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Central Bankers and History »
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 6 days ago in Politics
Ben Bernanke, the Depression expert, or "technocrat-prince," as DeLong hails him, says nothing about the Fed needing to pop financial bubbles or to give Treasury ...
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Photographer races clock to honor last few World War I vets - CNN.com »
Posted by: pagey 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
(CNN) -- Photographer David DeJonge plans to capture a vanishing bit of history Tuesday on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.
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U.S. Navy Confirms Lost WWII Sub Found Off Aleutians »
Posted by: monte-g 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
The U.S. Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion ...
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July 28, 1858: Press Down Firmly, You're In Our Files Now »
Posted by: monte-g 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
1858: A British colonial magistrate in India starts using fingerprints as a means of identifying people. It's the first-known, modern official use of the ...
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Columbus debunker sets sights on Leonardo da Vinci »
Posted by: capn_caveman 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in ...
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The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy »
Posted by: _kam0_ 3 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The Fed was presented to the public in pseudo-populist drag: It was supposedly the bane of the big banking interests. This was, in every particular ...
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August 30 in History »
Posted by: omerazam 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Death of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. She is said to have committed suicide by allowing a wasp to sting her breast.
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Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat? »
Posted by: _kam0_ 2 months ago in Science & Technology
Jon Erlandson shakes out what appears to be a miniature evergreen from a clear ziplock bag and holds it out for me to examine. As ...
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Hey U.S., welcome to the Third World! »
Posted by: _kam0_ 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
It's been a quick slide from economic superpower to economic basket case.
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Understand the Keating Five in two minutes »
Posted by: Wil 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
You may have heard the phrase "Keating Five" and understood that it had something to do with St. John McCain back before he attained sainthood ...
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The Internet Archivist: October 6 2004 No WMD in Iraq Concluded »
Posted by: Fedquip 1 month, 1 week ago in News
However I feel the most interesting portion of the October 6 page is the video I was able to embed into the "Historical Events" section ...
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Great Myths of the Great Depression »
Posted by: populist 1 month ago in Politics
Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government ...
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The Bataan Death March »
Posted by: ParvezAhmed 3 weeks, 2 days ago in News
The Bataan Death March occurred in the Philippines in 1942. 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were forcibly marched for 60 miles...18 ...
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Steven Pinker on the myth of violence | Video on TED.com »
Posted by: truthiness 2 days, 3 hours ago in News
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given ...
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Chicago Tribune: Obama for president »
Posted by: acmaurer 1 month ago in Politics
This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune. This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
