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The cyclical occupation of Moscow and the reformatting of society

21 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/Zmlt9MR1uFY6iV3z The deep-seated belief in the Russian psyche that we are impervious to outside influences finds its roots in a selective interpretation of our history, particularly the 1940s. T...

Historical Hacks: The Citibank Hack (1994)

17 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

This hack exploited dial-up and weak security to steal millions. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack We’ve talked much about how the earlier days of the internet were a very different time, especially with regard...

What The Tech: Nuclear Energy

15 Jun 2024 7 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

In today’s electronic world, it’s pretty easy to lose sight of how different things once were. We had the library before the internet, home phones before mobile devices and film before digital cameras. It’s sometimes easier to think of these as simpl...

Visiting Ousdale Broch - an Iron Age fort in Northern Scotland dating from around 2000-3000 years ago

13 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Hoosie

This is a copy of a post that I first made on the Hive Blockchain on 11/06/24 (link here to original post). I went back to the North of Scotland a few weeks ago, to take my Dad home, after he had been visiting us for a few days. I was born on the Nor...

We look at history through the window of a country house

11 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

  The House of the Mayor of Katowice from 1820, yes, that's not a mistake. Today's city of Katowice in 1820 was still a village whose sheriff was the village head. Katowice was granted city rights only in 1865. The oldest district of Katowi...

Some notes about Bosnia and peopleShood

8 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

I am writing some notes about "peoplehood", a term I have started seeing and hearing more often since I joined our network. So, I want to start in the following way:"My name is Vladan, and I am a hyper-radical-individualist who, among other things, t...

Mizzi Köşkü ve düşündürdükleri! (Mimar Raimondo D'ARANCO 1892 tarihli tasarımı -Buyukada-Adalar İstanbul/Turkey)

4 Jun 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Legend53

Mizzi köşkü ve düşündürdükleri: Bı kaç gün önce İstanbul'daki Büyükada 'yi ziyaret etme fırsatım oldu. Ada'yi gezerken, çok çok farklı bir tarihi eser dikkatimi çekti: Mizzi Köşkü! (Ege Üniversitesinden Hatice ADIGÜZEL kardeşimizin araştirmasi ile su...

Myths about Russia's invincibility

2 Jun 2024 6 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ZjuJoR2EnHXyVhsY If it weren't for the USSR's victory in World War II, there wouldn't be this myth about Russia's invincibility. Russia lost a bunch of wars to the French, lost the Crimean War t...

What The Tech?! Print Technology

30 May 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack Today, we live in the Age of Information, but it hasn’t always been this way. While the printing press provided the first steps towards the true information age, it would take t...

Liberland Congratulates Croatia on Croatian Statehood Day

30 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Liberland TV

The people of Liberland congratulate Croatia today, May 30, on the occasion of Croatian Statehood Day. This day marks an historic point in Croatia's history, when its first multi-party parliament convened on May 30, 1990. Sretan Dan državnosti, Hrv...