- See Also
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Gwern
- “Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
- “Language-Conditioned Absolute Unit NNs”, Gwern 2022
- “The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend”, Gwern 2011
- “The Math of Hunting Lions”, Gwern 2021
- “Newton’s System of the World and Comets”, Gwern 2016
- “Open Questions”, Gwern 2018
- “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, Gwern 2018
- “One Man’s Modus Ponens”, Gwern 2012
- “Progress In Beauty”, Gwern 2016
- “Fashion Cycles”, Gwern 2021
- “The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups”, Gwern 2021
- “Review Of The Cultural Revolution, Dikötter 2016”, Gwern 2019
- “McNamara’s Folly: The Denial of Individual Differences”, Gwern 2018
- “ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
- “Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
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Links
- “We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years”, Guinnane 2023
- “American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers”, Dell et al 2023
- “The Little-Known Shipwreck That Inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Stoker Was Moved by Grim Details from the World around Him While Penning His Horror Masterpiece. The Real Fate of a Ship Called the Dmitry Played an Outsized Role in His Imaginings”, Sartore 2023
- “Have We Lost Sleep? A Reconsideration of Segmented Sleep in Early Modern England”, Boyuce 2023
- “Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War”, White 2023
- “Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times”, Cosano et al 2023
- “Women’s Experiences of Infertility After the Holocaust”, Kleinplatz & Weindling 2022
- “Following the Herds? A New Distribution of Hunting Kites in Southwest Asia”, Fradley et al 2022
- “Why Are Roman-Period Dice Asymmetrical? An Experimental and Quantitative Approach”, Eerkens & Voogt 2022
- “Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture”, Kestemont et al 2022
- “Ian Fleming’s Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction during the Early Cold War”, Kovacevic 2022
- “The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?”, Mayshar et al 2022
- “Silver Coins, Wooden Tallies and Parchment Rolls in Henry III’s Exchequer”, Cassidy 2021
- “What Doesn’t Kill Her, Will Make Her Depressed”, Li & Sunder 2021
- “In Defense of King George: The Author of a New Biography [The Last King of America] Shines a Humane Light on the Monarch Despised by the Colonists”, Roberts 2021
- “What Was the Point of Equality?”, Bejan 2021
- “For Centuries, England’s Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone: No Dentures? No Problem!”, Soth 2021
- “How a Fake Kepler Portrait Became Iconic”, Shore & Pavlík 2021
- “Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors”, Levy & Mulligan 2021
- “Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling”, Lakeman 2021
- “Behavioral Scientists and Laypeople Misestimate Societal Effects of COVID-19”, Hutcherson et al 2021
- “Why Are There Seven Sisters?”, Norris & Norris 2021b
- “Evaluating Narratives of Ecocide With the Stratigraphic Record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA”, Rankin et al 2021
- “Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review)”, Stansky 2021
- “Daicon III and IV Opening Animations”, Gainax 2020
- “Hot under the Collar: A Latent Measure of Interstate Hostility”, Terechshenko 2020
- “Psychology As a Historical Science”, Muthukrishna et al 2020b
- “Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, Rehman 2020
- “Modeling the Human Trajectory”, Roodman 2020
- “The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition”, Hassner 2020
- “Empirical ‘Integrated Disease Management’ in Ferrara during the Italian Plague (1629–1631)”, Vicentini et al 2020
- “Radical Solutions: French Mathematician Évariste Galois Lived a Full Life. When He Wasn’t Trying to Overthrow the Government, He Was Reinventing Algebra”, Brook & Macfarlane 2020
- “Teddy Roosevelt on a Moose: Fake News, or Fake Fake News? An Old Photo of a U.S. President on Mooseback Is Often Used to Illustrate the Deep Roots of Media Deception. The Real Story May Not Back That Up.”, Eveleth 2020
- “Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, Alexander 2020
