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- And not a moment too soon
In February of 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage, signed a symbolic treaty “officially” ending the Third Punic War (which had been supposedly extended by the lack of a peace treaty for more than 2100 years).
- The Character of Japan
Which of the following statements comes closest to describing how you feel, on the whole, about the people who live in Japan?
The Japanese people will always want to go to war to make themselves as powerful as possible – 35%
The Japanese people may not like war, but they have shown that they are too easily [...]
- Barstool Economics
Forwarded from Joe:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh [...]
- The Growth of the Roman Empire
From an experiment by a contributor to Wikipedia:
- To America and Back
Readers will surely have noticed my absence the past few weeks. For it, I apologize, as I was on semi-vacation in the US for a wedding.
From that trip I give you a few quick pictures. I spent most time in my native South and then 4 nights in Vegas. I’ll continue to post lightly [...]
- Countering the Enemy’s Expectations
This story in the Washington Post shows how the belief of many, including myself, in early 2003 that the US and the international community needed the threat of force to pressure Saddam Hussein into compliance with the UN WMD sanctions was for nought.
Before the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein misjudged the U.S. military strategy and thought [...]
- Adventure interviewing
This is the strangest interview I have ever read. It is kind of like a conversation on Twitter. I guess it is for the new book. Here is a taste:
Explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 63, was discharged from the SAS for blowing up a film company’s fake dam in Wiltshire. Countless adventures followed, including [...]
- Is the War on Scientology 4GW?
Well, the gauntlet has been thrown down:
Anonymous have been clashing with the CoS for a while now, attacking servers, defacing websites etc. Now it seems the pulling of this Scientology promotional video featuring Tom Cruise (something they have a history of)has put them over the edge. War has been declared. BUT, this time the war [...]
- The Geography of Russia Through History
And now with my latest post in the CA series on the historical borders of nations through history, I’d like to tackle the growth and recent waning of Russia’s territorial might over the last one thousand years.
Similar Posts: Ethiopia – Poland – Armenia – Persia.
NOTE: As always, these borders shifted over the years, [...]
