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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
1st Feb 2026
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities

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1st Feb 2026
In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement. On January 23, 2026, a...
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag Ask your questions below.
1st Feb 2026
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag

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1st Feb 2026
Ask your questions below.
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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1st Feb 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945 “They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common...
1st Feb 2026
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

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1st Feb 2026
“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families, statesmen and philosophers....
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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

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1st Feb 2026
Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights,...
1st Feb 2026
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality

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1st Feb 2026
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights, especially voting rights for women. Alongside fellow suffragist Susan B. Anthony, she worked tirelessly to change the way society treated women. A writer, philosopher, women’s rights...
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Summary of changes for January 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Jan 2026
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Summary of changes for January 2026

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31st Jan 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and...
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An anecdote about backward compatibility A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold...
26th Jan 2026
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An anecdote about backward compatibility

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26th Jan 2026
A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold that ran on IBM System 370. We had that could display (I think) eight colors (if you count black), but the debugger display was only in black and white. I thought I might be...
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Drawing the Future The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass...
16th Jan 2026
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Drawing the Future

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16th Jan 2026
The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass production in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Valley and the world. The post Drawing the Future appeared first on CHM.
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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday...
15th Jan 2026
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Why China Filed Plans for 203,000 Satellites

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15th Jan 2026
The strategic thinking behind Beijing’s record ITU filings, what they mean in practice for everyday connectivity, and the unavoidable global competition for orbital and spectrum resources.
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My favourite etymologies: OK It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
13th Jan 2026
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My favourite etymologies: OK

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13th Jan 2026
It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms...
8th Jan 2026
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After BowieNet, David Bowie Goes Dark and Shuns Social Media

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8th Jan 2026
DavidBowie.com, January 8, 2013. After 2004, the rise of the social web — and especially platforms like MySpace and Facebook — made niche social networks like BowieNet less relevant in the culture. This shift coincided with the slow decline of BowieNet itself. The portal and ISP...
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The Politics Of Destruction. Incorporating the destruction of politics.
7th Jan 2026
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The Politics Of Destruction.

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7th Jan 2026
Incorporating the destruction of politics.
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national...
6th Jan 2026
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The Trung Sisters Rebellion

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6th Jan 2026
The Trung sisters led a rebellion in Vietnam in the first century CE and became symbols of national unity. In 111 BCE, an army from China invaded the area to their south that is now known as northern Vietnam and conquered it. As was their usual routine, they appointed some of the...
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Venezuela killed the U.S. In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly...
6th Jan 2026
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Venezuela killed the U.S.

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6th Jan 2026
In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: in the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S.
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in...
6th Jan 2026
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s

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6th Jan 2026
The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in between, it became a defining look of the decade and a clear break from the stiff formality that had dominated men’s fashion for generations. Comfortable, affordable, and...
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th... “What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely...
4th Jan 2026
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century

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4th Jan 2026
“What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely patriotic motive, that the history of our fatherland might not be lost in oblivion.”
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How Sony Made TV Graphics in 1982 The Sony SMC-70G
4th Jan 2026
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How Sony Made TV Graphics in 1982

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4th Jan 2026
The Sony SMC-70G
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The End of Egypt How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
4th Jan 2026
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The End of Egypt

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4th Jan 2026
How the first cataract of the Nile has shaped millennia of history
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is...
4th Jan 2026
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure

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4th Jan 2026
One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is this: our main professional specialists in abstract though applied to big issues are academics, and they refuse to think abstractly about how they allocate resources.
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
3rd Jan 2026
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It must be nice to have Washington on our side

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3rd Jan 2026
Thomas Jefferson and the American genius
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s? It is a fundamental question.
3rd Jan 2026
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Was the world of the 1990s better than today’s?

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3rd Jan 2026
It is a fundamental question.
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote) Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of...
3rd Jan 2026
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New Acquisitions: Tolkien and Éowyn Between Two Wars (PPP Moot Keynote)

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3rd Jan 2026
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I’ve made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very …...
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The Sirens' Song Can You Resist?
2nd Jan 2026
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The Sirens' Song

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2nd Jan 2026
Can You Resist?
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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s...
2nd Jan 2026
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The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Photography

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2nd Jan 2026
We’re in the crowd and watching in his album of found photos from collector Robert E. Jackson’s archive. Did you push yourself into the heart of the crowd, get in with the ‘in crowd’, and did run with in the mob? Come, let’s gather round and crane our necks, see what everyone …...
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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan...
2nd Jan 2026
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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender

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2nd Jan 2026
Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb entered the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta with their guns drawn. They shot and killed Manuel Teran, known to fellow...
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Thursday discussion post It’s 2026.
1st Jan 2026
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Thursday discussion post

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1st Jan 2026
It’s 2026.
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959 March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959

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1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere) Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s...
1st Jan 2026
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The Art of Remembering Death (Memento Mori) and Life (Memento Vivere)

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1st Jan 2026
Death and its inevitability have been a constant in humankind’s approach to living. In today’s world, we are perhaps not as vividly prompted to be conscious of our mortality as were the ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians. Artworks depicting skulls, hourglasses, dancing...
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America's Khrushchev moment There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often...
16th Dec 2025
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America's Khrushchev moment

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16th Dec 2025
There is no more tired cliché than Mark Twain’s quote “history rarely repeats itself, but it often rhymes”.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions. At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was...
7th Dec 2025
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.