- “Statistical Sightings of Better Angels: Analysing the Distribution of Battle-Deaths in Interstate Conflict over Time”, Cunen et al 2020
- “‘The Intelligence Coup of the Century’: For Decades, the CIA Read the Encrypted Communications of Allies and Adversaries”, Miller 2020
- “Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him”, Menard 2020
- “‘Shattered’: Inside the Secret Battle to save America’s Undercover Spies in the Digital Age”, McLaughlin & Dorfman 2019
- “Statistical Reliability Analysis for a Most Dangerous Occupation: Roman Emperor”, Saleh 2019
- “Everything You Need to Know About Napoleon Bonaparte”, Lakeman 2019
- “Restoring Ancient Text Using Deep Learning (Pythia): a Case Study on Greek Epigraphy”, Assael et al 2019
- “The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
- “The Landshuter Hochzeit (1475)”
- “Dead Reckoning: The 18th Century Misadventures of HMS Wager and Her Reluctant Crew”, Bellows 2019
- “Did Breast-Feeding Play A Role In the Evolution of Pets? Like the Dolphin Who Adopted a Baby Whale, Humans Have Often Breast-Fed Pets”, Herzog 2019
- “The Architectural Bias in Current Biblical Archaeology”, Ben-Yosef 2019
- “Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”, Greer 2019
- “Signals of Strength: Capability Demonstrations and Perceptions of Military Power”, Montgomery 2019
- “Predicting History”, Risi et al 2019
- “The Most Modern of Modern Sports: The Secret Runaway Success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s Racing Cheetahs”, Noonan 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, Greer 2019
- “Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, Greer 2019
- “Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China’s Imperial Examination System”, Bai 2019b
- “Sons and Lovers: Political Stability in China and Europe Before the Great Divergence”, Wang 2018b
- “Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847–1863”, Gold 2018
- “Are Liberal Governments More Cooperative? Voting Trends at the UN in Five Anglophone Democracies”, Hanania 2018
- “The Silurian Hypothesis: Would It Be Possible to Detect an Industrial Civilization in the Geological Record?”, Schmidt & Frank 2018
- “The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes”, Sürmelihindi 2018
- “Bronze Age Iron: Meteoritic or Not? A Chemical Strategy”, Jambon 2017
- “How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America: The Toll of History’s Worst Epidemic Surpasses All the Military Deaths in World War I and World War II Combined. And It May Have Begun in the United States”, Barry 2017
- “Russia’s House of Shadows: My Apartment Building Was Made to House the First Generation of Soviet Élite. Instead, It Was Where the Revolution Went to Die”, Yaffa 2017
- “Humanist Lives of Classical Philosophers and the Idea of Renaissance Secularization: Virtue, Rhetoric, and the Orthodox Sources of Unbelief”
- “Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?”, Breen 2017
- “As Russian Film Row Escalates, ‘Experts’ Malign Looks Of Last Tsar’s Lover”, Schreck 2017
- “Cleaning up After WWII”, jwh1975 2017
- “Men of Honor, Men of Interest”, Greer 2016
- “Pāḷi Numbers (Saṅkhyā)”, Ānandajoti 2016
- “History Is Written by the Losers”, Greer 2016
- “Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap”, Greer 2016
- “Managing Dutch Advices: Abraham Casteleyn and the English Government, 1660–1681”, Peacey 2016
- “Announcing: The Thucydides Roundtable”, Greer 2016
- “The Fascinating and Ego-Killing Existence of Human Wormholes”, Holiday 2016
- “Reproductive Trade-Offs in Extant Hunter-Gatherers Suggest Adaptive Mechanism for the Neolithic Expansion”, Page et al 2016
- “America Will Always Fail At Regional Expertise”, Greer 2016
- “‘Everything Has a Price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy”, Sabin 2015
- “Pre-Modern Battlefields Were Absolutely Terrifying”, Greer 2015
- “Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History”, Greer 2015
- “The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961”, Meng et al 2015
- “Shakespeare in American Politics”, Greer 2015
- “When Modern War Met an Antique Art”, Greer 2015
- “Elephas Anthropogenus”, Westphal 2015
- “The Radical Sun Tzu”, Greer 2015
- “Proving Communal Warfare among Hunter‐gatherers: The Quasi‐rousseauan Error”
