/@JanetLinden...
Note: Ruza Wenclawska used several different names in various aspects of her professional life, including Rose Winslow, Ruza Wenclaw, and…
There used to be a guy named Harry Lewis who was the lead plaintiff in lots of Delaware Chancery cases.
Another entry in "why I hate the bluebook." 39 Prof’l. Admin 13. Is it Professional Administrator or Professional Administration? Which of the several journals with those titles is it? I figured it out eventually but why are we still using these pointless abbreviations?
Lexis AI seems to have the same problem as other AI searches I've tried. If you ask it to find something that exists, it can find it. If you ask it to find something that doesn't exist, it just makes something up that follows the right pattern.