Monday, June 24, 2013

Plantation of the Atlantic, XX: Making Homes With Bones

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* The Worthingtons may well have thought they deserved a monument to themselves. Owning 18,000 acres will do that to a family. If so, th...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Old Europe: Heathen Rush

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Some people go the long game and build up their skills. Others scrape. We'll see how that goes. I want a graphic, and a semi-re...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Postblogging 1939, May: A Technical Appendix

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I. The past is a foreign place. They do things differently there. Armstrong Siddeley Tiger VI
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Postblogging 1939: May: Full Employment, Rolling Ressies, Rebirth and Debutantes

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Flight, understandably, wants to preserve its patrimony . So I ended up taking a picture of the screen.  These were supposedly being bu...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege, V: Mucking Around in Boats

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Once upon a time in America, a union welding job at 1980s wages was such a horrible fate that you became a stripper to earn your way out.  ...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege, 4: The Black Gang

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* In a different age, boys ran away to sea to become engineers. They learned quickly, they said in boozy, expansive addresses given bef...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

The Plantation of the Atlantic, XIX: Pancakes Versus The Darkest Timeline

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* Two conceits here: first, that economists, or economic historians, often keep their bodies in the real world, while their minds inhabi...