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What I’m Reading to-day:

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, My President Was Black (The Atlantic)
• Henry Petrosky, The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are (1994)
• Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010)

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English paleontologist, fossil collector, and fossil dealer who became known around the world for important finds she made Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel . . . . Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified; the first two more complete plesiosaur skeletons found; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and important fish fossils . . . .

(Adapted from Wikipedia.)