The definition of "centralist tyranny" of course includes Texian objections to Mexico's abolition of slavery, aligned with Audubon own interests as a slave owner.

I suppose it's unlikely that there were a lot of Chiam Potok fans as new parents? My first thought, seeing boy #9, was his book titled "My Name is Asher Lev".

As a kid we would go to Duff’s Smorgasbord, a buffet chain where the food came by you so you could just stand there and pick out what you wanted. The loop went back to the kitchen for reloading or changing. I understand they didn't do well after the owner died, but there's still a Duff's Buffet in Clearwater, FL. https://duffsbuffet.com/ Doesn't have the moving food though.

I'm glad Jacksonville had an honorable mention as I thought (wrongly) it would be in the top 4. Though to note, its shape is not exactly the same as Duval county. I mean, I thought it was, but then I had a roommate from Jacksonville Beach, and learned there were a few other small cities in the county which were not part of consolidation.

Back in the halcyon days of fall 1988 I was in my first semester of college, in Tallahassee, far north of the Miami where I was born and raised.
In October or so I visited Rome, Georgia - the farthest north I had ever been in fall.
That was the first time in my 18 years of life when I saw massive numbers of trees changing color. It was much better than the pictures I had seen.
(About two years later there was a hard freeze. The overnight temps would get below freezing! Those of us in the dorm from south Florida stayed up late, excitedly calling time&temp - it was the olden days - so we could go outside and experience 32℉ and colder. We even made left water outside to see if it would freeze.)

I kinda like the janky rythm of a hand-cranked hurdy-gurdy.

IMDB at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/fullcredits/ lists the following for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which seem to be of people playing themselves:

Marty Pistone Controller #2 (as Martin Pistone); Viola Kates Stimpson Lady in Tour (as Viola Stimpson); Teresa E. Victor Usher (as Theresa E. Victor); Kirk R. Thatcher Kirk R. Thatcher Punk on Bus (as Kirk Thatcher); Joseph Naradzay Marine Sargent (as 1st Sgt Joseph Naradzay USMC); Marine Lieutenant (as 1st Lt Donald W. Zautcke USMC)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Joseph_Naradzay says the last two were the only two actual Marine Corp members with credited roles in the film.

I don't know how to interpret that information in the context of this topic.

Reminds me of the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, though this tire version would be for long-distance/endurance runners.

The bread is also a bit crunchy, like a baguette. They are pretty tasty. The relevant Danish Wikipedia entry says it didn't become popular in Denmark until the late 1980s, and points out how a 1981 comedy film, wherein Danish people visit Paris, shows how French hot dogs were not well known in Denmark then.
If you visit the Gothenburg main bus station, attached to the main train station, then visit Sausage Haus for their French hot dog - or try one of the others, like an Italian lamb chorizo.

Outhouses are still pretty common here for someone's summer cabin in the woods. I've used a few, but none as elegant at that one.

Escobar's "Cocaine Hippos" now number some 170 in Colombia "and there is a potential for the population to increase to 1,000 by the year 2035." I can't help but think they would have thrived in the bayous, with hippo gumbo as a local delicacy.