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Hey, Obama: About Those Crusades

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

If theres one thing which irritates me about the left in general it is their rank ignorance of history. It is hard to get someone on the left to properly understand what happened even a few...

Dark Leviathan

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

The Silk Road might have started as a libertarian experiment, but it was doomed to end as a fiefdom run by pirate kings The Hidden Wiki holds the keys to a secret internet. To reach it,...

The Closed Minds Problem

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 9 years ago

When I was a young economist trying to build a career, I lived or thought I lived in a world in which ideas and those who championed them met in relatively open intellectual combat. Of course...

Tolerating inequality

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

Inequality sustains itself by generating an ideology which favours the rich. This might sound like classic Marxism - which it is. But it is also orthodox social science, as a new paper from...

The Problem is not the Specter of Deflation, the Problem is the Inflation Rate Is Too Low

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 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...

Point of view

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 18 Comments • 9 years ago

The Crusades: A Response to Islamic Aggression

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 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

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 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

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 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

Via: larry-hampton • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • 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

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 41 Comments • 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

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 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

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 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,...

War Memorials Around the World

Via: ravenwing • History & Sociology • 28 Comments • 9 years ago

As we honor our men and women in uniform this Memorial Day, I'd like to share some very moving War Memorials from around the world that pay tribute to those who have given their all for their...

10 Female Scientists of Note That You May Never Have heard Of

Via: robert-in-ohio • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 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

Via: ravenwing • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 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 • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 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

Via: robert-in-ohio • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 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

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 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

Via: xxjefferson51 • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • 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...

List of Killers with the Middle Name of Wayne

Via: dowser • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 9 years ago

My husband and I were talking last night, about how everyone that is a real criminal seems to go by 3 names, and that many murderers have the middle name of Wayne. Is it coincidence?...

Eshbaal Revealed: Biblical Name Found on 3,000-Year-Old Jar in Israel

Via: ravenwing • History & Sociology • 26 Comments • 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

Via: ravenwing • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 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

Via: ravenwing • History & Sociology • 20 Comments • 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...