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The Macedonian Standoff – The Five Nation Army Is Repelled I THE GREAT WAR...

Published on 11 May 2017 Italy, France, Serbia, Britain and Russia joined forces at the Macedonian Front and the “five nation army” wants to break through the lines held by Bulgaria with some German...

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QotD: Sneering at the “farmers” in fly-over country

If Star Wars was written by today’s establishment, Luke would have to be a girl who suffered oppression by the bigoted farm boys, then escaped to the Empire (which was, of course, politically correct...

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The Physics of World War 1 Planes feat. The Great War Channel

Published on 29 Apr 2017 Related posts: German Pistols of World War 1 feat. Othais from C&Rsenal I THE GREAT WAR Special German Rifles of World War 1 feat. Othais from C&Rsenal I THE GREAT WAR...

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University life – it’s even worse than you think it is

As we have learned over the last few years, university campuses are worse than active war zones for women at risk of sexual assault with one in five four three suffering an assault during their time...

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Psychedelic Drugs: The Future of Mental Health

Published on 12 May 2017 LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy are finally getting attention from serious medical researchers. And their findings are astounding. —- A recent study found that MDMA-assisted...

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QotD: Big business, crony capitalism and regulatory capture

Now, Pope Francis has the beginnings of a point about large “private corporations” (note the oxymoron), which in their wealth may grow (though only temporarily) to a size rivalling the smaller national...

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Space Myths Debunked – Earth Lab

Published on 4 May 2017 From astrology to the temperature in space, Dom counts down the top 5 space myths and explains why they are baloney. 1 http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Neutron+Star 2...

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Euthanised For The EU – that’ll reverse the Brexit vote for sure…

On Facebook, Brendan O’Neill responds to an article in the Independent, calling for elderly pro-Brexit voters to just die already: Ian McEwan says the death of ageing voters, “angry old men”, will help...

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Junkers Fighter Planes – Whiter Feather Movement – Swiss Invasion Plans I OUT...

Published on 13 May 2017 Chair of Wisdom Time! This week Indy talks about Junkers fighter planes, the plans for an invasion of Switzerland and he Whiter Feather Movement. Related posts: That Question...

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The earliest lesson in economics

Steve Kates posted this at Catallaxy Files, saying it was everything you need to know about public spending: Related posts: QotD: Hipster economics Apple may learn the lesson of “option value” with the...

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QotD: Local government

If, that is, you believe it’s a council’s job to be lecturing takeaways shops, cafes and the like what should and shouldn’t be on the menu. Which personally, I don’t. Surely, if you’re forking out...

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Geography and Economic Growth

Published on 9 Feb 2016 If you look at the African continent, perhaps the first word to come to mind is “enormous.” And that’s true. You could fit most of the United States, China, India, and a lot of...

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Chorley Park, Ontario’s lost viceregal mansion

Chris Bateman on the odd history of Ontario’s fourth official home of the Lieutenant Governor: Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell is one of four Canadian viceregal representatives to...

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Comparing Royal Marine field ration packs

A fascinating insight into the way the Royal Marines take care of the troops in the field, showing both enlisted mens’ and officers’ ration packs: Related posts: US Marine Corps facing 9% cut in troop...

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“The handgun industry uses the word ‘extreme’ like it’s on sale if bought by...

A post by Tamara Keel that may be of interest to my American friends, where getting legal permission to carry a handgun is still theoretically possible (unlike here in Soviet Canuckistan): Extreme...

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QotD: Politics as an auto-immune condition

From living with eczema, which is a chronic auto-immune disorder, I can tell you that it much resembles the way we stumbled through from the forties (perhaps earlier. But in the forties, Heinlein...

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11 Things to see in Athens

Published on 5 Mar 2017 On February i got a few days away to relax from everything. I left you with some automatic videos, so you wouldn’t be without new documentaries and i went on holiday to Athens,...

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The Virtual Lorenz machine

At The Register, Gareth Corfield discusses the new virtual coding device simulating the WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine: The National Museum of Computing has put an emulation of an “unbreakable”...

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Terry Teachout remembers Dragnet

I vaguely remember watching Dragnet on TV, but the version I watched is apparently just a pale imitation of the original series: If you’re fifty or older, you won’t need to be told the source of these...

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How service companies might respond to a mandated increase in the minimum wage

At Coyote Blog, Warren Meyer discusses how real world service companies that employ a lot of minimum wage workers are likely to respond when the minimum wage is raised: When I discuss this with folks,...

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