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7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
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Macron in China: Trade, Trust and a Shared Vision for Multilateralism Good evening.
7th Dec 2025
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Macron in China: Trade, Trust and a Shared Vision for Multilateralism

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7th Dec 2025
Good evening.
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971) So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings...
5th Dec 2025
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Spacewalks: Poems for the Moon Age (1971)

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5th Dec 2025
So to keep up with my strange postings, today is strange (bad?) space poetry. I like the drawings that are VERY late 60s with spacecraft and other images mixed together. I also like his approach to using our Space Race as an inspiration to think about what people had done and...
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Che Guevara: A Life Told in Historical Photos from Youth to Final Years Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che”...
5th Dec 2025
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Che Guevara: A Life Told in Historical Photos from Youth to Final Years

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5th Dec 2025
Few figures of the twentieth century have left behind a presence as unmistakable as Ernesto “Che” Guevara. His image, reproduced on posters, album covers, and banners around the world, became an emblem of rebellion long after the man himself was gone. Yet behind the familiar icon...
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx? This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient...
5th Dec 2025
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx?

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5th Dec 2025
This is the third part of our four-part series (I, II) discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites and the formation in which they (mostly?) fought, the phalanx. Last week, we looked at how the equipment which defined the hoplite – hoplite (ὁπλίτης), after all,...
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Pixar’s True Story The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve...
5th Dec 2025
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Pixar’s True Story

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5th Dec 2025
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project. The post Pixar’s True Story appeared first on CHM.
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
4th Dec 2025
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Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

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4th Dec 2025
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
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The Rise And Fall of Abstraction Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
3rd Dec 2025
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The Rise And Fall of Abstraction

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3rd Dec 2025
Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE : A Guide from Chicago Organizers Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect...
3rd Dec 2025
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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE : A Guide from Chicago Organizers

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3rd Dec 2025
Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start? We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt...
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Inventing Breakfast The history of the most important (or least essential?) meal of the day
3rd Dec 2025
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Inventing Breakfast

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3rd Dec 2025
The history of the most important (or least essential?) meal of the day
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Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
3rd Dec 2025
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Alone With Our Thoughts.

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3rd Dec 2025
Lost in the supermarket of opinions.
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in...
2nd Dec 2025
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China’s Almost-War With Taiwan and the US

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2nd Dec 2025
Just as the Cold War was beginning, China, Taiwan and the United States found themselves tangled in a military situation which threatened to go hot. When the Second World War ended in 1945, China was still divided. For years a civil war had raged between the Nationalist...
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The spread of British decline porn Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
2nd Dec 2025
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The spread of British decline porn

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2nd Dec 2025
Why do Americans have such a bad image of our perfectly run country?
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Summary of changes for November 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd Dec 2025
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Summary of changes for November 2025

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2nd Dec 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Thousand Rooms, added an English version with one type of dyslexia-friendly typeface. A Danish version is also on the way. Orca, improved the interface, released an Orca...
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot
2nd Dec 2025
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My work on behalf of Mentour Pilot

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2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002 KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002

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2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922 “A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night....
1st Dec 2025
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922

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1st Dec 2025
“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
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From under the rubble A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
1st Dec 2025
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From under the rubble

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1st Dec 2025
A review of Grdešić and Žitko’s “Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History”
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics? Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
1st Dec 2025
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Who Decides Culture? And Does it Require the Classics?

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1st Dec 2025
Erik Satie's 'Socrate'
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and...
1st Dec 2025
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15 Medieval Phrases That Prove Old English Slang Was Funnier and Grosser Than Ours

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1st Dec 2025
Language is alive. It changes and evolves with the cultures that use it, reflecting their values and unique aspects of daily life. Considering how the slang of younger generations can seem indecipherable to older folks, it’s no surprise that the English spoken in Medieval times...
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How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750 The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
26th Nov 2025
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How northwest Europe attained modern homicide rates already by 1750

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26th Nov 2025
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician,...
17th Nov 2025
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Sandinista! To Our Friends, 20 Years Later : In Memory of Timur Kacharava, Russian Anti-Fascist

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17th Nov 2025
Twenty years ago, on November 13, 2005, Timur Kacharava, an anti-fascist and a hardcore musician, was murdered in a barbaric attack by neo-Nazis in the very center of St. Petersburg, Russia. Although for us, his death was not only a huge personal loss, but also an event that...
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Taiwan Rising Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and...
13th Nov 2025
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Taiwan Rising

