We’ll peruse the Christian Science Monitor, envy a 1950s toy craze, try not to get entangled by the machinations of Game of Thrones, remember Michael Phelps’s breakout Olympics, and visit an Italian microstate that is Europe's third smallest being surpassed, if that is the right word, by Monaco and Vatican City in diminishing size order.

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We meet a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, one of America's most celebrated circles of writers and wits. We go fox hunting with Sister Jane Arnold. Next, we visit a Missouri city immortalized in an R\&B classic penned by teenage songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. We applaud Arthur Ashe's historic Wimbledon triumph. Then we travel to a small Gulf nation that has become one of the world's leading exporters of liquefied natural gas. Ready? Buckle up.

Speaking of natural gas, did you know that Henry Hub near Erath, Louisiana, serves as the delivery point for the benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures contract? Its price is used as the reference for much of America's natural-gas trade and a significant portion of LNG pricing as well. How much of that wealth ultimately stays in Erath is another question entirely.

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