Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Dense fog in and around Basel, and fog in narratives

Meridian lines in European churches, the date of Easter, and the use of Copernican mathematics: J. L. Heilbron's "The Sun in the Church"

Joshua Kimmich of Bayern Munich as a model for Novak Djokovic

Stephen Colbert, President Biden, and not referring to Donald Trump by name

"Keeping an army in Nicarauga": The trope of Jews, the stock market, and American intervention abroad in "The Sound and the Fury"

A flat tire in Prague in summer 1991