Laser Archaeology: Revealing the Amazon’s Urban Jungle
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in economic history, urban economics
Top 10 Things Elvis (2022) Got Factually Right & Wrong
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in movies, Music, television
Hitler and the origins of the war, 1919-1939 | Richard J. EVANS
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in defence economics, economic history, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
What It Was Like to Be In the Mob
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in economics of crime, law and economics
Resolved: The Hollywood Reds did more Harm than Good. October 27 2005 Ronald Radosh
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, movies, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Cold War, World War II
The Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Part XI: Aftermath
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Aftermath
The Holy Roman Empire, an institution which had lasted for just over a thousand years, did not pass unnoticed or unlamented. The dissolution of the empire sent shockwaves through Germany, with most of the reactions within the former imperial boundaries being rage, grief or shame.
Even the signatories of the Confederation of the Rhine were outraged; the Bavarian emissary to the imperial diet, Rechberg, stated that he was “furious” due to having “put his signature to the destruction of the German name”, referring to his state’s involvement in the confederation, which had effectively doomed the empire.
From a legal standpoint, Franz II’s abdication was controversial. Contemporary legal commentators agreed that the abdication itself was perfectly legal but that the emperor did not have the authority to dissolve the empire. As such, several of the empire’s vassals refused to recognize that the empire had ended. As late as October 1806…
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact- No honor between dictators.
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Many people give great credit to the USSR for their pivotal in the allies defeat of the Nazi regime. They say if it hadn’t been for the Soviets, the war could have lasted a lot longer and could have gone Germany’s way.
However, it can be argued that because of the USSR the war lasted longer. The did aligned themselves with the Nazis a few weeks before the start of WW2. For the first year and a half or so they fought along with the Nazis, in Poland.
On August 23, Germany and the USSR signed a non aggression pact.
The German-Soviet Pact was an agreement signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It was negotiated by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Commonly called the German-Soviet Pact or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, it is also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact or the Hitler-Stalin…
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Proposals for Israeli political reform–again
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One thing I like about following Israeli politics is that there is no lack of willingness to propose institutional reforms to deal with (real or perceived) problems of governance. They are not always good ideas (see the term limit proposal proposed by a party in the outgoing coalition), but it is good that there is a willingness to debate ideas for political reform.
A news update from the TOI today mentions a couple that are in play during the current election campaign. The National Unity Party, led by Benny Gantz and Gideon Saar, is proposing to (1) require more than an absolute majority for the Knesset to dissolve1 itself, and (2) not make the failure to pass a budget a cause for automatic dissolution.
The second of these is an excellent idea, and I have thought for some time this should be changed. The problem with the current provision…
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How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: evolution, evolutionary biology
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