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History

Orwell’s Diaries

July 30, 2008

Starting August 9th, the Orwell Prize will serialize George Orwell’s diary, publishing each entry 70 years to the day after it was originally written. The topics are likely to be wide ranging from day-to-day domestic observations of his chickens to the political thoughts that would inform his best known work. As the diaries span four [...]

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A Long Way Gone

July 11, 2007

Growing up in the safe confines of the middle-class womb here in the U.S., it is easy to lose sight of the larger world around me. While I count myself a student of history and a constant consumer of information, I tend to focus on specific periods of the past (World War II, the [...]

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Cosquer Cave

January 5, 2006

Cosquer Cave “is the only painted cave in the world with an entrance below present-day sea level where [prehistoric] cave art has been preserved”.

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Stalin’s Super-Warriors

December 20, 2005

Apparently, back in the mid 1920s, Josef Stalin “ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes”.
History kicks ass…

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Revelation of Oldest Known Maya Mural

December 14, 2005

Xeni Jardin, over at BoingBoing posted an interesting note about a National Geographic article: Oldest Known Maya Mural, Tomb Reveal Story of Ancient King. The article explains that the mural, depicting a “stunning story of creation”, dates to 100 B.C., which utterly changes archaeologists’ understanding of the Maya, “proving that these stories of creation and [...]

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