Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Gather the Bones, 16, 3: Cold Iron

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"I climb to the ridge of the Pei-mang Hills And look down on the city of Lo-yang . In Lo-yang how still it is! Palaces and houses all b...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Electric City, IV: Matadors, Trolley Busses and the End of the Age of Grass

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Pictures first, taken from LaonaHistory.Com' s*  skidding and transporting page . 1. That's one horsey horse! 2. Dec...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Postblogging 1939 in Technology, II: February

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There's always a parachute in these drawings. You would wonder whether anyone with any sense would wait until the plane was in the...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

From Now On: No More Defeats: "Go Light, But Not Too Light:" Kasserine to Medenine

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Speaking of light infantry.... * The Battle of Medennine began 70 years ago today as I begin to write, and ended the night before...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Old Europe: Always Falling: A Technical Appendix

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This is the Rhine, the river that breaks the rules of the old Ionian School geographers and flows out of the Hercynian Forest away from...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Old Europe: Always Falling

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* Nothing is more common than for an archaic state to fail. The   Golden Gladiator   debuted in the first issue of The Brave and th...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Fall of France, 11: Postblogging Technology in 1939, I: January

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* Yes, this blog is going the artisanal slow history route! 1939: The year that the state spent more on technology than...