Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
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, 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 . 
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 ...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Postblogging Technology, January 1952, II: Niobium and Zirconium and the Flying Enterprise

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: For those in peril on the seas and skies. Captain Carlsen is back in America receiving...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIV: Revelations of St. John of the Cross

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My employer is serving fresh, hot turnover again, so if you tuned in this week to hear about the prehistory of the cubicle, I'm sorry. T...
Friday, November 6, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1950: Achtung Panzerski!

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  (I found Gene Autry off-putting before I heard the lyrics.) Happy My Vacation Week, everybody! Two things this week: First, this whole ...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, January 1950, II: Isolate and Sterilise

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As I'm stationed at the edge of the world, no gossip this time round! Exc...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: The Hawk of the Atlantic

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A bit of an exercise in dilettantism here, but worth it because this stuff does seem to be neglected in the historiography of the "Rec...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1949,II: Fun with Uranium

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As we've been hearing, during a 1 November 1949 television interview about, ironically enough, the need for more atomic secrecy, Sen...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Postblogging Technology, October 1949, I: Land of the Pale Earth

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R_. C_., Sangaylay Palace, Leh, India Dear Father: I hope that this reaches you before you leave for the high country, sinc...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 20: Green Mountain Boys

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Modern Cyrene is a complex of archaeological tourist traps on the outskirts of Shahat, Libya, although you can't see that clearly he...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Camels, Salt, and the Rise of Islam: Some Small Reflections on a Minor Controversy on Someone Else's Blog

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Westwold, British Columbia, lies in the trees at the far left. The view is from the shoulder of Highway 97C. Arable bottomland stretches...
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Saturday, March 24, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, VIII: Return of the Dead

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Bernie may be dead, but he sure can dance! It's hard to believe that this movie is 29 years old, meaning that it is separated from us ...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, IV: Harness Racing, Equestrianship, Oxhide Ingots and Coins

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Olives are the definition of the Mediterranean diet. They also need to be cured in salt or  lye.  This isn't very relevant to this po...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, III: Folk of Bronze and Iron

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Kaywoodie Pipes, by S. P. Franks. This link has more details, at least as long as it lasts. Call this an evidence-marshalling post, co...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

God Speed the Plough: "About the ordering of ritual vessels, I have some knowledge; but warfare I have never studied."

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Not really  a review, so much as a meditation .  We don't really do literary histories of Anglo-Saxon England, any more. The text...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Missing the Point: On The Economic Advantages of Eighteenth Century England

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You will notice a "Blog Comment Follow-Up" tag this week. And how! Anyway, this is  Brad Delong  quoting "the mysterious P...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

Walrus Ranching: Early Settlement of the Norse High Atlantic?

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Well, finally dragged myself into the library at 3PM the other day, and that's just not going to cut it when I'm working morning sh...
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