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How old are the Wikipedia administrators? at Roger Pearse
You know that I here and most of you as well, use Wikipedia often, it’s fast, convenient, and always available. You’ve also noted, I’ll bet, that many of us don’t trust it for anything important....
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History TV: The Bible And Vikings
English: An illustration of Vikings on a boat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Well, last weekend was fun, at least if you like history (or somewhat pseudohistory, with good characters) first I managed to...
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Railroad Boom
1913 Chicago railroads (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is from The Worden Report. My primary interest here is the report that the railroads are making huge capacity improvements. if you watch their...
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Two Nerdy History Girls: Fake Beards & Face-Paint: the Dreadnought Hoax, 1910
Reblogged from Two Nerdy History Girls Isabella reporting, With April Fools still prowling about, it seems like appropriate to mention one of the most outlandish pranks of the Edwardian era. (Remember...
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A Reminder
Of who we are And where we came from I also note that today is the 71st Anniversary of The target was Tokyo-4 months after Pearl Harbor
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Today in History
Today in 1918 the Rittmeister Freiherr Manfred von Richtofen was shot down and killed in action in France. This was of course the famous red Baron of Germany who had 83 Air to Air kills, and was the...
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Performance Reviews & other Bulls**t
Official warning: This article contains the words that Americans that do real work use. If the F word and variants of the S word offend you, you are excused to go back to whatever padded cell you...
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Gun Culture = American Culture
Deutsch: Georgische Reiter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, London (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is from Frank Miniter writing in Forbes read it all and then come back and we’ll talk some. When...
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John Maynard Keynes, in the long run
I knew the quote, of course. What I didn’t know was how out of context it was. Putting into context makes it even worse. what seems to be the problem here is that Keynes thinks capital grows on trees...
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Logistics, or Winning Wars
Landing craft and tanks at Omaha beach during the D-Day landings, many of which had departed from Penarth (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We talked a bit yesterday about how Operation Overlord was such a...
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Stonehenge at the Solstice
Well the solstice was the other day, and this showed up, and I found it quite interesting bordering on fascinating. If you know me at all you know that two of my favorite thing are meticulous...
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Vindicating the British Empire
English: A map of the British Empire in 1921 when it was at its height with British Raj indicated when it too was at its height as well. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Something that has always caught my...
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Leviathan
English: Washington, D.C. (Jan. 16, 2007) – Susan Ford Bales, daughter of President Gerald R. Ford, speaks to an audience of 300 during the official naming ceremony of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78),...
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Crony Capitalism, Subsidiarity, iDemocracy, Corruption, and a Dichotomy
We’ll start today with an article from Cranmer by Brother Ivo and note that we are jumping back and forth between the UK and US here, so pay attention, the problems and solutions will be much the same....
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Field of Dreams; American Industry Version
The Packard Plant on the eastside of Detroit And so yesterday came the word that the City of Detroit has declared bankruptcy, surprising no one. But perhaps we should look at how we got here. If there...
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Big Wheels Rollin’
In many ways Americans define the essence of America as movement. From nearly the earliest days that has been one of our defining characteristics, moving around, nearly always tending west but always...
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Fast Trains and Big Wrecks
So the Spanish managed to wreck a train quite thoroughly the other day. I actually don’t know anymore about it than you do but let’s look at it a bit. Looking at that picture, it seems to me that it...
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Howard Zinn and the Attempted Murder of Exceptional America
OK, I’ve said here a bunch of times that I’m not a professional historian. But the thing is, I may not have the degrees but I haven’t had my brain turned to mush by indoctrination either. If you want...
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Industrial Prosperity, and Safety
Accession No.: 07_07_000093 Call Number: no. 35 of **M.450.172 Lithographer: Bufford, John H. Title of Lithograph: Jim Crow Jubilee Composer: Clapp, Augustus Title of Composition: History ob de World...
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Hidden Hand vs Invisible Hand
One of my commenters, Amyclae, commented on my Industrial Prosperity and Safety yesterday. It was an outstanding comment and included this link...
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