Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The season one finale of The Rings of Power contained two major reveals. The first was the identity of Sauron. It turns out it was Halbrand all along, and there were many clues along the way. The other was the revelation that the Stranger is not the Dark Lord but—as many fans suspected—a wizard.

I was about a month into raising a new border collie puppy, Alsea, when I came to an embarrassing realization: my dog had yet to meet a person who doesn’t look like me. I’d read several books on raising a dog, and they all agree on at least one thing: proper socialization of a puppy, especially during the critical period from eight to 20 weeks, means introducing her to as many people as I possibly could.

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As a boy on the poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. “If you’ll pick the leftover cotton in that patch,” he was told, “I’ll give you a year’s subscription to the Progressive Farmer.” It did not seem much of an offer to a spirited, twelve-year-old North Carolina farm boy. The Progressive Farmer was a struggling, eight-page weekly with only about 5,000 readers.

Ten years ago when he was approaching 63, William Randolph Hearst began integrating his $220,000,000 empire of 28 newspapers, 13 magazines, eight radio stations, two cinema companies and vast real estate holdings for current business reasons and so that it should be more wieldy for his heirs and executors. Last week Hearst profits were examined by such divergent publications as FORTUNE* and the New Masses, but nowhere could anyone read what Publisher Hearst intends shall become of his empire after his death.