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13th Nov 2025
Honghong Tinn, author of Island Tinkerers, shares the fascinating history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country through innovative and creative computer use. The post Taiwan Rising appeared first on CHM.
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How birds got human names Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
11th Nov 2025
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How birds got human names

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11th Nov 2025
Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking
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To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940) A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they...
8th Nov 2025
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To The Moon By Rocket Ship (1940)

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8th Nov 2025
A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...
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Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate) Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over...
7th Nov 2025
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Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate)

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7th Nov 2025
Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the...
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top...
7th Nov 2025
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond

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7th Nov 2025
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
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Can automation help make the humanities more human? Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more...
6th Nov 2025
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Can automation help make the humanities more human?

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6th Nov 2025
Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever before in history
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and... I’m not exaggerating.
6th Nov 2025
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China found in U.S. archives an energy source that could power its future for 20,000 years - and made it work

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I’m not exaggerating.
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America’s most beautiful city Cavalier Charleston
5th Nov 2025
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America’s most beautiful city

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Cavalier Charleston
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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example. All I can manage this week, sorry.
5th Nov 2025
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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example.

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All I can manage this week, sorry.
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began...
5th Nov 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001

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Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
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Minnesota’s Northwest Angle The Northwest Angle is a tiny area where the US/Canada border goes … uh … a little bit squirrely....
4th Nov 2025
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Minnesota’s Northwest Angle

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The Northwest Angle is a tiny area where the US/Canada border goes … uh … a little bit squirrely. When the Revolutionary War came to an end in 1783, the newly-formed United Sates of America and the United Kingdom had to set a border between the now-independent colonies and the...
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag Ask your questions below.
2nd Nov 2025
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag

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Ask your questions below.
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get...
2nd Nov 2025
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down

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2nd Nov 2025
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture adaptive.
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk The Little Disk That Conquered the World
2nd Nov 2025
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How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk

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2nd Nov 2025
The Little Disk That Conquered the World
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908) For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and...
2nd Nov 2025
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State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)

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2nd Nov 2025
For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry “Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married...
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Old But Not Forgotten: Old Couple Find Fun Wearing Clothes Left At Their Laundry

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“Dressed like that, I feel 30 years younger” – Wan-ji, Want Show Was Young     For decades married couple Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and Chang Wan-Ji, 83, ran the Wansho Laundry in Taichung, Taiwan. Over the years many people left clothes behind. Hundreds of items were left unclaimed for a...
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Summary of changes for October 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Summary of changes for October 2025

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2nd Nov 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October. CCCC, added a factorization mode. Bagel, wrote about a cursed programming language idea where instead of cons cells, s-exp represent unordered lists. Rabbit Waves, released a...
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major...
1st Nov 2025
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies

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1st Nov 2025
The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham’s presence in the holy texts of monotheism signifies shared ancestry and a degree of commonality. Many contemporary...
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
1st Nov 2025
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet

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Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives...
1st Nov 2025
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Unseen Friends: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the Iconic Sitcom

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1st Nov 2025
In the mid-1990s, television audiences were introduced to a group of six friends whose daily lives in Manhattan would soon redefine the meaning of modern friendship. Friends, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994, and instantly captured...
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Four Minutes over Mexico: The crash of Mexicana flight 940
22nd Oct 2025
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Four Minutes over Mexico: The crash of Mexicana flight 940

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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on...
17th Oct 2025
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Charming Carhop Girls: Photos from When Roller Skates and Drive-Ins Defined American Cool

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Long before the era of fast-food drive-throughs, there was a time when meals were served on wheels—literally. The carhop became a symbol of mid-century Americana, blending convenience, charm, and a touch of showmanship. These waiters and waitresses delivered burgers, fries, and...
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Xi said every woman is a star on the journey of Chinese modernization "We should jointly nurture an environment that respects women, and morph gender equality into a...
14th Oct 2025
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Xi said every woman is a star on the journey of Chinese modernization

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"We should jointly nurture an environment that respects women, and morph gender equality into a common value and a code of conduct embraced by everyone in our society."
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963) I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most...
11th Oct 2025
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Mournful Mouse and the Space Trip (1963)

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11th Oct 2025
I am not really scraping the bottom of the barrel as much as taking the time to post the most obscure stuff in my space book collection. I collected almost any pre 1980 children's book about spaceflight. I preferred the non-fiction but picked up some strange fiction and comics...
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Swearing and the Japanese Language It is sometimes said that the Japanese language does not have any swear words—no direct equivalents...
7th Oct 2025
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Swearing and the Japanese Language

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It is sometimes said that the Japanese language does not have any swear words—no direct equivalents to English cursing like “fuck you” or “piece of shit”. That is technically true, mostly. For deep historical and cultural reasons, swearing in Japanese is entirely different from...
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The Discman Era How Sony Carried the Compact Disc Into the Streets
6th Oct 2025
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The Discman Era

