and someone left the cake out in the rain: interpreting the significance of that narrow, non-precedential US Supreme Court ruling

dietetic: an interesting survey of vintage diabetic soft drinks
desertum africanum: a Roman coast highway that stretches from the Nile to the Atlantic
balopticon: the racy, kitschy illustrations (1940s and 1950s vintage but NSFW) of Norman Rockwell protégé George Quaintance
on this day: the monarchs of Spain and Portugal reached concord with the Treaty of Tordesillas (previously) that partitioned the world between the two in 1494