Category Archives: history

in the Hellenistic age, savage warfare— no, that’s not it

Posted on Sunday, 2004 May 09 by Anton

Bill Poser at Language Log agrees with me: Greek, not Latin, ought to have been spoken in The Passion. (Cited by Prentiss Riddle in a comment at languagehat.)

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morbid

Posted on Monday, 2004 May 03 by Anton

Did anyone mark the occasion when Tom Lehrer’s joke about Mozart reached a certain age?

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autodidact

Posted on Monday, 2004 February 16 by Anton

How Ben Franklin taught himself to write better

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that’ll teach ’em

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 February 04 by Anton

Brad Edmonds: I Still Owe the Military Nothing Truman bombed Japan because the Japanese demanded as their only condition of surrender that the emperor remain emperor. They continued to demand this after both bombings, so Truman just gave in. The … Continue reading →

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knew there was something fishy

Posted on Sunday, 2004 January 04 by Anton

Clayton Cramer reminds us that almanac is an Arabic word. Aha!

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spitting on Roosevelt’s grave

Posted on Monday, 2003 December 29 by Anton

Cato: How FDR’s New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People. (Yet another link from Rational Review News Digest)

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Kitty Hawk Day

Posted on Thursday, 2003 December 18 by Anton

Russell Whitaker (Survival Arts) reports: Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ pioneering flight. On the same day that a hobb[yi]st at Kill Devil Hills was trying unsuccessfully to replicate that flight, the real news of the day … Continue reading →

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