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From Waiter to Guest at Nantucket’s Grande Dame Hotel

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One not to miss is “Island People: Portraits and Stories from Nantucket,” a collection of oil paintings, including “Nantucket Indian Princess,” an 1851 portrait of 11-year-old Isabella Drapper, an islander of mixed Wampanoag and African American heritage, by Hermine Dassel, which attests to the island’s historic diversity.

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

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Mad Power thoughts

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Gas turbines are fairly flexible to switch on and off as wind varies, they’re relatively cheap, highly efficient and much lower in emissions than wood, coal or oil. Northern England would now be as brimming with home-grown gas as parts of Pennsylvania and Texas. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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