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• Everybody musta got stoned: UW scholar probes drug use among ancient civilizations

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Some of us wondered in geometry class how Pythagoras came up with his famous theorem regarding the relationship between the hypotenuse and the remaining two sides of a right triangle. Madison author David Hillman has a theory about the ancient Greeks that may grate on a few nerves in the classical studies world. It ...
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• "I suppose you will want to know something about the war." Letters from WWI

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  ". . . I suppose you will want to know something about the war. As you will see by the papers we are living in stirring and moving times." The quote above is from a letter written by Sergeant James Duncan, M.M. R.G.G. and dated September 5, 1918. Sergeant Duncan was killed in action on September 23, 1918. Less than ...
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• The Blue Dress Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant For more than 30 years of his life Albie Sachs lived as both lawyer and outlaw in an apartheid South Africa—working through the law in the public sphere, and against the law in the underground. As a result, he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep ...
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• Loch Ness Monster Photographed

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 546
  Date: 1933-11-12 The first photograph of the Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray .
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• Last Post

  
  Walking the Berkshires — Authority: 460
  Not mine: theirs.  On this Armistice Day, 91 years after the cession of hostilities in WWI, there are just three confirmed veterans of that war who remain alive.  Last year there were 10 confirmed WWI veterans still with us, down from 23 in 2007 and 53 in 2006.  108 year old Frank W. Buckles is the last ...
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• The Mysteries of the Medicine Wheel

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Like innumerable peoples before them, pre-Columbian Native American tribes practiced a form of sacred architecture for ritualistic purposes. Unlike the Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, these monuments didn’t require herculean feats of strength to construct. They were, however, enormously complex. Across the Great ...
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• Calling Out All Former Carmen Sandiego Gumshoes! Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Still have some unfinished after-school business from the 90s? Was it your dream to be this kid ? Do the words “Do it, Rockapella !” elicit an involuntary fist pump? Take a stab at redemption with the “ Place of the Year ” challenge—created in conjunction with our ...
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• On the Playing Fields of Politics: Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Iris Berger is professor of Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies at the University at Albany and author of Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900-1980 and South Africa in World History . For many years, she was involved in ...
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• The Bittersweet Beauty of South Africa: Place of the Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Author Richard Rathbone first went to South Africa as the Students’ Visiting Lecturer Fund nominee at Cape Town University in 1976 and returned as Visiting Lecturer to the University of the Witwatersrand in 1979 and then as visiting professor to the universities of ...
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• Three dates: Berlin Wall, 9-11, Lehman collapse

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  Michael Lind weaves a compelling story of how they link together as three transition points of the last 20 years most worth note and why. There is no god and I am his prophet.
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• And then there was Alexander Dubček in the Prague Spring of 1968

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 124
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy recalls that long before Gorbachev and Walesa, there was in the Prague Spring a man named Dubček…. this is a photograph published in his “Hope Dies Last”
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• Fall of The Berlin Wall – 20th Anniversary – Where Were You?

  
  A Blog by Randy Thomas — Authority: 124
  John Boehner writes for Big Government Blog : The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a resounding victory for freedom and human dignity.  On this day 20 years ago, a long-standing symbol of division and oppression crumbled under the weight of a revolution inspired by leaders whose faith in God and commitment to ...
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• History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 479
  Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin WallBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009...you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice and the principles of humanity wherever you go, go out and sell goods that will ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall & the Social Construction of Communism

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 655
  As we celebrate today the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Empire, let us take a moment to remember the bitter legacy of Communism, based on an ideology drawn up not by men who studied human nature, but by an intellectual who studied law and philosophy and ...
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• The Literary Market--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime Geoffrey Turnovsky 280 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Material Texts series This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and ...
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• Traitors--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the ...
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• Honoring the President Who Defeated Communism

  
  GayPatriot — Authority: 655
  It is a fitting tribute on the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to rightly note the man who challenged the evils of Communism, rallied his nation behind him and defeated the oppressive regimes. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has history right as she told our US Congress last week. America won the ...
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• South Africa: Place Of The Year 2009

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant I dare you to watch the trailer for this December’s Invictus —the story of how a newly elected Nelson Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to bring his people together—without feeling slight heart palpitation. Particularly in a scene where we see Mandela speaking ...
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• Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall: 20th Anniversary

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 567
  Jeffrey A. Engel is Associate Professor and Evelyn and Ed F. Kruse ‘49 Faculty Fellow at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.  He is also the editor of The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 , which takes a fresh look at how the leaders in four ...
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