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Review of Sun Tzu: The Art of War

16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo

Sun Tzu: The Art of War is translated by Samuel B. Griffith. This short book is a long read about some Chinese history and a translation of military knowledge by Sun Tzu. To begin with, we find out that a majority of the history is educated assumptio...

Reading Up From 9 to 11

11 Sep 2022 2 minute read 5 comments MarvinScottMarvin

I was already awake. It was my day off. I was at home. The house phone rang. I checked the caller ID before answering. It was a coworker. He said, "Dude! How did you know?" I said, "Know what?" He said, "Turn on the TV!" I said, "What channel?" He sa...

Movie Review: Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

9 Sep 2022 4 minute read 3 comments peerynt

[All the images in this post are from moviemeter.nl, used here on Fair Use basis.] It feels great to walk into the auditorium of a movie theatre with no expectations other than perhaps interesting performances by a couple of A-list actors, and being...

A few historical Events 7th September

7 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments By sea and land

1571 The Duke of Norfolk attempted to assasinate Queen Élisabeth 1 of England. 1873 Emilio Castelar Y Ripoll was elected as the first président of Spain. 1882 - Brazil Independance On the 7th September 1982 Brazil declared independence from the Un...

WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL. The United States leading into the Great Depression

6 Sep 2022 26 minute read 8 comments Probs Cheatin

As a result of World War I being fought in Europe and Asia, the manufacturing base in the United States was not only strong but growing exponentially because they were exporting to the damaged regions of the world. Many people remember the period aft...

Pleasant Monday at the Open Air Museum - My Actifit Report Card: September 5 2022

6 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments marianomariano68

I decided to spend Monday in a very pleasant temperature in Park Śląski. More precisely, in the open-air museum located nearby. This charming place is available for free every Monday. It is true that this is a limited version of the tour, because we...

True Tales of Medical Horror: Iatrogenic Syphilis Before Tuskegee

30 Aug 2022 9 minute read 7 comments MarvinScottMarvin

Vocabulary word of the day: iatrogenic; adjective : (of a disease or problem) caused by medical treatment or a doctor. Buckle up, Moonbats, it's about to get historically shameful in here! You may have heard or read something about the infamous Tuske...

More random and possibly unrelated historical facts

29 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Shadowghosts

Just like it says in the title (with commentary) Louis Leakey, the famous anthropologist was ironically the son of protestant missionaries who came to convert natives to Christianity. (Becoming a world renowned anthropologist dismissing his parent's...

Influential Peoples of History | Vasily Arkhipov

29 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments jday1235

Vasily Arkhipov was born on the 30th of January, 1926, just outside of Moscow. After attending a couple of naval schools and serving in the Soviet-Japanese war in 1945, he graduated two years later in 1947. Quickly becoming a member of the Soviet nav...

BTC as a way to tell time.

28 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments 8bitb4rt

I'm an IT guy who sometimes run wires for new installments. Most of my work happens in telecommunication closets. Sometimes no one will visit these closets for years after I finish. Every time I complete a job I leave a special note for the next guy....