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6th Oct 2025
How Sony Carried the Compact Disc Into the Streets
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Precolonial India was not rich The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian...
5th Oct 2025
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Precolonial India was not rich

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5th Oct 2025
The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies...
5th Oct 2025
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A history of currencies and monetary systems in the southern half of Africa

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5th Oct 2025
African monetary systems were characterized by the concurrent use of classical (metal) currencies and commodity currencies that fulfilled a variety of functions.
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Sailing for Gaza : A Message from a Wayward American Yachtpunk in the Thousand Madleens to Gaza... Famine has become one of the central weapons with which the Israeli government seeks to exterminate...
5th Oct 2025
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Sailing for Gaza : A Message from a Wayward American Yachtpunk in the Thousand Madleens to Gaza Flotilla

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5th Oct 2025
Famine has become one of the central weapons with which the Israeli government seeks to exterminate the population of Gaza. On October 1, the Israeli military attacked the Sumud flotilla, a fleet of ships attempting to break the siege around Gaza in order to deliver much-needed...
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real. This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it...
5th Oct 2025
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Chinese researchers reversed aging in primates. Yes, it's real.

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5th Oct 2025
This will sounds too incredible to be true, yet I spent the past 2 days fact-checking this and it checks out: for the first time ever, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now ranked as the world’s top research institution) have managed to systematically reverse...
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Of fascination and addiction Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
3rd Oct 2025
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Of fascination and addiction

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3rd Oct 2025
Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025 Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family...
3rd Oct 2025
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Gap Week: October 3, 2025

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3rd Oct 2025
Hey folks! Apologies for the lack of a post this week – a mix of teaching, writing and family demands had to come first. Still, so that I don’t leave you with nothing to read, here are some things I’ve been reading and watching lately you may find interesting. Over on YouTube,...
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
2nd Oct 2025
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot

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A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained...
2nd Oct 2025
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw

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2nd Oct 2025
In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained how decision-conditional market estimates could be used to advise decisions, a concept I soon called “
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REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What...
1st Oct 2025
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REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King

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1st Oct 2025
Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows turned into a prolific career. He gets paid now, but to begin he worked “in exchange for tickets to the shows, and for beers”. King...
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If I can shoot fascists Do words lead to violence?
1st Oct 2025
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If I can shoot fascists

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Do words lead to violence?
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The Euthyphro problem 'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral...
1st Oct 2025
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The Euthyphro problem

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1st Oct 2025
'Is that which is moral moral because God commands it?, or does God command that which is moral because it is moral?'
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Starting From Zero. Finlandisation 2,0?
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Starting From Zero.

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Finlandisation 2,0?
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous...
1st Oct 2025
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness

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1st Oct 2025
The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous scenes of Vermeer to the powerful portraits of Rembrandt and the bold colors of Van Gogh. Here are seven Dutch artists whose work has achieved global acclaim and continues to captivate...
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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review ‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review JamesHoare Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
1st Oct 2025
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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review

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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review JamesHoare Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
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Summary of changes for September 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2025
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Summary of changes for September 2025

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1st Oct 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Noodle, redesigned the interface. Wiki, updated with a new photo. Punk Rabbits, completed 19 new rabbits(#35-53). NanoTalk, released a Nanochat client, written in Tal. As...
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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May...
1st Oct 2025
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2000: The Napster Monster and Apple’s Heavenly Jukebox

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1st Oct 2025
Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May 2000, Napster’s poster boy, Shawn Fanning, was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek magazine in a suit and bowtie, alongside four other “most influential people in electronic...
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense,...
21st Sep 2025
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

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21st Sep 2025
As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense, then clean it all up at the end, doing multiple passes with and to get related changes into the same commit, and then to order the commits in a sensible way. Yesterday I built a...
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers The American incarceration rate explained
19th Sep 2025
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers

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19th Sep 2025
The American incarceration rate explained
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Crucible of the Cascade: The crash of Gazpromavia flight 9608
14th Sep 2025
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Crucible of the Cascade: The crash of Gazpromavia flight 9608

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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
13th Sep 2025
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse

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13th Sep 2025
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
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Skinner’s One Ring To Rule Culture One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness...
13th Sep 2025
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Skinner’s One Ring To Rule Culture

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13th Sep 2025
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968) Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by...
13th Sep 2025
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Babar's Moon Trip (1968)

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13th Sep 2025
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon.  They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust...
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The Final Discman Sony’s D-NE20
9th Sep 2025
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The Final Discman

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9th Sep 2025
Sony’s D-NE20
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE) At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most...
7th Sep 2025
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE)

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7th Sep 2025
At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most urbanized places in Africa.
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

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5th Sep 2025
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant...
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an...
4th Sep 2025
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Voices from the Uprising in Indonesia : Affan Kurniawan Lives on in the Streets

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4th Sep 2025
A wave of protest exploded across Indonesia at the end of August 2025. In this report, we present an interview with an imprisoned Indonesian anarchist author along with various statements from anarchist groups that have reached English-speaking outlets since the uprising...
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin? Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi,...
4th Sep 2025
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What did Xi, Modi and Putin really discuss in Tianjin?

