Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'hist'

I never knew that ‘Mount Pleasant’, near Gray’s Inn, was actually a bitterly ironic name for a huge man-made heap of the most nauseous offal and ordure. It is now, of course, home to the Guardian newspaper.

hist uk cult britain
april 2007 by maciej

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Przemówienie gen. Jaruzelskiego z 13 grudnia 1981
prl hist polska pl jaruzelski stan wojenny
april 2007 by maciej

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Markov's umbrella assassin revealed | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
umbrella bulgar cold war hist
april 2007 by maciej

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Kalendarium (cytaty z debaty Wałęsa-Miodowicz)
walesa miodowicz okragly stol prl hist poland pl transcript
april 2007 by maciej

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Как началась российская журналистика

on the early days of scientific publication in Russia

journalism russia ru hist euler lomonosov
april 2007 by maciej

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The Economic Roots of the Polish Revolt
econ gierek communism hist polska
april 2007 by maciej

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Treachery Act 1940 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
law uk hist wwii
april 2007 by maciej

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The Biggest Aspidistra In The World

monster 600kW mediumwave transmitter used for british black propaganda during wwii

radio psyops hitler hist uk
april 2007 by maciej

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BLACK PROPAGANDA : Sefton Delmer: WORLD WAR TWO

full etext of british master propagandist's book

sefton delmer psyops wwii etext hitler uk hist
april 2007 by maciej

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Taka byla Polska...

great photos of poland under advanced socialism

pl img hist communism nostalgia
april 2007 by maciej

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Pony Express NHT: Historic Resource Study (Table of Contents)
etext mail transportation sf overland hist reference obsess
march 2007 by maciej

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The Art of Bundling

very interesting 1938 text on the folklore and sociology of bundling

bundling soc hist cult us sex courtship etext
january 2007 by maciej

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Courtship in Early America

changing role of marriage from 1700 to early 1800's in colonial america

hist us soc marriage sex courtship ceremony
january 2007 by maciej

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Joseph de Guignes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

interesting and kooky early Orientalist who maintained that Chinese characters were derived from Egyptian colonization

egypt china wikipedia orientalist chinese philology huns hist france
october 2006 by maciej

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Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Notes from Freeman Dyson's 1951 lectures

physics reference hist mit notes lecture cool qed
october 2006 by maciej

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Chronology of Allied Occupation in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920

who sent what troops where, by some obsessive military buff

mil hist cccp communism russia revolution telenok occupation war us brit
october 2006 by maciej

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花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio

Fantastic china blog by a western historian living in Beijing

china blog interesting hist
october 2006 by maciej

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Tales of old Shanghai - Library

absolutely fantastic collection of old English-language writing about China

etext lib china cult hist colonialism cool lit
october 2006 by maciej

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Granite Studio: Those who don't learn from history, blah, blah, blah

historical context for China's dangerous strategy of playing off nearby foreign armies against each other

dprk north_korea china hist ha
october 2006 by maciej

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花崗齋雜記 Jottings from the Granite Studio: This Date in History: Chairman Hua

amusing blog post about Hua Guofeng, the Chinese Gerald Ford

hist china communism party mao hua
october 2006 by maciej

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Генезис цыганского музыкального фольклора Н.Бессонов

fascinating article on the role of Gypsy choirs in Russian musical culture. Argues that "traditional" Gypsy songs were a late invention by choirs that originally only interpreted Russian material

music gypsy russia hist cult article folklore
october 2006 by maciej

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The Long Mistake - TIME Asia Magazine, Dec. 13, 2004

time magazine article about robert jenkins. More details

dprk north_korea jenkins cold_war mil us hist japan
october 2006 by maciej

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Child Labor and the Division of Labor in the Early English Cotton Mills
paper hist econ uk labor oppress
october 2006 by maciej

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The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969
hist war mil cccp china communism conflict archive reference
october 2006 by maciej

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China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles - Project Gutenberg
china etext hist cult lang
october 2006 by maciej

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Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers. Ch 4: Grand Replicator aka Benevolent Dictator (A Slightly Skeptical View on Linus Torvalds)
open-source linux advocacy computing hist
august 2006 by maciej

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Selling Bazaar to Cathedral: Linux Gold Rush
linux advocacy open-source contrarian hist computing
august 2006 by maciej

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The Ghosts of Alfred Dreyfus

nice capsule history of the dreyfus affair

france zola dreyfus hist cult jew mil
july 2006 by maciej

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FC Dynamo Kyiv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

wartime soccer games in which dynamo kiev defeats a series of german army teams

football sport wwii hist wtf nazi
july 2006 by maciej

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The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large

nice adam gopnik capsule bio of disraeli

uk empire hist victorian bio disraeli newyorker jew
july 2006 by maciej

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Why Haven't The Chinese Communists Fallen?

excellent essay by Wan Runnan

marxism china hist oppress econ globalization mao deng
june 2006 by maciej

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EastSouthWestNorth: Rainie Yang Goes To China

Taiwanese bubble singer pisses off giant potential market, tries to make amends. Trying to imagine an American starlet saying "Please give me some time. I will accumulate experience and receive the counsel of my elders."

music taiwan china pop cult hist wwii japan
june 2006 by maciej

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The My Lai Massacre: Seymour Hersh's Complete and Unabridged Reporting for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 1969 /Candide's Notebooks

original articles

my_lai vietnam atrocity us mil hist
june 2006 by maciej

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Bat bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

amazing wwii-era project to disseminate incendiary bomblets by strapping them to bats