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The Problem is not the Specter of Deflation, the Problem is the Inflation Rate Is Too Low
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9 years ago
Okay, this is no longer amusing. Can we stop the nonsense about deflation. It doesn't make a f***ing bit of difference whether prices are rising at a small positive rate or whether they are...
The Crusades: A Response to Islamic Aggression
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
One of the most potent myths of our age is that the Crusades were little more than an unprovoked attack by a barbarous Europe against a quiescent and cultured Islamic world. According to...
Man Didn't Create Freedom But He Is Supposed To Protect It
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
L ife, Liberty, And ... : Sen. Ted Cruz and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declare that our rights come from God, and they are censured. That wouldn't happen if more Americans were familiar...
No, the Civil War did not end 150 years ago today
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9 years ago
In an otherwise detailed and historically accurate rendering of the meeting between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in Wilbur McClean's parlor near Appomattox Courthouse to discuss...
On display at the Empire, French cartoonist’s work still relevant 150 years later
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
More than 150 years after his satirical cartoons made waves in France, Honore Daumier is still having an impact globally and in Grand Forks. A new UND Art Collections exhibit at the Empire...
10 Unbelievable Historical Concurances
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
Any time I read about history, I try to put it in the context of what different family members were doing at the time-- where they lived, what they might have seen, etc. This article really pushed...
Hundreds of Dice, Game Pieces Found in Utah Cave Shed Light on Prehistoric Gambling
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
Hundreds of Dice, Game Pieces Found in Utah Cave Shed Light on Prehistoric Gambling Posted by Blake de Pastino on May 18, 2015 in anthropology , archaeology , artifacts , caves...
USS Constitution, world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, successfully dry docked
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
Workers steady lines as the USS Constitution is guided into a dry dock in Boston, Monday, May 18, 2015. The world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat, which was launched in 1797,...
10 Female Scientists of Note That You May Never Have heard Of
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
Rachel Swaby, author of a book highlighting womens contributions to science, chooses her favourite female scientists, from the greatest dinosaur hunter to the inventor of Kevlar Mary Anning...
How a 19th Century Shipwreck Could Give Canada Control of the Arctic
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9 years ago
Bloomberg Business) -- Jim Balsillie toes the frozen lip of a 5-foot triangular hole cut through 5 feet of ice. Hes wearing nothing but boxer- briefs. Its mid-April, and its 5F outside of a...
Secret 1795 Boston Time Capsule Buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams Opened!
Via: xxjefferson51
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9 years ago
Revere Time Capsule 1Boston Researchers look inside a centuries-old time capsule buried by Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.A time capsule dating back to 1795 has been recovered in Boston. It was...
Inventions: 70 Years That Changed the World, 1845–1915
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9 years ago
High-Volume Printing Press: Johannes Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press produced six pages a day. Richard Hoe's giant press in the 1850s, using rolls of cheap paper several miles long,...
D-Day: Reminding Us Of What American Exceptionalism Can Do
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9 years ago
PerspectiveD-Day: Reminding Us Of What American Exceptionalism Can Do1 CommentBY STEPHEN PORPORA05:42 PM ETA visitor takes a photograph of part of the National World War II Memorial in Washington.A...
Magna Carta and the Law that Governs Government
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9 years ago
It was a time of abuse of power by the state, high taxes, foreign wars against aggressive, violent Muslims, cronyism, and unrest over civil, commercial and religious rights. Certain similarities...
Eshbaal Revealed: Biblical Name Found on 3,000-Year-Old Jar in Israel
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
Israel's antiquities authority says archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible. The name "Eshbaal Ben Beda" appears on a large ceramic...
Archaeologists Decipher Name of 'Ancient Astronaut' Maya Tomb
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History & Sociology
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9 years ago
by Reuters MEXICO CITY Researchers in Mexico say they have decoded the hieroglyphic name on the Palenque tomb of ancient Maya King Pakal, revealing it to read "The House of the Nine Sharpened...
Sex and Gladiator Fights Discovered in 1,500-Year-Old Graffiti
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9 years ago
Hundreds of graffiti messages engraved into stone in the ancient city of Aphrodisias, in modern-day Turkey, have been discovered and deciphered, revealing what life was like there over 1,500 years...
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