Christopher Hitchens’ epic opening statement on the catholic church
17 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion
Crash Course: Industrial Wind Turbines Pose Deadly Threat to Light Aircraft
17 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
Industrial wind turbines create at least 2 critical dangers for flyers: 1) wake turbulence; 2) collision with blades and towers. The air turbulence generated by hundreds of 50-60m blades with their outer tips travelling at around 350km/h (wake turbulence) messes with the pilot’s ability to control their aircraft (see our post here). Slamming into them, often in bad weather, ends with reasonably predictable results.
Results such as the 4 killed in South Dakota, when the plane depicted above slammed into a turbine in foggy conditions.
Here’s another example of the deadly threat wake turbulence poses to pilots, their aircraft and passengers.
Plane crash blamed on ‘turbulence’ from wind farm
BBC
10 March 2022
A pilot injured in a crash landing has claimed a “violent” gust which caused him to lose control of his plane may have been caused by a nearby windfarm.
The 66-year-old man crashed off the…
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Bergen Belsen- A place of darkness and death.
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On April 15, the 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division of the British army liberated about 60,000 prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
One of the soldiers, 21 year old Corporal Ian Forsyth, called it “A place of darkness and death.” What the British troops encountered was described by the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby, who accompanied them:
“…Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which… The living lay with their heads against the corpses and around them moved the awful, ghostly procession of emaciated, aimless people, with nothing to do and with no hope of life, unable to move out of your way, unable to look at the terrible sights around them … Babies had been born here, tiny wizened things that could not live … A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk…
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April 15, 1367: Birth of Henry IV, King of England and Lord of Ireland
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Henry IV (c. April 15, 1367 – March 20, 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philippe IV of France, to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest, over three hundred years prior, whose mother tongue was English rather than French.
Henry was born at Bolingbroke Castle, in Lincolnshire, to John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster. His epithet “Bolingbroke” was derived from his birthplace. Gaunt was the third son of King Edward III.
Blanche was the daughter of the wealthy royal politician and nobleman Henry, Duke of Lancaster, a member of the Plantagenet dynasty and a direct male descendant of Henry III.
Gaunt enjoyed a position of considerable influence during much of the reign of his own nephew, King Richard II…
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Russia Fails In The Mountains – Basra Falls I THE GREAT WAR – Week 38
16 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
A New Theory on What Causes Inflation with Economist John Cochrane
16 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
George Carlin – Stand Up About Religion
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Blasphemy, free speech
He wasn’t given any chance of making it alive
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: cranks, superstars
Freeman and Champ explain the Lucas revolution
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment
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