Blogs tagged "history"

United States · 2013–2017 · Scam — Posing as a wealthy German heiress with a €60 million trust fund, Anna Sorokin for...

United States · 1992–2007 · Fraud — Music mogul Lou Pearlman used the legitimate success of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC...

United Kingdom · 1983 · Heist — Six armed robbers used an insider and petrol threats to raid a Heathrow warehouse, ac...

The excommunication of King John and the Interdict of England by Pope Innocent III was not creating enough pressure o...

King John of England wanted John de Gray for Archbishop of Canterbury, but Pope Innocent III consecrated Stephen Lang...

Stephen Langton has been mentioned before, ordering English Jews to wear a white band, helping Barons draft what woul...

Between the rocks of Namibia and the dry valleys of Oman, there are caves with white-streaked walls and, stuck to the...

About 4,900 years ago, in the northwest of what is now the Czech Republic, someone buried a very young girl with a ne...

On the Turkish coast of the Dardanelles — the strait in northwestern Turkey that separates Europe from Asia — just st...

I use The SEO Framework WordPress plugin both here and on The New Leaf Journal. As of version 5.2.0, The SEO Framewor...

I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am back to finish our week strong (tomorrow being Newsletter Saturday an...

I made ten pre-tournament predictions for the now-ongoing Kyushu Basho on November 6. Now, through day four, I check ...

A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his draft...

The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.

Socialist illustrations intended as party favours for participants in the International Workers’ Congress.

In my recent article on the price and performance of some commercial OCR (optical character recognition) models, I pr...

Community Memory was a digital bulletin board “for the unmediated sharing of information for use by the general publi...

The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by B...

Brazil’s dysfunctional governance is locked into place by the party politics of a corrupt establishment. The Mission ...

Our society avoids confronting the reality of death, and reflection on life, by mandating forgetting of those that pa...

A market divided between premium U.S. models and cheap, open-weight Chinese AI could deny the U.S. one of its best to...

PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated.  I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have und...

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

Hey folks! Another gap week this week as this week featured some other very substantial demands on my time (once agai...

Hey folks! Fireside this week, as we’ve (finally) brought the Hearts of Iron IV (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) series t...

This is the back half of the last part (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa) of our series looking at the vision of history advance...