Showing posts with label Dreaming of Cavalry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dreaming of Cavalry. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Rural Crime Watch Area; Or, A Vacation Post for 2025

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  In a perfect world this would be a substantive post, as I left on my summer bike  trip last Wednesday and arrived home yesterday. On the o...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pentomic: A Technical But Actually Sociological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I

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  Detail of 1779 chorographical map of New York (including chorographical details of adjacent parts of New Jersey but evidently not those of...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Gathering the Bones, XXXII: Get Your Kicks on Route . . . Er, 40, It Turns Out

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At least if your musical tastes are as lowbrow as mine (it's a brain chemistry thing, I swear!), the "suggested next video" th...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXII: Tophets, Himera, Weird Digressions

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Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein visits Vancouver Technical High School in 1954 because one of his nephews went there and the Fi...
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Sunday, May 4, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXI: The End of Migration?

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Oh no, demonetisation!  The Continental versions of Penguin Classics are allowed to have naughty covers. Ooh la la! I like the single name a...
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Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: Ahousat/Huelva

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 Let's see how far we can push this.  Huelva from orbit, and a satellite map of Ahousaht from Google. The conjoint estuaries of the Odie...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

The Electric City, VII: Normalising Telegraphy

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  So, and as will come as no surprise, I've had the experience of a short work week pulled out from under my feet at something like the ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

A Vacation Week Short That Is Also A Sacred Spring Contribution: Hurrians, Mitanni, and Owning Land

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 I am just back from a cycling vacation in which I finally rode the Okanagan Rail Trail from Kelowna to Vernon. This turns out to be a trick...
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Sunday, August 11, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIV: Fall and Revival

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  Iron Age sheep shears, found at Flag Fen First, a housekeeping note: There was a hitch in my techblogging process at terms' end in Apr...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXIII: Buttons

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  The Heraion of Argive Hera at Prosymna Like many other cities of Classical Greece, Argos was a synoecism of nearby towns, overshadowed by ...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXII: Safety Pins

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  A copy of Aphrodite the Warlike, perhaps the cult statue in the temple of Aphrodite Areia on the Acrocorinth . 
Saturday, May 25, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXI: Queen of Victory

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  John Byrne, "Goblin Queen" (From a story by Chris Claremont) Good news! My employer has been persuaded that "But I don'...
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Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXX: Quoi?

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  This one originally qualified as a response to something I read online: not here, of course: Over at Quora, where the best of the resident...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1954: Dieselpunk

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  Did anyone else reading this frequent Young and Bloor in the early Nineties? Remember the giant poster of Pamela Anderson as Barbed Wire ?...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Lazy Sunday Outline with Premonitions of Mortality

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 Two things, first, a very late change of schedule; second, a scary moment at the Silver Kettle Lodge as my 92-year-old father seemed to be ...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

A Technological and Political Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953 With No Public Engagement Whatsoever: Willow Run and Dien Bien Phu

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 Well, I might well be on strike next week, and I certainly have split single days off this week. And that can only mean one thing. A Techno...
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXIV: The Gardener's Problem and Smith's History of Virginia

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  It's been more than two years since I've done a "Gathering the Bones" post , and I can report some progress. I've f...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVI: A Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition in the Maghreb?

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  So, three things: i) There is no way that I am not posting this ad, especially the week I read Edith Outland on " the Effingham libel...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXV, With Bonus Gathering the Bones Content: Shining New City on a Hill

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  Queen Dido of Carthage has come up in this blog in two very different contexts. First, "an urn said to contain the ashes of Dido...
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

I Would Run Away to the Air: The British Economy, Montgolfier to 727, II

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  How about that sport history ? Guys, and I do mean "guys," some of us, maybe most of us, are here for the cultural history, for ...