Appalachian Code Switching, and other links

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• An exhaustive listing of the marginal notes of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible -- “The notes indicate a desire on the part of the KJV translators to be very accurate and as literal as possible, in part because they sometimes noted matters where the departure from the original language was very slight.”
• Appalachian Code Switching -- “But my own accent is softly Southwest Virginian. I’ve lived away a good long while, so it’s not as strong as, say, some of my cousins’ accents.”
• Biblical Christianity vs. Atheism on Racism and Slavery -- “On the contrary, racism and slavery are deeply intertwined with the ugly historical development of secular atheism. Racism is obliterated by the Christian truths that God created the human race as a unity...”
• Cades Cove history: The last family to have lived in Cades Cove -- “The son of Kermit and Lois Caughron, Rex is a fifth-generation descendant of the Shields who first settled the area and carved out a life among the mountains’ natural beauty.”
• Daylight Saving debate: Winners — and losers — of ending biannual time changes -- “evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which aligns best with human circadian biology and provides distinct benefits for public health and safety.”
• Dixon Farmhouse, Appling County -- “Once you have South Georgia sand in your brogan shoe, it never completely leaves.”
• Five questions about the Authorised (King James) Version -- “Today, English Christianity is massively fractured and fragmented, and it would be an almost impossible task to gather together a strong team of sufficiently-qualified men who would hold the widespread respect and support of English Christendom.”
• Heroes Next Door -- “Seventy-five years after the Texas City disaster, those who rushed in haven’t been forgotten.”
• How Expressive Individualism Threatens Civil Society -- “A society’s understanding of the notion of ‘self’ has broad implications for the cultural, moral, and political spheres.”
• How magic helps us understand free will -- “Magic can help us understand how easily our mind can be deceived. That s why the study of magic is used by psychologists to study exactly how well we perceive reality.”
• Restorationist Textual Criticism’s Verification Problem -- “By now it should be obvious that Scripture teaches that it is self-authenticating and that there is no greater epsitemic authority by which we can evaluate truth claims. And this necessarily includes truth claims made about Scripture itself.”
• The Final Resting Places of 3 Famous Artists -- “By 1883, Monet and his wife purchased a home and property in Giverny in northern France where he undertook a vast landscaping project.”
• The last acceptable prejudice -- “This is the last acceptable public prejudice: bad jokes and silly stereotypes about people who speak differently.”
• The Originality of Text-Critical Symbols in Codex Vaticanus -- “The discovery that the ink of text-critical symbols in Codex Vaticanus1 matches the original ink of the codex breaks new ground for textual criticism...The unique three horizontal dots of undetermined origin in the margin by 1 John 5:7 also abut the line preceding an interpolation ...”
• Thomas Pursell’s Escape Burial Hatch -- “Obsession with the safety coffin, which became especially intense between the 18th and 19th centuries, was born from widespread fear of being buried alive.”
• Two-Fisted Law and Order -- “Judge Roy Bean made the rules and found fame in his remote corner of West Texas.”
• Understanding History Takes Empathy -- “One of the benefits of Christian faith should be that it sets us on a path toward a deep view of sin.”
• Ways Grove Baptist, Jefferson County, Org. 1865 -- “We believe that the story of these two historic rural churches truly tell us where we came from and how we got here.”
• 1,362 / 783,137 = 0.00174 -- “So, by Ward’s own count, we ought to abandon the KJV because two tenths of a percent of the words of the KJV may be words we think we understand but don’t.”