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Here a DAO. There a DAO. Everywhere a DAO-DAO...

16 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

"World’s first fully anonymous DAO created to ‘defend freedom’" https://cointelegraph.com/news/worlds-first-fully-anonymous-dao-created-to-defend-freedom?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound Yeah right. I lived and tra...

THE 2nd SICILIAN WAR, 410 - 404 BC: Hannibal's Vengeance

14 Aug 2024 28 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

While the Greek states fought off the Persian Empire in the early fifth century BC, defeating Darius and Xerxes's armies at Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, the Greeks of Sicily simultaneously defeated a vast Carthaginian invasion force at the...

This is a journey further than it seems - a journey through history - Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów

13 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

To podróż dalsza niż się wydaje - podróż przez historię - Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny w Chorzowie You don't have to travel far to be far away, because there are places close to us that take us through the eyes of our imagination to distant places...

Playing chess for the war criminals - Bobby Fischer and Milosevic's Yugoslavia

8 Aug 2024 4 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

In 1992, the world-famous chess player Bobby Fischer controversially returned to competitive chess, playing a World Championship rematch against Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan and Belgrade, in the Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (today in Montenegro...

What The Tech?! Barcodes

4 Aug 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Barcodes play a much bigger role in the world than most realise. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack When dealing with technology, we’ll typically see something that is a complex device or system. Something that v...

Historical Hacks: The Ethereum DAO Hack

28 Jul 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

If you’ve been following for any length of time you probably realise there is a lot that is written about. Following cyber / infosec topics and movements in the crypto space is something that is usually pretty enjoyable for the average data nerd. In...

Focus On: Salisbury, NC

24 Jul 2024 18 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey

  Though situated along a major interstate, I-85, and boasting some 35,000 residents, it seems as though Salisbury is less well known than virtually any of the other nearby cities surrounding it. Even its Wikipedia page is a bit of a snoozefest. How...

THE BATTLE OF CYZICUS, 410 BC: War for the Hellespont

21 Jul 2024 16 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked

With the death of the veteran and historian Thucydides around 400 BC, the narrative of the Peloponnesian War now, in 410 BC, flips primarily over to Xenophon, a renowned commander of his own time. With Athens striking back hard against Sparta at sea,...

THE ATHENIAN COUP, 411 BC: The Battle of Cynossema

18 Jul 2024 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Sparta and Persia, once the most bitter of rivals at battles like Thermopylae and Plataea, had now forged an alliance against Athens. Coupled with Alcibiades's defection, a recent defeat at Syme and revolts across the Delian League, many Athenians be...

Movie Review: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

16 Jul 2024 6 minute read 2 comments peerynt

[Cross-posting - the original post can be seen here.] Directed by Kevin Costner (also plays a character named Hayes Ellison), written by Jon Baird, Costner and Mark Kasdan, this Western of Westerns, the ultimate Wild West drama impresses right off th...