Blogs tagged "history"

United Kingdom · 1983 · Escape — In September 1983, 38 Provisional IRA prisoners armed with smuggled handguns took ov...

United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, s...

United States · 1989–2001 · Scam — For twelve years, security director Jerome Jacobson embezzled winning McDonald's M...

About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking an...

In November 392, the Roman emperor Theodosius I signed a law banning every pagan rite, including those performed in p...

In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, j...

In the early days of Muhammad (c.570 - 632 CE), the founder of Islam, not everyone in that part of the world automati...

Constans II came to the imperial throne as a child, but upon gaining his majority he proved to be capable and even am...

So Constans II survived the attempt by Valentinus to become emperor in 644, and ruled for another 22 years, accomplis...

After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled...

I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/...

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my s...

A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.

Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the...

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...

The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top ca...

Existing AI benchmarks fail to measure the growing capabilities of multi-agent systems. New metrics are needed as the...

We went to Brazil to observe a reformist political party struggling to change the course of their country. History te...

Why do Americans who forecast artificial intelligence capabilities misread China? The post Rationalism and Divergent ...

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...

This is the first half of the last part (I, II IIIa, IIIb) of our series looking at the vision of history advanced by...

This is the second half of the third part (I, II IIIa) of our long-delayed series looking at the theory of history ad...

Hey, folks, no post this week as my work schedule has been pretty heavily disrupted and other tasks had to come first...