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4th Sep 2025
Here are Xi Jinping’s concluding words to the speech he just gave in front of Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin and some 24 other heads of states representing almost half the world’s population: "Where will prevails, no boundary holds" (basically the Chinese version of “when there’s...
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London at its Dickensian finest What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
3rd Sep 2025
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London at its Dickensian finest

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3rd Sep 2025
What a time to be alive (if you didn’t die from cholera)
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Living by Numbers How we learned to quantify ourselves
3rd Sep 2025
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Living by Numbers

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3rd Sep 2025
How we learned to quantify ourselves
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War In Our Time? We need the men in white coats.
3rd Sep 2025
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War In Our Time?

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3rd Sep 2025
We need the men in white coats.
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How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question? The Taiwan question arose when the Chinese nation was weak and divided, and it will be resolved when...
3rd Sep 2025
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How does China's victory in 1945 still define the Taiwan question?

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3rd Sep 2025
The Taiwan question arose when the Chinese nation was weak and divided, and it will be resolved when the Chinese nation's rejuvenation is complete.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1999 1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its...
3rd Sep 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 1999

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3rd Sep 2025
1999 Napster software running on Windows 98; photo by Christiaan Colen. When AOL completed its acquisition of Netscape in March 1999, a part of the old web died forever. By the end of the year (and the century), Netscape's share of the browser market had shrunk to about 20% and...
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The End Is Not the End Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
2nd Sep 2025
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The End Is Not the End

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2nd Sep 2025
Seneca on Death, Dignity, and Inner Freedom
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A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest...
2nd Sep 2025
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A Closer Look At: Ardipithecus ramidus

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2nd Sep 2025
Ardipithecus ramidus is one of the most complete hominid skeletons found so far, and the earliest one to be unequivocally accepted as a bipedal human ancestor. In 1981, a group of paleontologists who had been working at the fossil site in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia made a...
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976 In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in...
1st Sep 2025
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People On The Liberty Island Ferry in 1976

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1st Sep 2025
In 1976, Bill Antin was riding the Liberty Island ferry that connects Manhattan to Liberty Island in New York City. Were you? If this is you or someone you recognise in these pictures, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. For the rest of us, let’s imagine the stories...
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Did Socrates’ Final Joke Fly Over Nietzsche’s Head? Nietzsche’s complex, occasionally baffling sense of humor usually entertains, sometimes enlightens...
1st Sep 2025
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Did Socrates’ Final Joke Fly Over Nietzsche’s Head?

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1st Sep 2025
Nietzsche’s complex, occasionally baffling sense of humor usually entertains, sometimes enlightens and often perplexes his readers. Scholars are often divided over whether or not Nietzsche is at times joking or serious. His being no stranger to comedy, we would expect Nietzsche...
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review ‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
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‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review

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1st Sep 2025
‘Central Europe’ by Luka Ivan Jukic review JamesHoare Mon, 09/01/2025 - 09:10
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
19th Aug 2025
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century

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19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in...
18th Aug 2025
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025

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CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s. The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
13th Aug 2025
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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning

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13th Aug 2025
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
13th Aug 2025
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The Birth of the Modern Moral Panic

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13th Aug 2025
How the gin craze set a template for fear of intoxicants
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How many are criminals? Probably more than you think...
11th Aug 2025
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How many are criminals?

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11th Aug 2025
Probably more than you think...
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Not at the table: Europe's colonial moment The upcoming negotiations in Alaska between Trump and Putin tells you all you ought to know about...
10th Aug 2025
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Not at the table: Europe's colonial moment

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10th Aug 2025
The upcoming negotiations in Alaska between Trump and Putin tells you all you ought to know about the nature of the Ukraine war, and Europe's current geopolitical status.
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
9th Aug 2025
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Dr. Morell and the Patient A

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A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
6th Aug 2025
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It Gets Worse.

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6th Aug 2025
This time, there will be consequences.
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David Bowie’s 1999 Gaming Adventure and Virtual Album One of David Bowie's characters in the 1999 3D game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. On May 12, 1999, a...
5th Aug 2025
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David Bowie’s 1999 Gaming Adventure and Virtual Album

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5th Aug 2025
One of David Bowie's characters in the 1999 3D game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul. On May 12, 1999, a surprising announcement came over the wires. “Eidos Interactive, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, today announced a collaboration with...
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review ‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review

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‘The Colonialist’ by William Kelleher Storey review JamesHoare Mon, 08/04/2025 - 09:08
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in...
3rd Aug 2025
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration

