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November 5, 2012

Andrew Marr’s ‘History of the World’

The series has not finished yet, but I would just like to point out how I would summarize it thus far: aside the omissions…

November 4, 2012

I did very much enjoy this introduction to Japanese fortifications for the time period mentioned by Mr Turnbull. But as with nearly any Osprey…

November 3, 2012

“How many twenty-second century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We’ll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with…

November 3, 2012

I came upon the following event on my scouring of the news and blogs and whatnot. I was rather amused at the brilliance of…

October 25, 2012

This is an interesting essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and I would recommend people to read it. You can find an English version here, or…

October 24, 2012

As mentioned above (or is that considered below? =P ) in the ‘Faces of Rome’ post, I also saw a really underwhelming trailer earlier…

October 24, 2012

Despite this being a measly trailer for Rome 2 Total War (or as they like doing it these days, Total War: Rome II), I…

October 22, 2012

… let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not…

October 19, 2012

Thirty years of rain followed by thirty years of drought… That must be one of the worst ways for a civilization to go extinct….

October 15, 2012

Kūkai was born in 774 in Sanuki Province, which faced the central provinces with the easternmost part of the Seto Inland Sea in between….