- “ISIS, the Mongols, and ‘The Return of Ancient Challenges’”, Greer 2014
- “Charles I’s Noble Academy”, Cust 2014
- “What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 2”, Greer 2014
- “What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 1”, Greer 2014
- “Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, And Myth In Maoist China”, Wu 2014
- “America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction”, Fukuyama 2014
- “Inside the Soviet Union’s Secret Pornography Collection: Off Limits to the Public but Enjoyed by Soviet-Era Leaders, the Lenin Library Collection Grew out of Erotica Confiscated from Aristocrats After the Revolution”, Neumeyer 2014
- “Meditations on Maoism—Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”, Greer 2014
- “Culture Clash in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and African Students’ Urbanity in the Soviet Union, 1960–1965”, Guillory 2014
- “Smallpox on the Steppe”, Greer 2014
- “The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story”, Alexander 2013
- “Radiance: A Novel”, Scholz et al 2013
- “The Bow and Arrow in Northern North America”, Maschner & Mason 2013
- “St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
- “Infant and Child Death in the Human Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation”, Volk & Atkinson 2013
- “Greek Combat Sports and Their Transmission to Central and East Asia”, Christopoulos 2013
- “Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime”, Greer 2013
- “The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules”, Rossi 2012
- “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945”, Fox & Guglielmo 2012
- “The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, Woodberry 2012
- “Jewish Problems”, Khovanova & Radul 2011
- “The Life-Spans of Empires”, Arbesman 2011
- “The Eternity of the World and Renaissance Historical Thought”, Connell 2011
- “The Emirate of Cordoba (756-929 AD) and the Introduction of the Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes Ichneumon) in Iberia: the Remains from Muge, Portugal”, Detry et al 2011
- “NA0124_StoningWeb”
- “The Soviet Problem With Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part II: Saul Bron”, Melnikova-Raich 2011
- “Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism As Politics, Politics As Exorcism”, Laycock 2011
- “Scott and Scurvy: How the Cure for Scurvy Was Lost”, Ceglowski 2010
- “NO_aarsberet2010_materie:NO_aarsberet2010_materie”, Nuno 2010
- “The Soviet Problem With Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn”, Melnikova-Raich 2010
- “Blind Veteran Tells Tales from War and Life Since: An Ex-Serviceman Blinded in Battle Has Spoken Exclusively to Reporter Alexandra Barham about the Horrors of War and the Trials and Tribulations of Life That Followed without Sight”, Barham & Tetley 2009
- “The Sacred Groves of Ancient Greece”, Bowe 2009
- “Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary”, Jullien 2009
- “The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813”, Mark & Rigau-Pérez 2009
- “Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications”, Keeley et al 2007
- “The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550-1850”, Razzell & Spence 2007
- “Gibbon Was Right: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Economy”, Jongman 2007
- “How Khrushchev Leaked His Secret Speech to the World”, Rettie 2006
- “Oral History of Butler Lampson § WWW”, Lampson & Kay 2006 (page 36)
- “F✱✱✱ You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb”, Cohen & Platt 2006
- “The Dubious Quick Kill, Part 1⁄2: Sword Wounds and the Circulatory System”, Lurz 2006
- “The Historical Mind and Military Strategy”, Cohen 2005
- “Human Mobility in Roman Italy, II: The Slave Population”, Scheidel 2005
- “Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt”, Strong 2005
- “Syphilis in Renaissance Europe: Rapid Evolution of an Introduced Sexually Transmitted Disease?”, Knell 2004
- “Mark Lombardi: Global Networks”, Hobbs 2003
- “Comment on ‘Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the Existence of Hell”, Pesic 2002
- “Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws”, Peterson 2002
- “Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s”, Ioffe 2002
- “The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail”, Allen 2002
