> Fundamentally, it is building to an argument for the validity of independence… more
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> Now I should be clear here: dealing with costs in non-monetary ways doesn’t… more
> Joel Kaye has shown that the thirteenth-century expansion of trade helped… more
> Airships and aircraft would both have to wait until the early years of the… more
> But Toto’s remarkable year doesn’t have much to do with toilets or bidets.… more
> During the war, oil and gas shortages led Japan to turn to the nation's most… more
> We have spent the last decade studying how authoritarian security… more
> Unsurprisingly, the broad public reaction is to read this as a massive… more
> For the British Crown, such frontiers were smudges on the edge of the map.… more
> Instead, as we noted in our first part, the average size of peasant… more
> One morning, just before dawn, an old man named Assur-idi loaded up two black… more
> The point of all of that modeling is that despite the high child mortality… more
> What is going on here is the substantial impact of absolutely staggering… more
> White collar prosecutions are structurally difficult because they frequently… more
> So, let’s sum up. What started in the 19th century as a continuous decline in… more
> In more recent years, though, there has been a countermovement to restore… more
> Between 1907 and World War II, Japan saw a boom in new private electric… more
> But by the 1740s, the first signs could be seen of a spectacular change.… more
> Stallman [...] was well versed in the copyright nuances. He asked the other… more
> One of my family's favorite children's book characters is Curious George, the… more
> In this article, we'll examine the history of ATMs—by IBM. IBM was just one… more
> N95s are made from meltblown polypropylene, produced from plastic pellets… more
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> What I want to note here is that these actions were not disconnected or… more
> Given that mindset – the assumption that ‘superior races’ must dominate,… more
> On a Depression-era dinner table sat a can of milk that wasn’t quite milk. It… more
> For 600 years, the waters off Copenhagen have hidden an exceptional secret.… more
> What every South Korean man agrees on is that serving in the military is a… more
> Denmark has effectively eliminated infections with the two biggest… more
> The story of Swiss watchmaking began in Geneva in the 1540s. At the behest of… more
> Parody is protected by “fair use” copyright doctrine when it’s used for the… more
> Shortly after the end of the Second World War, a German man visited his eye… more
> The clearest tragedy during the early desegregation process was the… more
> By the age of 27, he was appointed the Photographic Director for the… more
> In The Land Trap, Mike Bird writes that land holdings remain the single… more
> Before 2006, the Takeover Panel had no statutory authority at all, but… more
> [R]efrigerators are not only appliances: they are also a key component in the… more
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> For more than 400 years, historians, myself included, have accepted the… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
> I am, strictly speaking, an “attender” and not a “member” of my Quaker… more
> I didn't realize that the more popular texts didn't cover the details of… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
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> After sustained campaigning in Britain, the Slavery Abolition Act came into… more