Dive into the archives.
- The History of Male Circumcision, Part 1
I’ve covered the histories of salt and chili pepper and other various topics previously, but in this post I’m going to take a topic all together different and review the history of male circumcision. Today most Americans think of cutting off the foreskin for males shortly after birth as completely natural. Yet this [...]
- Paying for war
While reading Ken Pyle’s Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power And Purpose I came across some interesting info about the second world war reparations for Taiwan and China that I had not heard before.
First of all, after the war under the terms of the Treaty of San Francisco Japan paid a number of South [...]
- 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 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, [...]
- Haunting, random photography
From MirrorWorld
... the singular brilliance of photography is it’s [sp.] capacity for allowing hacks & amateurs to create the accidental, offhand masterpiece. Your grandma has no great unread novels or perfect lost symphonies written by her & still tucked away in a drawer in some upstairs closet – but the odds are she does have [...]
- The Origins of World War I
Great graphic from Wikipedia on the web of alliances that resulted in the explosion that was World War I.
- Warlord Psychology
Via ChicagoBoyz this link to Kent’s Imperative titled, “Enigmatic biographies of the damned.”
Via the Economist this week, we learn of the death of an adversary whose kind has nearly been forgotten. Khun Sa was a warlord who amassed a private army and smuggling operation which dominated Asian heroin trafficking from remotest Burma over the course [...]
- JFK – NSFW
Brad Neely, the internet phenomenon made famous for his brilliantly twisted animated music video about George Washington (which used to be on YouTube), strikes again with an educational ditty about JFK. Check out Professor Brothers present History Lesson #1.
- If the Romans could see us now…
Sent from a reader:
The city of Rome will light up the Coliseum, which has become an international symbol of capital punishment this evening, when New Jersey repeals its death penalty. Rome’s Colosseum, once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, has become a symbol of the fight against capital punishment. Since 1999, the first [...]
- Over there
The first map to use the word “America” was drawn in 1507 and in 2003 cost the Library of Congress $10 million to acquire. Read about where the map came from in The Atlantic Monthly.
