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Forget for the moment the fuss between Trump and the Fed that is going on now.
Century-old writings and today's politics
Tonight I went rather late (around 9 pm) to a rather expensive New York restaurant; not super expensive where the millionaires from the East Sude meet but one in West Village where mostly successful young (and not so young as the story will soon reveal) people gather to dine and talk.
A review of Normal Ohler’s "Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany"
Why is capital so concentrated and why so few have it?
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Get Out: Excommunicated in Medieval England JamesHoare Thu, 09/11/2025 - 09:02
In the 1970s and the 1980s, French artist Bernard Moninot drew and painted a series of greenhouses. Based on different modes of representation – axonometric projections, outside central perspective and interiors views – Moninot’s greenhouses become autonomous realms. In his aet, Geometry meets poetry. We see the contrast between the greenhouse’s highly ordered transparent … Continue reading "Poetic Geometry: Greenhouses by Bernard Moninot" The post Poetic Geometry: Greenhouses by Bernard Moninot appeared first on Flashbak.
It is a common misconception that life in the Middle Ages was extremely harsh and depressing. This couldn’t be further from the truth! While it is true that, at times, war and disease spread across the land, not all was doom and gloom. People (including peasants) had plenty of free time to enjoy life, […]
The Sisters Who Dared Challenge Caligula
Baptism is a Christian sacrament that marks the initiation into Christian life in most denominations. It symbolizes cleansing, death, and resurrection into a new life. Though a New Testament institution, it has antecedents in Old Testament cleansing rituals. Baptism takes several forms in Christianity, ranging from sprinkling of infants to single or multiple immersions […]
