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CSS Reboot

Update: it seems there are some minor issues with this design across various browsers. I’ll check into them ASAP. I admit I’ve been a lazy cross-browser tester About the new design Although I have...

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A people’s right to defend itself

The right to defend oneself seems pretty straightforward to us now. But back in the 1870′s, during the Franco-Prussian war, it wasn’t. The Germans lost many men to French civilians with sniper rifles...

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9rules submission, round 4

The 9rules network is opening up for a new round of submissions, Wednesday morning at 12am EST. Beats me what that is in GMT but you’ve got a time window of 24 hours to submit your kick-ass site so you...

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A story about the Dutch royal riches

Let me first admit that this story is largely anecdotal, as most great stories are. I’ve spent some time looking for facts and figures but again, they’re hard to come by. Just so you know before you...

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A girl with a peach

I was watching Michael Palin’s Sahara the other day and in his trip the Monty Python-veteran comes across a group of veterans in Libya remembering the siege of Tobruk, where a garrison of allied troops...

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America’s revolutionary ideals

So what has become of America’s ideals? There’s a nice timeline at Adbusters in Flash-format listing aggressive events in American foreign policy: This is an archive of 163 US interventions, a...

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Link digest

Propaganda posters are works of art, despite their somewhat dark intentions. Here are some from the USSR. There are even more to be found in the World War II poster collection from Northwestern...

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I’m back

So this website is still here, eh? After a brief period of downtime#{and by ‘brief’ I mean a couple of weeks of downtime and a couple of months of inactivity} I’ve redesigned this site and I intend to...

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About Russian atrocities in WWII

Some time ago I discussed Soviet atrocities in WWII with somebody—who shall remain known as Russian Historian—after he commented on one of my earlier posts. It was nice to hear about history from a...

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Of ‘emperor’ and ‘kaiser’

The Roman empire had a strong influence on the western world. Even today its presence can be felt from the USA to Russia and from England to Tunisia. Yet, this is a story not about law, architecture,...

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