How President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons
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Colonization of Africa – summary from mid-15th century to 1980
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in economic history Tags: economics of colonialism
Finnish Winter is Almost Over – WW2 – 028 – March 9 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
.@AOC wasn’t smart enough to realise she will never live down her high speed rail to replace air travel plan
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@BillMaher Goes Off on ‘Social Justice Warriors’: They Just ‘Want to B*tch’
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in politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Ronald Coase Interview with CEI Founder Fred Smith
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, environmental economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase theorem
IBM 1993: The Biggest Layoffs in US History – Cheddar Examines
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in economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
The design tricks that keep skyscrapers from swaying
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Review of “The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Vol 4)” by Robert Caro
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MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST NUCLEAR DISASTER by Adam Higginbotham
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(Chernobyl a few days after the explosion at Reactor #4)
March 28, 1979 was an overcast day in Woodbridge, Va. when news arrived of a nuclear accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor near Middletown, Pa. Feeling totally in the dark when it came to information about the accident, my neighbors and I gathered outside our homes and immediately began testing to see which way the winds were blowing, and should we pack up and head in the opposite direction. Living about two and a half hours from the reactor which would eventually partially melt down, we were scared. Up to that time this would be considered the greatest nuclear accident in history being unaware of the Kyshtym Disaster which was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 29, 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union. After reading Adam Higginbotham’s new book, MIDNIGHT IN…
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