Freelance Journalist, former Wall Street Journal Senior Editor.
bob.davisreports@gmail.com
How American-born Ian Levy became a celebrated novelist writing exclusively in Japanese
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Pitcher Bill Lear is the oldest of the 450 or so players on D.C.-area baseball teams for those 48-and-older -- and a hell of a competitor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/05/maryland-baseball-seniors-bill-lear/View / Download
The person (or persons) --referred to as "R," the Redactor -- who wove together the different parts of the Bible to make a coherent whole.
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Mongolian horsemen, who have never seen Western bulls, struggle bravely to learn bull riding.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ni-hao-pard-cowboys-come-to-china-but-bull-riding-is-tough-to-translate-1413945002View / Download
A bull named Optimus Prime Optimus Prime humbles opponents when he feels like it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444508504577593062173053248?mod=WSJASIA_hpp_MIDDLEFourthNewsView / DownloadIn Europe, ballerinas, opera singers, and matadors are exempt from laws increasing the retirement age.
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Jonathan Amith works to make a digital dictionary of Nahuatl before the language disappears/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB114075216418482236View / DownloadOne of Mexico's greatest amate painters trades his paintings for pschiatricl treatment.
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Europe loves pigs, but the people of Parma really love them.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023137142915824840View / DownloadThe IRS makes taxpayers keep meticulous financial records but its historian quit after complaining the agency dumps its own historical files in a basement or shreds them.
https://apnews.com/article/58ac9512abd351d23d0cd1ddb2482e80View / DownloadI figure out what happened to tens of thousands of Woodstock tickets that were never sold.
View / DownloadHalfball is stickball with half a ball. Bostonians love it.
View / DownloadIf there is a likely spot on this planet for a yearly latke festival, ti is not Oneonta, New York.
View / DownloadFreelance Journalist, former Wall Street Journal Senior Editor.
bob.davisreports@gmail.com