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Gradeshnitsa tablets

Sunday, January 25, 2009

This is one of those weird things I like: nationalism and it’s influence on historical imagination. Specifically how in the Balkans it’s impossible to talk about linguistics without talking about nationalism. Romanians claim their language has an ancient substrate from Dacian, Greeks get all pissy about the Macedonians calling themselves Macedonians, and the Macedonians get [...]

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From the “Man, are you fucking kidding me!?” file.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Climate change has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to melt increasingly fast in recent years, threatening traditional ways of life but making drilling for oil more feasible.
[From Greenland votes to step closer to independence | International | Reuters]

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Back in the Thirties, The New York Times Only Hired the Very Dedicated

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed by accident, and cooked and ate it.
[From Cannibalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

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