Lots of stuff to check out on the web this week. Among other things, be sure to give the following a look: Quartz offers Aamna Mohdin’s piece, “The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence.” It seems that a recent study has shown that the same families have controlled…

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My father used to tell me a story about his youth. When he left the navy, he went back to work for a while at an aircraft factory in Wichita, Kansas. (Wichita is, btw, the nation’s capital when it comes to small and private plane manufacturing. Beechcraft, Cessna, and Learjet, all had their start there.)…

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