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Fun With Quotes-Guess Which Collectivist Said It »
Posted by: pc25 3 months ago in Humor
Think you know your history? Take this test and find out on which side of the gulag fence you'll be tomorrow.
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The Corrupt Origins of Central Banking in America »
Posted by: populist 1 week, 6 days ago in News
Central banking has been a corrupt, mercantilist scheme and an engine of corporate welfare from its very beginning in the late 18th century. The first ...
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The Depression Specter »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The specter of depression stalks America. You hear the word repeatedly. Are we in a depression? If not, are we headed for one? The answer ...
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Were Ancient Viruses a Key to Human Evolution? »
Posted by: cactushair 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
When the mapping of the human genome was completed in 2003, researchers discovered a shocking fact: our bodies are littered with the shards of retroviruse ...
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Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Robert Higgs »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
discusses the legacy of Woodrow Wilson’s Cheney, Edward Mandell House, House’s rise to power and links to big money men, Philip Dru Administrator ...
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Aug. 25, 1973: More Than One Way to Slice a CAT »
Posted by: monte-g 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Originally known as a CAT scan -- for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography -- the process uses a series of X-rays to ...
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Most Influential Cars from GM »
Posted by: pagey 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Business & Finance
General Motors celebrates it's 100th anniversary on September 16, and the road that led the company to that 100-year marker has been a curvy ...
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Porn claims outrage German Kafka scholars »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
The German-speaking world of Kafka scholars hit out yesterday over a British academic's claims that the writer had a penchant for hard porn.
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The Imperial United States of America: Its Constitution and the Truth of
Its History »Posted by: populist 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Remember, no Constitution, no illusory documents of history, no political appendage of the system can be expected to defend or regain freedom for individuals wishing ...
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Oct. 15, 1900: Boston Embraces the Sound of Music »
Posted by: monte-g 1 month ago in Science & Technology
1900: Boston's Symphony Hall, an acoustical marvel in its day and still regarded as one of the world's great concert halls, opens with ...
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Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History »
Posted by: populist 6 days, 3 hours ago in Politics
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a leading ideologist of the Old Right, a loose collection of individualist intellectuals, journalists, and a few politicians who ...
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Is History Siding With Obama?s Economic Plan? »
Posted by: cosmogenium 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
CLEARLY, there are major differences between the economic policies of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain . Mr. McCain wants more tax cuts for the rich ...
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The Devastation of Iraq's Past »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Al-Sistani proclaimed that digging for antiquities is illegal; that both Islamic and pre-Islamic artifacts are part of Iraqi heritage; and that people who have antiquities ...
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American History »
Posted by: tonks21 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Humor
Suzuki was the son of a Japanese businessman who lived in Marietta, Georgia. Today he would be entering the fourth grade and therefore he was ...
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PHOTOS: Best and Worst Historic Sites Rated »
Posted by: sleepingbeauty2 1 month ago in Arts & Entertainment
The medieval villages and monastery situated along the Danube River in Austria's Wachau Valley haven't changed much through the centuries.
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