History

101 Years Ago: An Economic History Lesson

October 24, 2008

While not a direct parallel, the comparison one could draw between the panic of October 1907 (101 years ago) and the current economic crises are too good to pass up. The most obvious comparison,is that greed was the root cause both then and now. Some things never change. Consider the following: The Panic of 1907 [...]

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SS St. Louis: Voyage of the Damned

August 3, 2008

Doomed You probably have not heard of the voyage of the SS St. Louis. It took place on the eve of WW II and was a sordid piece of history for all countries involved. It started out thus: The German propaganda ministry and the Nazi party conceived of a propaganda exercise which would demonstrate that [...]

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Smithsonian, Holy Grail, Earthquake Wedding

May 27, 2008

A few things for the curious. Did you know the Smithsonian Magazine had a website? They do, and it has a lot of content. If you have enjoyed reading the magazine, you might want to check the site out. Search for the Holy Grail, end up dead. The Telegraph had an interesting article on a [...]

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Three Bits From Around The Web

October 9, 2007

Here are two things, not of sufficent worth to rate a post by themselves. The last is something that could make a very long post, but which I don’t have the time at present: Fatal Mushroom If you promise to never, ever, eat a wild mushroom, you don’t need to read this article. Go here [...]

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Action T4: Let Us Now Kill The Children

September 9, 2007

Action T4, what could that possibly mean? Action T4 (German: Aktion T4) was a program in Nazi Germany officially between 1939 and 1941, during which the regime of Adolf Hitler systematically killed between 75,000 to 250,000 people who had intellectual or physical disabilities. Performed unofficially after 1941, the killing became less systematic. As it is [...]

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From ENIAC to PC

September 8, 2007

This is only for those who have a little bit of computer geek hidden deep inside themselves. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer and it was, “was the first large-scale, electronic, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems, although earlier computers had been built with some [...]

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The Moravians

August 31, 2007

A little follow-up for those historically inclined. In a previous post I wrote about the proto-protestants and Jan Hus as one of them. The followers of Jan Hus were initially called Hussites, but as time progressed there was strife and splits among them. The Moravians were the result of such strife: A contingent of Hus’s [...]

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Proto-Protestants

July 10, 2007

You know of the Protestants, but what about the Proto-Protestants? A little education in church history for you. “Proto-Protestants is a term used to describe Christian people and movements before the Protestant Reformation who, in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, expressed views identical or very similar to those held by main Protestant reformers and [...]

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Worse Than Pompeii

May 30, 2007

1902 eruption of Mount Pelée You’ve probably heard of the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, but have you read about the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 and the destruction of Saint Pierre? Probably not. Do you know which caused greater loss of life? If you said the [...]

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The Horror of Minamata

May 13, 2007

Minamata: The horror. Some things tell more about the human race than is comfortably faced. In popular modern culture Hitler is equated with ultimate evil. Many try to make Hitler a unique anomaly and avoid the truth of what Hitler’s person and deeds says about the entire human race. They forget there were many “Hitlers” [...]

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