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Showing posts with label 1000. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1000. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Yiyang Zhuge: Translating Hannah Arendt Across Worlds

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  Yiyang Zhuge translator of Hannah Arendt and Plutarch At a recent conversation hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center in New York City, Roger ...
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Monday, September 15, 2025

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ’s August 1914 is the first volume of his The Red Wheel cycle of novels an epic attempt to explain how Russia slid ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Civil War, the movie: In the first fight, I knew who was going to die

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       The map of the divided America in"Civil War" The new movie Civil War  is a love letter to journalism, maybe a little too mu...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Persia Renamed Iran in 1935 By a Nazi-Admiring Shah

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Reza Shah Pahlavi, Nazi devotee In 1935, Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty felt the winds of history blowing across the world. He wa...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Tank Museum Designed as a Warning: Panzer Museum East, Denmark

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Most military museums, particularly tank museums, display the best and most lethal weapons of their country. Part of the intent of these mus...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Bungee Cord Repair Lasts 2,400 Miles

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2021 Nissan Altima plus six bungee cords Last Friday my son Nigel and I left Lancaster at 8:30 p.m. to drive to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He w...
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Saturday, March 14, 2020

"Go Take a Flying Fuck at a Rolling Doughnut!" -- Kurt Vonnegut

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    In a touching scene in the movie “Ford v Ferrari” Carroll Shelby, a Texan, tells a boy who lost his father in a racing accident, “Y...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Paris Training Race and West Along the Seine

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Today I am back in Paris and riding longer distances getting ready for Israel. I rode 42 miles from the south side of Paris to the daily...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Knee Works Well Enough to Walk: Boarding in an Hour

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Last night, I thought the sudden, painful swelling of my titanium knee could be the end of my trip.  I am still not sure how much I will ...
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Friday, September 6, 2019

Chinook Landing on a Roof in Afghanistan Honored in Original Art

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On 10 November 2003 the crew of Chinook helicopter  Yankee 2-6 made this landing on a cliff in Afghanistan. Artist Larry Selman i...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Price of Leadership: An excerpt from "Master and Commander"

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In Patrick O’Brian’s book“Master and Commander” the sixth chapter begins with the ship’s doctor on land thinking about how men age.   ...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Wisdom Tooth Out With A Hammer and Chisel, Hill AFB, 1973

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Dental Hammer and Chisel Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah, was my first duty station after tech school at Lowry AFB.  In the Spring of...
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Saturday, April 6, 2019

"Smoking's Not Going to Kill Us, They Are:" Tobacco on the Cold War Border

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I started watching "Band of Brothers" again, the HBO series about American paratroopers in World War II. At the beginning...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

The Forgotten Soldier: "Surely the war must end soon."

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The Forgotten Soldier, a memoir of World War II In the middle of Guy Sajer's story of war on the Eastern Front in World War II, he...