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🇺🇸 💵 **Value Of The US Dollar Over The Last Six Months**

The value of the US dollar as tracked by the 'US Dollar Index Futures' has fallen against a basket of currencies over the last six months. Source: google.com/finance/quote/NYICD

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📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**

"_Read or download for free_"

🔗 gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.

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attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil.

🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**

Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado

“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._

_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”

🔗 ourworldindata.org/data-insigh.

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**

Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. loc.gov/item/2011645511/.

🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**

Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. loc.gov/item/94507245/.

**'Dumpster fire': Retailers urge shoppers to buy now before tariffs raise prices**

_“Let's skip the corporate-speak: This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit,”_

🔗 cnbc.com/2025/05/04/retailers-.

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🇺🇸 🚢 **Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports**

“Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year_”

🔗 theguardian.com/business/2025/.

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🇺🇸 **DHL will stop shipping packages over $800 to U.S. customers due to new customs rules**

_“The carrier cited the 10% tariffs implemented by the Trump administration in early April, which it says had the effect of subjecting parcels worth over $800 to increased scrutiny by U.S. customs inspectors. That has led to shipping backlogs, DHL said.”_

npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-53713.

📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**

Regina Sienra

"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"

🔗 mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-hist.

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