- “Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research”, Wansink 2002
- “Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System”, Samuels 2001
- “The Consequences of Political Dictatorship for Russian Science”, Soyfer 2001
- “Joachim of Fiore and Apocalyptic Immanence”, Ziolo 2001
- “Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the Search for Cinnamon”, Dalby 2001
- “From Third World to First: The Singapore Story—1965–2000”, Yew 2000
- “Parallel-Cousin (FBD) Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization”, Korotayev 2000
- “Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming”, Caffrey 2000
- “Biological Warfare in 18th-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst”, Fenn 2000
- “Hispanisms in Southwest Indian Languages”, Bright 2000
- “Stalin‘s Genocide against the 'Repressed Peoples’”, Pohl 2000
- “The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-List and the Identity of Nitocris”, 5645 2000
- “The Face of Roman Battle”, Sabin 2000
- “War Dogs: A History of Loyalty and Heroism”, Lemish 1999
- “The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a Teenager Attempts to Build a Breeder Reactor”, Silverstein 1998
- “Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education”, Shepherd & Shepherd 1998
- “Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens”, Hubbard 1998
- “Peter Bartl's Albanien. Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Gegenwart (Book Review)”, Hetzer 1996
- “The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian”, Rugoff 1996
- “The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community”, Hamilton 1996
- “Medieval Monogamy”, Betzig 1995
- “Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?”, Ewald 1995
- “Caesar Lives”, Pop 1995
- “Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch”, Wolfe 1995
- “Islam As a Special World-System”, Voll 1994
- “Inhaling the Spore: Field Trip to a Museum of Natural (un)history”, Weschler 1994
- “Bearing the Burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–1938”, Wilton 1994
- “Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions”, Whaples 1994
- “The Theory of Special Operations”, McRaven 1993
- “Libraries in Hell: Cultural Activities in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps 1930s–1950s”, Mäkinen 1993
- “Methodological Limits and the Mirage of Roman Strategy”, Wheeler 1993
- “War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis”, Mesquita et al 1992
- “THE CULT OF THE DEAD IN JUDAH: INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL REMAINS”
- “The 1936–1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers”, McCutcheon 1991
- “Terminal Delinquents: Once, They Stole Hubcaps And Shot Out Street-Lights. Now They’re Stealing Your Social Security Number And Shooting Out Your Credit Rating. A Layman’s Guide To Computer High Jinks”, Hitt & Tough 1990
- “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
- “Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer”, Bagnold 1990
- “The Reality of Cannae”, Samuels 1990
- “‘Tell The World’ What Happened in China and Why”, Binyan et al 1989
- “The Real War 1939–1945”, Fussell 1989
- “Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing”, Luce 1989
- “A Brief History of Magnetospheric Physics Before the Spaceflight Era”, Stern 1989
- “The Windigo in the Material World”, Brightman 1988
- “Those Who Said ‘No!’: Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II”, Kitterman 1988
- “The Little Can That Could”, Daniel 1987
- “Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception”, Dietz 1986
- “To Be Taken With a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage”, Ridley 1986
- “Human Life in Russia”, Ammende 1984
- “The Bourbon Restoration: One Century of French Historiography”, Sauvigny 1981
- “Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens”
- “America's Other Inauguration”, Stathis & Moe 1980
- “The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World”
- “Julius Caesar’s Last Words: A Reinterpretation”, Russell 1980
- “Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975): A Biographical Memoir”, Alvarez 1980
- “King Frederick William II And The Decline Of The Prussian Army, 1786-1797”, Stine 1980
- “Pierfrancesco De' Medici, 1430-1476: A Radical Alternative to Elder Medicean Supremacy?”
