This morning I asked Perplexity AI, Claude, and Google Gemini to tell me an interesting fact about Memphis.<\/p>\n
Two of the three AI agents gave me the usual junk: Graceland blah blah birthplace of rock ‘n roll blah blah Piggly Wiggly blah blah.<\/p>\n
Google Gemini, however, replied with a fact I’d never heard in my 39 years as a resident and my 22 years as a blogger.<\/p>\n
The author Mark Twain once traveled to Memphis to be at his dying brother’s bedside. He observed the way our city clawed back following the yellow fever pandemic, and he was grateful for the kindness locals showed him. For these reasons he nicknamed Memphis The Good Samaritan City of the Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s an identity we would do well to adopt in 2026.<\/p>\n Don’t forget to spring the clocks forward Sunday as Daylight Time begins at 2 —> 3 AM.<\/p>\n Grizz @ Wolves tonight at 7. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n Hilton Garden Inn across from the ballpark is hiring a dining room attendant<\/a>.<\/p>\n Try not to get hit in the head by a cabbage at the Beale Street St. Pat’s parade<\/a> Saturday, March 14 at 2 PM.<\/p>\n Ted Horrell and Canaan Stanley bring the live music to South Main Sounds Saturday 6-8 PM.<\/p>\n Today is National Moscow Mule Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n A geological society convention<\/a> will bring more than 1000 people to Downtown Memphis early next week.<\/p>\n The Crossroads is the burger of the week at Momma’s: Angus beef patty, smoked Gouda, jalapeno-tomato jam, and arugula on a ciabatta bun.<\/p>\n Did you know? Full family memberships at Memphis Chess Club include rooftop access during all baseball games.<\/p>\n Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> This morning I asked Perplexity AI, Claude, and Google Gemini to tell me an interesting fact about Memphis. Two of the three AI agents gave me the usual junk: Graceland blah blah birthplace of rock ‘n roll blah blah Piggly Wiggly blah blah. Google Gemini, however, replied with a fact I’d never heard in my … Continue reading “The Good Samaritan City of the Mississippi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29656,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29653\/revisions\/29656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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