Showing posts with label Goodbye to the Vikings?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goodbye to the Vikings?. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXX: In The House of the Sea Lion

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 The remarkable correlation between geographic and genetic difference in European populations (Callaway (2008) via Bintliff ): (Okay, so thi...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1953: Sluice Gates

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  I'm sorry, Dutch people, "Watersnoosdramp" reminds me of Futurama. This is a picture of Oude Tonge, on the island of Goeree...
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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...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: St. Nicholas

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  St. Nicholas, Washington Irving tells us, was first seen by a Dutch scouting party checking out Manhattan. Shipwrecked on its shores, the...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

The Bishops' Sea: Marine Ecology, Industry Fundamentals, and Ethnogenesis

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  So here is, I think, a pretty basic question suited for a footnote as I gallop through the way that the politics of Sixteenth Century Euro...
Friday, March 4, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Wage Slavery

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  Oops! Turns out that the Statute of Labourers was passed in the twenty-fourth year of Edward III. Although I was looking for a fashion-pl...
Friday, January 7, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Islands in the Helix

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  (The Canaries have a great deal of volcanic tuft that makes it relatively easy to dig out a cave sanctuary or necropolis, something that o...
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Thursday, December 9, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Fine Corinthian Leather

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  There's something a little unfair about remembering a great actor and a great guy like Ricardo Montalban for a tagline from a commerci...
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Saturday, November 6, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Train Oil, The Atlantic, and Africa

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 As close to Sable Island as to Europe, but not the doorstep of America: The Island of Crows. 
Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Our Ongoing Project of Building a Better, Stronger Past

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  This may or may not be on me, but it turns out that I don't have Sunday off. I suspect that after wasting far too much time trying to ...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Seals and State Collapse in the Pre-Columbian

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  So after eighteen apocalyptic months, UBC Library is open this week, and while I did not visit my precious old journals, because of pure l...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Floating Proletariats and the Development of Underdevelopment

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  Sao Tome and Principe is an island state off the equatorial coast of Africa with an area of 1000 square kilometers, a population of 211,00...
Friday, January 8, 2021

The Bishop's Sea (With a Literary Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1950): The Fishing Event Horizon and the Great Forgetting

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 Robert E. Howard was born on 22 January 1906, the son of an itinerant doctor, which doesn't sound like a real job, but, then, we're...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: Caithness and the Matter of Alba

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 So speaking of odd threads dangling out of the whole story of Greenland, how about the "Sinclairs of Greenland and Rattar"? This ...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: Fishing and "The Feudal Anarchy of the Year 1000:" Or 2020, Even

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  From January through October of this year, and most especially through the Canadian lockdown, I helped operate a "corner store" ...
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Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Bishops' Sea: Getting Diplomatic

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Arnarstarpi on Snaefellsnes By The original uploader was Reykholt at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-S...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Plantation of the Atlantic: An African Reconnaissance

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A boat launching in the Banc d'Arguin National Park At the risk of repeating myself, it's worth restating where this investigation h...
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Friday, May 8, 2020

Plantation of the Atlantic: The City of Regret

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By Jerzy Strzelecki - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2998955 Al-Idrisi  (1100--1165) tells us th...
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Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Bishops' Sea: St. Sunniva, Pray for Us

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Sunniva was the sister of St. Alban , the British protomarty, executed sometime between 209AD and 305AD for being a Christian pain in the...
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Postblogging Technology, May 1949, I: Scuttled

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here I am, back at the epitomiser's desk, substituting for Ronni...
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