- “Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error: Ch2, the domus”, Ladurie 1978
- “The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, Heard 1977 (page 6)
- “Paradoxical Proverbs and Satire in Sumerian Literature”, Alster 1975
- “Society and the Supernatural: A Medieval Change”
- “The Gospels and Jesus: Some Doubts about Method”, Gager 1974
- “Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism: A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C”, Price 1974
- “Theory and Practice of Ability Testing in Ancient Greece”, Jr 1974
- “The Cult of Dead Kin in Assyria and Babylonia”
- “Bridal Pregnancy in Earlier Rural England Further Examined”, Hair 1970
- “Pieces of the Action: The Personal Record of Sixty Event-Filled Years by the Distinguished Scientist Who Took an Active and Decisive Part in Shaping Them”, Bush et al 1970
- “Political Prisoner: A Personal Account”, Ignotus 1964
- “History of Zen Buddhism (363p)”, Dumoulin & Heinrich 1963
- “Toward a Theory of Revolution”, Davie 1962
- “‘Silk? Satin? Kersey? Rags?’ The Choristers' Theater under Elizabeth and James”, Bradbrook 1961
- “Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi”
- “The Lesson of Iraq: `Let Us Not Forget That Our Essential Policy Interests Are Identical With Those of the Arabs`”, Polk 1958
- “Social Change in the South Pacific: Rarotonga and Aitutaki”, Beaglehole 1957
- “Hegel and the 7 Planets”
- “The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols 1951
- “Review of Le Comte Ferdinand De Bertier (1782–1864) Et L'Enigme De La Congregation”, Cobban 1949
- “Secrets by the Thousands”, Walker 1946
- “Auguste and His Claque”, Crosten 1946
- “Obituary: Barbara Stoddard Burks”, Brehme 1943
- “Barbara Stoddard Burks: 1902–1943”, Murphy & Cook 1943
- “Woman Dies In Plunge: Body of Ex-Research Worker Lands Under Hudson Bridge”
- “The Late Dr. Barbara Burks; Death of the Brilliant Psychologist Regretted by Scientists”, Woodworth 1943
- “Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song”, Perry 1933
- “Hadrian's Wall: 1921–1930”, Collingwood 1931
- “Hadrian's Wall: A History of the Problem”, Collingwood 1921
- “The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Nevill & Nevill 1920
- “Dog A Fake Hero: Pushes Children Into the Seine to Rescue Them and Win Beefsteaks”, Times 1908
- “The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile”, Waldseemüller et al 1907
- “The Life of Medieval Students As Illustrated by Their Letters”, Haskins 1898
- “The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: Including Abstracts of His More Important Scientific Papers, and a Critical Inquiry Into the Claims of All the Alleged Discoverers of the Composition of Water”, Wilson 1851
- “Confusion of Confusions”, Vega & Kellenbenz 1688
- “‘Ten Thousand Melodies Cannot Express Our Boundless Hot Love for You’: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China”
- “Francisco Franco, Robust Action, and the Power of Non-Commitment”
- “The Good Tsar Bias”
- “The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China's Working Class”
- “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434”
- “Sex, Spies, and the National Anthem: The BSO Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of: One Hundred Years Ago, One of the World’s Top Conductors Was Ensnared in a Scandal Involving Patriotism and Sex. It Almost Toppled Boston’s Famed Orchestra.”
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“Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
“Language-Conditioned Absolute Unit NNs”, Gwern 2022
“The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend”, Gwern 2011
“The Math of Hunting Lions”, Gwern 2021
“Newton’s System of the World and Comets”, Gwern 2016
“Open Questions”, Gwern 2018
“My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, Gwern 2018
“One Man’s Modus Ponens”, Gwern 2012
“Progress In Beauty”, Gwern 2016
“Fashion Cycles”, Gwern 2021
“The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups”, Gwern 2021
“Review Of The Cultural Revolution, Dikötter 2016”, Gwern 2019
“McNamara’s Folly: The Denial of Individual Differences”, Gwern 2018
“ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
“Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
Links
“We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years”, Guinnane 2023
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years
“American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers”, Dell et al 2023
American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
“The Little-Known Shipwreck That Inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Stoker Was Moved by Grim Details from the World around Him While Penning His Horror Masterpiece. The Real Fate of a Ship Called the Dmitry Played an Outsized Role in His Imaginings”, Sartore 2023
“Have We Lost Sleep? A Reconsideration of Segmented Sleep in Early Modern England”, Boyuce 2023
Have we lost sleep? A reconsideration of segmented sleep in early modern England
“Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War”, White 2023
Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War
“Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times”, Cosano et al 2023
“Women’s Experiences of Infertility After the Holocaust”, Kleinplatz & Weindling 2022
“Following the Herds? A New Distribution of Hunting Kites in Southwest Asia”, Fradley et al 2022
Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia
“Why Are Roman-Period Dice Asymmetrical? An Experimental and Quantitative Approach”, Eerkens & Voogt 2022
Why are Roman-period dice asymmetrical? An experimental and quantitative approach
“Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture”, Kestemont et al 2022
Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture
“Ian Fleming’s Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction during the Early Cold War”, Kovacevic 2022
Ian Fleming’s Soviet rival: Roman Kim and Soviet spy fiction during the early Cold War
“The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?”, Mayshar et al 2022
The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?
“Silver Coins, Wooden Tallies and Parchment Rolls in Henry III’s Exchequer”, Cassidy 2021
Silver coins, wooden tallies and parchment rolls in Henry III’s Exchequer
“What Doesn’t Kill Her, Will Make Her Depressed”, Li & Sunder 2021
“In Defense of King George: The Author of a New Biography [The Last King of America] Shines a Humane Light on the Monarch Despised by the Colonists”, Roberts 2021
“What Was the Point of Equality?”, Bejan 2021
“For Centuries, England’s Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone: No Dentures? No Problem!”, Soth 2021
For Centuries, England’s Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone: No dentures? No problem!
“How a Fake Kepler Portrait Became Iconic”, Shore & Pavlík 2021
“Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors”, Levy & Mulligan 2021
Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors
“Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling”, Lakeman 2021
“Behavioral Scientists and Laypeople Misestimate Societal Effects of COVID-19”, Hutcherson et al 2021
Behavioral scientists and laypeople misestimate societal effects of COVID-19
“Why Are There Seven Sisters?”, Norris & Norris 2021b
“Evaluating Narratives of Ecocide With the Stratigraphic Record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA”, Rankin et al 2021
“Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review)”, Stansky 2021
Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review):
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“Daicon III and IV Opening Animations”, Gainax 2020
“Hot under the Collar: A Latent Measure of Interstate Hostility”, Terechshenko 2020
Hot under the collar: A latent measure of interstate hostility
“Psychology As a Historical Science”, Muthukrishna et al 2020b
“Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, Rehman 2020
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism
“Modeling the Human Trajectory”, Roodman 2020
“The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition”, Hassner 2020
“Empirical ‘Integrated Disease Management’ in Ferrara during the Italian Plague (1629–1631)”, Vicentini et al 2020
Empirical ‘integrated disease management’ in Ferrara during the Italian plague (1629–1631)
“Radical Solutions: French Mathematician Évariste Galois Lived a Full Life. When He Wasn’t Trying to Overthrow the Government, He Was Reinventing Algebra”, Brook & Macfarlane 2020
“Teddy Roosevelt on a Moose: Fake News, or Fake Fake News? An Old Photo of a U.S. President on Mooseback Is Often Used to Illustrate the Deep Roots of Media Deception. The Real Story May Not Back That Up.”, Eveleth 2020
“Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, Alexander 2020
Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]
“Statistical Sightings of Better Angels: Analysing the Distribution of Battle-Deaths in Interstate Conflict over Time”, Cunen et al 2020
“‘The Intelligence Coup of the Century’: For Decades, the CIA Read the Encrypted Communications of Allies and Adversaries”, Miller 2020
“Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him”, Menard 2020
Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him
“‘Shattered’: Inside the Secret Battle to save America’s Undercover Spies in the Digital Age”, McLaughlin & Dorfman 2019
‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
“Statistical Reliability Analysis for a Most Dangerous Occupation: Roman Emperor”, Saleh 2019
Statistical reliability analysis for a most dangerous occupation: Roman emperor
“Everything You Need to Know About Napoleon Bonaparte”, Lakeman 2019
“Restoring Ancient Text Using Deep Learning (Pythia): a Case Study on Greek Epigraphy”, Assael et al 2019
Restoring ancient text using deep learning (Pythia): a case study on Greek epigraphy
“The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
“The Landshuter Hochzeit (1475)”
“Dead Reckoning: The 18th Century Misadventures of HMS Wager and Her Reluctant Crew”, Bellows 2019
Dead Reckoning: The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew
“Did Breast-Feeding Play A Role In the Evolution of Pets? Like the Dolphin Who Adopted a Baby Whale, Humans Have Often Breast-Fed Pets”, Herzog 2019
“The Architectural Bias in Current Biblical Archaeology”, Ben-Yosef 2019
“Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”, Greer 2019
Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
“Signals of Strength: Capability Demonstrations and Perceptions of Military Power”, