An argument that the bad guy wasn't so much Walter O'Malley as it was Robert Moses. But boy, a lot of people in Brooklyn blamed O'Malley:
You are in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O'Malley; and you have a gun with two bullets. So who do you shoot?
And, of course, the Dodgers fans would say: You shoot O'Malley twice.
Older clips of the legendary Mr. Lynch speaking about investing, but in the opinion of the poster quite relevant to investing right now. (11.5 minute YouTube video.)
To paraphrase the old joke: "And boy are his legs tired!"
A surprise to me: for five U.S. states the answer is "nuclear".
Some things I didn't know about concrete:
Concrete is now the second-most consumed substance on Earth behind only water. Thirty-three billion tons of it are used each year, making it by far the most abundant human-made material in history. To make all that, we now devour around 4 billion tons of cement each year — more than in the entire first half of the 20th century, and over a billion tons more than the food we eat annually.
As compiled by the AAA.
Yet again the Door links to an answer to one of life's Important Questions.
I've read some about Botswana and it's a remarkable story.
At independence, Botswana was the poorest country in Africa. The drought-stricken nation surrounded by the Kalahari Desert contained 5 kilometers of roads and one high school. Its GDP-per-capita stood at $1000 and half of the government’s budget was supplied by Britain.
Quora discussion. North Sentinel Island and more.
Money "accidentally" deposited in your account, "virtual kidnapping," and more.