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Ranking the most exciting and dramatic Premier League seasons using data
Football seasons can live long in the memory for many reasons. Club supporters will rely on their own team’s successes or failures to measure each season. The broader football-watching and the sport’s…
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The Home Field Advantage in Soccer
After COVID-19 disrupted football, no more than it disrupted all of society and civilization across the world, and enforced a pause of several months, the games have recently restarted with the German…
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The Periodic History Reader, Volume 1
A selection of histories read in the period covering January to April of 2020. In God’s Path by Robert G. Hoyland [Oxford University Press, 2015] The Arab Conquests and the Creation of…
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The Periodic Fiction Reader, Vol 1
A selection of fictional works read in the period from January-ish through April 2020. Hyperion by Dan Simmons [4/5, for now] Hyperion, winner of the Hugo award in 1990, is considered one…
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Welcome to DorukAkan football
As of December 18, 2019, the dorukakan.com football site, available at dorukakan.com/football/football.php, is live. Over the past several years, I have had several aborted attempts at creating a website. I’ve dabbled at…
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Yogurt
Yogurt is a constant presence in my existence. It is not though the type of presence that is always at the forefront; or the type of subtle but critical presence where you…
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To American Diversity
There is much in the actions of the Trump presidency that makes me uncomfortable and queasy; that stirs anger and provokes dismay; that erodes my pride and joy in being an American.…
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Best things I watched in 2016
This is a list of the best things I watched in 2016 on a screen be it a film or a television show. Obviously best is a subjective term in this case…
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Granola
Ah Granola. So easy to make and so easy to customize to your own specific tastes and so very very awesome. It’s irresistible straight and hot out of the oven, beautiful when…
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Doruk’s Tomato Sauce
There must be billions of blogs and posts about making food and secret recipes and the like. I have no issue with that. I love food. Here’s an easy recipe for foundation…
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Dates
Until the discovery of oil, the economy of Dubai was built primarily on pearls and dates. The latter of course is the greatest of all dried fruits, the loveliness of sweet but not…
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Bangkok Food – Continued
Previously I described the food I experienced during the Historic Bangrak Tour during a visit to Bangkok. That same day, I took another tour in the evening – the Midnight Food Tour by…
