Category Archives: history

the name of the word for it is called Haddocks’ Eyes

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 03 by Anton

Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves About 40 of the large mummy bundles are topped with false heads, known to archaeologists as falsas cabezas. Can’t quarrel with that! (Cabeza is Spanish for ‘head’.)

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busk to the future

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

The poet Tom Digby asks (on his own list): Didn’t bards of old live largely on tips and free meals and such, rather than from some giant corporation pushing packaged “product”? Might the Internet move us back toward that model? … Continue reading →

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no surprise in Zimbabwe

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Am I the only one who remembers that in or about 1980 Robert Mugabe said frankly that his plan was for an orderly legal transition to a one-party state? Maybe it’s a false memory.

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just a bit late for April 19

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Riot in Boston: How Today’s Media Would Have Reported It

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the late unpleasantness

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 09 by Anton

Recent reading: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Prima/Forum, 2002). Despite the title, this book is less about Lincoln himself than about his ambition, Republican policy in … Continue reading →

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blinked and missed it

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 04 by Anton

Most Overrated Events of the 20th Century — as chosen by (what else?) a Web poll in 1998-9

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contagion and corruption

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 April 03 by Anton

The Economist (Mar.30) paraphrases a paper on “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development” (by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, American Economic Review Dec.2001): The harder it was for Europeans to settle a region, the greater the culture … Continue reading →

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