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3rd Aug 2025
Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in 22-20BC, a pair of Roman centurions was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kush in 61-63 CE to gather intelligence for a planned campaign against the kingdom by the Emperor Nero.
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
1st Aug 2025
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

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1st Aug 2025
My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from...
1st Aug 2025
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I Am a Stranger in This Country: An Outsider Photographs Britain and Ireland’s Travellers

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1st Aug 2025
In I Am a Stranger in This Country Berlin-based photograph Frederik Rüegger shows us pictures from the two years he spent visiting the Roma and Traveller communities in Britain and Ireland. The book’s title is a nod to his reflects his status as a foreigner abroad and the...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of...
1st Aug 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation

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1st Aug 2025
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived. Last week, we looked at...
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Secrets of the Sophists Man is the Measure of All Things...
1st Aug 2025
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Secrets of the Sophists

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1st Aug 2025
Man is the Measure of All Things...
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate...
1st Aug 2025
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band

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1st Aug 2025
It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina’s premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, “Hope Against Hope.”...
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Summary of changes for July 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Aug 2025
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Summary of changes for July 2025

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1st Aug 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of July. Catjam 2025, finished a small game called Polycat! 100r.ca, added Vancouver Island West Coast, Ucluelet, Port San Juan, Juan de Fuca Strait and Cadboro Bay. Theme Editor, made a...
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich...
1st Aug 2025
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7 Historical Places to Visit On Your Way to the Isle of Skye

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1st Aug 2025
Scotland draws tourists year-round to discover its stunning nature, fantastic views, and rich history. The Isle of Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebrides islands and is famous for its breathtaking views. You can discover the top places to visit on the Isle of Skye here. If...
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
31st Jul 2025
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

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Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have...
10th Jul 2025
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Picking Fights : Seventeen Years of Organizing in the Seattle Solidarity Network

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10th Jul 2025
In the following reflections, participants in the Seattle Solidarity Network share what they have learned in the course of seventeen years of experimenting with tactics via which workers and tenants can act together against bosses and landlords. For an action-obsessed group like...
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Burton Grad: A Tribute CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his...
8th Jul 2025
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Burton Grad: A Tribute

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8th Jul 2025
CHM offers a tribute to a special computing pioneer who worked with CHM for decades, sharing his passion for the history of software with the world. The post Burton Grad: A Tribute appeared first on CHM.
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture. Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been...
6th Jul 2025
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture.

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6th Jul 2025
Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been one of the first of the arts to adopt new materials and techniques.
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Pensioners for war Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of...
5th Jul 2025
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Pensioners for war

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5th Jul 2025
Many years ago when I lived in Belgrade, just before the beginning of the “Yugoslav Wars of Succession”, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962 Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
5th Jul 2025
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My Weekly Reader February 4, 1962

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5th Jul 2025
Happy 4th of July! Here is your My Weekly Reader for "Happy 4th of February, 1962."
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something...
4th Jul 2025
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

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4th Jul 2025
As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or...
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An Apology And A Few Suggestions. More next week.
2nd Jul 2025
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An Apology And A Few Suggestions.

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2nd Jul 2025
More next week.
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The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
2nd Jul 2025
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The rise of life expectancy

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2nd Jul 2025
Illustrated and explained
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On the Making of the Modern State Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
2nd Jul 2025
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On the Making of the Modern State

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2nd Jul 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
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14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025 Good afternoon.
2nd Jul 2025
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14 things to know before traveling to China in 2025

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2nd Jul 2025
Good afternoon.
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To...
1st Jul 2025
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light

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1st Jul 2025
We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Good bye — Emily Dickinson  They say that the glow of the sky you see at night isn’t starlight but leftover light from the Big Bang. Light is ancient and magical. Away …...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
1st Jul 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments

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1st Jul 2025
The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius JamesHoare Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:00
1st Jul 2025
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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius

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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius JamesHoare Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:00
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism? I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most...
1st Jul 2025
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Did Israel's War Kill Zionism?

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1st Jul 2025
I recently stumbled upon an analysis of the Iran-Israel war that I found to be one of the most thought-provoking I’d heard to date.
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading...
1st Jul 2025
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1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow

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1st Jul 2025
CDnow homepage, December 1998; via Wayback Machine. 1998 started promisingly for CDnow, a leading online music retailer — or "e-tailer" as e-commerce sites were sometimes called at the time. "CDnow goes public with a bang," read a CNET headline on February 10, 1998: "After upping...
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603
30th Jun 2025
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Insidious Truths: The crashes of Birgenair flight 301 and Aeroperú flight 603

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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything. It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and...
24th Jun 2025
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The key lesson from Iran? Kim Jong Un was right about everything.

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24th Jun 2025
It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war.
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Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by...
23rd Jun 2025
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Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative

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CHM’s Tech and the Future of News initiative decoded the impact of new technologies powered by artificial intelligence on journalism and the news industry. The post Tech and the Future of News: A CHM Initiative appeared first on CHM.
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Africa's Poor Numbers How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
22nd Jun 2025
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Africa's Poor Numbers

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22nd Jun 2025
How much do we really know about African state of affairs?
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism. The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little...
22nd Jun 2025
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism.

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22nd Jun 2025
The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little basis in the historical geographies and political relationships of the pre-colonial period.
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My Weekly Reader November 6, 1961 It is your Weekly Reader for this week of November 6, 1961. Here is the space flight news of this...
6th Jun 2025
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My Weekly Reader November 6, 1961

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6th Jun 2025
It is your Weekly Reader for this week of November 6, 1961. Here is the space flight news of this week.
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman...
6th Jun 2025
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part I

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6th Jun 2025
This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman battle sequence in film: the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). Despite being a relatively short sequence (about ten minutes), there’s actually enough to talk about here that...
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After "Victory." How much is enough?
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After "Victory."

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4th Jun 2025
How much is enough?
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Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War Decaf or Java — which version of MTV's website should you choose? Part of the reason it was so...
4th Jun 2025
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Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War

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4th Jun 2025
Decaf or Java — which version of MTV's website should you choose? Part of the reason it was so difficult for both digital music and video webcasts to gain traction on the web over 1997 was the fickleness of the underlying software: the web browser. Throughout the year, a host of...
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Difficulties with Fanon Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
3rd Jun 2025
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Difficulties with Fanon

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3rd Jun 2025
Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
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China ramps up South Asia trade ties From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri...
2nd Jun 2025
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China ramps up South Asia trade ties

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2nd Jun 2025
From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review ‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review

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‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
1st Jun 2025
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Weekly Wisdom Quiz

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1st Jun 2025
Ancient Egypt, Diogenes, and more!
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32 Hotdogs and A Pocketful of Chops: Eating With Duke Ellington Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious...
1st Jun 2025
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32 Hotdogs and A Pocketful of Chops: Eating With Duke Ellington

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1st Jun 2025
Duke Ellington (born Edward Kennedy Ellington; April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) had a voracious appetite for sex and food. The elegant American jazz pianist, composer, master of instrumental colour and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra wrote thousands of songs and performed...
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What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology? Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they...
1st Jun 2025
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What Is the History of Belief Bias in Cognitive Psychology?

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1st Jun 2025
Belief bias is a cognitive bias that makes us assess knowledge claims based on how believable they sound, rather than how logical they are. As a result, we may accept believable yet logically invalid claims, and reject unbelievable yet logically valid ones. As one of the earliest...
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
27th May 2025
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How a Chinese MAGA hat maker got caught in Trump's trade war

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27th May 2025
Love Trump? Buy a hat. Hate him? Still buy a hat. But "Brother Wang" neither loves nor hates.
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Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
13th May 2025
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Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492

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13th May 2025
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The Assimilation Myth Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
9th May 2025
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The Assimilation Myth

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9th May 2025
Across the world, ethnic socioeconomic disparities are here to stay
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The Occupation of the Sha'ban al-Dalou Building : A Report-Back from the University of Washington In this anonymously submitted report, participants in the occupation of the engineering building at...
9th May 2025
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The Occupation of the Sha'ban al-Dalou Building : A Report-Back from the University of Washington

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In this anonymously submitted report, participants in the occupation of the engineering building at the University of Washington explore their motivations and recount the events in detail. This courageous action comes as the Israeli military prepares to open a new chapter in its...
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder Historians are finally having their AI debate
7th May 2025
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder

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7th May 2025
Historians are finally having their AI debate
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an...
7th May 2025
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

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7th May 2025
The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an interview featured in the 1998 book “The Interactive Music Handbook,” Larry Rosen — CEO of an online music services company called N2K — provided his theory on how the internet would...
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
6th May 2025
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery

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Real Monks Cry: Masculinity in the Monastery JamesHoare Tue, 05/06/2025 - 08:55
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Another Of My Essays In French. "C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
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Another Of My Essays In French.

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4th May 2025
"C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
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Stone towns on the Highveld of South Africa: an archaeological history of the Sotho-Tswana capitals... The eastern plateau of South Africa, known as the Highveld, is dotted with the ruins of numerous...
4th May 2025
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Stone towns on the Highveld of South Africa: an archaeological history of the Sotho-Tswana capitals (ca. 1450-1850)

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4th May 2025
The eastern plateau of South Africa, known as the Highveld, is dotted with the ruins of numerous stone towns founded at the end of the Middle Ages.
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A view of the world After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian...
4th May 2025
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A view of the world

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4th May 2025
After the Global Financial Crisis, the World Bank got more much involved in South-East Asian countries than before.
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The Bards of the Second Reformation 'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
3rd May 2025
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The Bards of the Second Reformation

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3rd May 2025
'John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs' by Ian Leslie
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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know...
2nd May 2025
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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

