Geitner Simmons
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Staff member & instructor, @UNL_IANR Comms; @OWHOpinion; Plainsman, Southerner, regionalist, film fan; @UNC, @Georgetown; author of sci-fi thriller ANDROID RUN
Joined July 2015
My enovel ANDROID RUN is now available at Amazon Kindle: Julian the android/top White House adviser poses as a noble innocent but behind the scenes uses murder & blackmail in his quest for absolute personal power. Blend of sci-fi, thriller, farce. $2.99 https://t.co/fTGNpxLqHa
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Tariffs aren’t paid by Americans and won’t increase prices but lowering tariffs decreases food prices.
Breaking: President Trump is lowering tariffs on more than a hundred food items, a major rollback that modifies the reciprocal levies he imposed on almost every trading partner
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The house where they made Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is for sale for the very first time since the movie was made. The owners are the same family who rented it out to Warner Brothers for the filming.
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Old-time skyscrapers https://t.co/SpzUO8I5gp
There were about 180 towers in Bologna in the 12th century. The tallest, 97 meters high, still stands.
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In the '50s my father worked for a while as an electrician in the Holland Tunnel. He did electrical work for construction projects in the area. Always funny that my country boy Southern dad wound up in the NYC area for a good while. He and Mom regularly saw the Yankees and
November 13, 1927 -- The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
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“It was Bonhoeffer…who died protesting Nazi worldliness when the vast majority of the religious, the orthodox, the officially other-worldly and impeccably Christian, lined up behind Hitler’s armies and marched in the godless military parade…” - Thomas Merton
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Beginnings I was thinking just recently that when I was the age of my UNL students, there were no geostationary satellites in orbit https://t.co/awvGwu2EJa
The first photo of the Earth taken from space, captured from a rocket 65 miles (105km) above the surface, 1946.
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13 November 1805. Johann George Lehner, a butcher from Vienna, invented a pork and beef sausage he called the “Frankfurter”. It later became known as the “Hot Dog”.
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One of my reporters, in partnership with @NPRMidwestNews, is doing a story about the changes to Medicare Advantage and how they may be affecting seniors. If you know someone who uses Medicare Advantage and would be willing to speak to a reporter, please contact me. Thanks.
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Attn, all parents and others who have read "Good Night Moon" to little ones https://t.co/nXws7NGEKs
#RIP #OTD 1952 writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown died in Nice, France from an embolism, aged 42. Cremated remains scattered at her island home, "The Only House," in Vinalhaven, Maine https://t.co/KX8aUdlJGw
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Beginnings I was thinking just recently that when I was the age of my UNL students, there were no geostationary satellites in orbit https://t.co/awvGwu3cyI
The first photo of the Earth taken from space, captured from a rocket 65 miles (105km) above the surface, 1946.
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Attn, all parents and others who have read "Good Night Moon" to little ones https://t.co/nXws7NG6UU
#RIP #OTD 1952 writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown died in Nice, France from an embolism, aged 42. Cremated remains scattered at her island home, "The Only House," in Vinalhaven, Maine https://t.co/KX8aUdlJGw
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Old-time skyscrapers https://t.co/SpzUO8ID5X
There were about 180 towers in Bologna in the 12th century. The tallest, 97 meters high, still stands.
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Nebraska’s companies create products, equipment, machinery, and technology that are in-demand worldwide. DED was proud to promote Nebraska-made innovations this month at Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover, Germany—the world’s leading agricultural trade fair. https://t.co/jWZcOQSdbb
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Brick removal on downtown Cincinnati building reveals 19th century historical facade.
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Decades back, my main mentor in journalism (whose teachings I now pass on to my UNL writing students) had to batt out a short filler editorial under a tight deadline, and he pounded out a piece calling for the penny's end. A master wordsmith https://t.co/lHTqDjQ3Gr
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Do you know the tragic story of actress Jean Seberg? On November 13, 1938, actress Jean Seberg was born in Marshalltown. An icon of the French New Wave, known for her role in “Breathless,” Seberg died at the age of 40, cutting her promising career short.
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Scientists at @UNLincoln continue to pioneer advanced genetic study of sorghum, here with major $1.6m federal funding. Project by our Center for Plant Science Innovation will focus on genetic factors affecting oil accumulation and stress response @UNL_PSI
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Nebraska’s companies create products, equipment, machinery, and technology that are in-demand worldwide. DED was proud to promote Nebraska-made innovations this month at Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover, Germany—the world’s leading agricultural trade fair. https://t.co/jWZcOQSdbb
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James Cameron on how this scene in 'Wait Until Dark' (1967) made the audience SCREAM like little girls: "The most visceral audience reaction moment I remember from my early film-going years is the jump-scare in 'Wait Until Dark' (1967). People can talk about 'Alien' (1979) or
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ultimate = last in a series penultimate = second-to-last in a series antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
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