Three Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon

Dave Eggers satirizes the sad state of Covid-19 testing in the United States. "Oh, we have plenty of tests. We just don't have appointments." [nytimes.com]

TIL that after the Civil War, thousands of defeated Confederates moved to Brazil, where slavery persisted until 1888. Confederate flags still proudly fly in Brazil, which is home to an annual Confederate Festival. [washingtonpost.com]

Draftsman and inventor Lewis Howard Latimer played a pivotal role in both the invention of the telephone (he did the patent drawings for Bell) and lightbulb (invented a carbon filament bulb that allowed for continuous burning bulbs). [en.wikipedia.org]

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