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2nd May 2025
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then holds up his hand with that ‘wait for it’ gesture and then shouts ‘loose!’ (or worse yet, ‘fire!’)...
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Journey to the Sun (1961) The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and...
2nd May 2025
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Journey to the Sun (1961)

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2nd May 2025
The second promotional comic I wanted to share is Journey to the Sun. It is also from Boys’ and Girls’ March of Comics and the only other one I've found that is about space flight.  It was handed to customers of stores that sold Little Yankee Shoes.   Journey to the Sun is a...
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Abstraction Worsens Drift My Ph.D.
2nd May 2025
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Abstraction Worsens Drift

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2nd May 2025
My Ph.D.
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Summary of changes for June 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd May 2025
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Summary of changes for June 2025

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2nd May 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. 100r.ca, updated costs, hauling out, united states and teapot gelcoat. Added san juan islands. Rabbit Waves, added all content links to the main page, released a new page called...
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch...
1st May 2025
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Charles V: The Holy Roman Emperor Who Shaped Europe

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1st May 2025
Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and parts of Italy. Throughout his reign, Emperor Charles V fought to keep his empire together against his French,...
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A puzzle about balancing test tubes in a centrifuge Suppose a centrifuge has slots, arranged in a circle around the center, and we have test tubes we...
1st May 2025
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A puzzle about balancing test tubes in a centrifuge

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1st May 2025
Suppose a centrifuge has slots, arranged in a circle around the center, and we have test tubes we wish to place into the slots. If the tubes are not arranged symmetrically around the center, the centrifuge will explode. (By "arranged symmetrically around the center, I mean that...
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Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars “Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare,...
1st May 2025
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Dorothy Pulis Lathrop’s Illustrations For Walter de la Mare’s The Three Mulla-Mulgars

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1st May 2025
“Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare, The Three Mulla-Mulgars illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop   Soon after Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891–December 30, 1980) was hired to illustrate a book of experimental...
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Summary of changes for April 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Apr 2025
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Summary of changes for April 2025

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30th Apr 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. 100r.ca, updated water, ditch bag, woodstove installation, and added new photos and information on first-aid kit. Rabbit Waves, updated Triangular Bandages with animated gifs,...
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge [ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31...
25th Apr 2025
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How our toy octopuses got revenge on a Philadelphia traffic court judge

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25th Apr 2025
[ Content warning: possibly amusing, but silly and pointless ] My wife Lorrie wrote this on 31 January 2013: I got an e-mail from Husband titled, "The mills of Fenchurch grind slow, but they grind exceeding small." This silliness, which is off-the-charts silly, is going to...
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The Assimilation Myth: America Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
9th Apr 2025
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The Assimilation Myth: America

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9th Apr 2025
Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much...
6th Apr 2025
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.

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6th Apr 2025
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965 A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I...
4th Apr 2025
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Caroline Sur La Lune (Caroline on the Moon) 1965

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4th Apr 2025
A nice treat today as Caroline goes to the Moon! This was a popular French fictional series but I had not been able to find the one about the Moon trip until recently. The illustrations are beautiful and full color. Well worth examining each one for its details. Pierre Probst...
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025 Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for...
4th Apr 2025
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Fireside Friday, April 4, 2025

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4th Apr 2025
Fireside this week! I am still a bit behind after attending the annual meeting of the Society for Military History – conferences always leave me a bit tired and slow to get back to writing, even as they also stimulate my thinking – so the conclusion of our look at Rings of Power...
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A Demonstrator's Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading. There is a...
3rd Apr 2025
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A Demonstrator's Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades

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3rd Apr 2025
A complete guide to assembling and employing lockboxes and other means of blockading. There is a broad spectrum of tactics to choose from between simply holding up a protest sign and setting things on fire. If you are looking to intensify a pressure campaign or to stand your...
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Futarchy For Fundraising The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of...
2nd Apr 2025
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Futarchy For Fundraising

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2nd Apr 2025
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet...
2nd Apr 2025
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

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2nd Apr 2025
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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Being Non-Transactional. Beyond "What's in it for me?"
2nd Apr 2025
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Being Non-Transactional.

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2nd Apr 2025
Beyond "What's in it for me?"
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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

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2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
2nd Apr 2025
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Do you want to be a synonym?

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2nd Apr 2025
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling David Bowie's first website, 1995; via leontakesusoutside.com. As the internet became more...
2nd Apr 2025
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling

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2nd Apr 2025
David Bowie's first website, 1995; via leontakesusoutside.com. As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this. On August 6, 1995, the domain...
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A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War...
1st Apr 2025
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A Brief History of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

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1st Apr 2025
The idea of a communist Hungary is usually associated with the Cold War that arose post-World War II. Hungary, however, had a brush with communist leadership several decades before, in the aftermath of the First World War.   The short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic ultimately...
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel...
1st Apr 2025
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The Assassination of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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1st Apr 2025
Civil rights icon Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, on a motel balcony in Memphis. One of the earliest successes of the civil rights movement was a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.  In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her...
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