Dive into the archives.
- Moslem Anti-Kemalist Turks capture Sinkiang!
The Opposite End of China has a jolly good collection of headlines pulled from the New York Times archive between March 1933, when news of a Muslim uprising in western China reached New York, and January 1934, when an independent East Turkestan was established with it’s capital in Kashgar. This should take any great [...]
- Remember
Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele. This is where Canada first came onto the international scene, the fields where our country was forged. Out of a population of just over 7 million, 66,944 were killed and 149,732 were wounded. Never forget their sacrifice.
- The strategy pendulum
Lex brought to our attention a couple of criticisms of Kaplan’s latest article in the Atlantic from both the left and the right. I don’t think these criticisms are fair. First of all, I didn’t read the article as a throwback to another era or as the prioritization of the navy over other services. [...]
- “New Great Game”? Says Who?
I was just checking out the wikipedia article for the “Great Game“, a phrase coined ala-”World War II” to describe a series of political and military events and which all the namesakes to this blog were contributors. In the article, I saw this sub-section:
New Great Game
Main article: New Great GameWith the end of the [...]
- 24 in 1994
Longish hair, grunge t-shirts, beepers, internet by the hour… Good times… NOT!
- Take a survey — for science
... or else the terrorists have already won!
CA field officer TDAXP would like you to take a survey, link avaliable here. The subject matter: blogging.
Quoting:
Identification of Project: Creativity and Blogging
Purpose of the Research:
This is a research project to study the correlation between cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitudes on creativity in the domain of blogging. [...]
- Gender Gap 07
The World Economic Forum’s annual Gender Gap report has been released. Here are some of the ranking highlights:
Of interest Top 5 Ranked Bottom 5 Ranked 18 Canada (down by 2) 31 America (down by 6) 73 China (down by 3) 91 Japan (down by 3) 97 Korea (up by 4) [...]
- The Human Cost of War
This photo of a Rwandan woman embracing the daughter born from rape during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 has won the National Portrait Gallery’s annual photographic prize.
The above picture of Joseline Ingabire, a Tutsi, embracing her second daughter Leah Batamuliza, was taken by photographer Jonathan Torgovnik as part of a series documenting the lives of [...]
- You can call a cat a duck, but it will not fly
Managing once again to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, Japan’s main opposition party the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has suffered complete chaos over the past several days. After considering alliances with either smaller opposition parties or a grand alliance with the long-time ruling Liberal Democrats, DPJ leader Ichiro Ozawa resigned after [...]
- Swiss Elections
Via Maproom comes this interactive map of the Swiss elections from several weeks ago.
Switzerland is a tapestry of languages and heritages, and its politics is equally mixed—the Swiss People’s Party came out ahead with 29% of the vote, followed by the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with 19.5%, the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland with [...]
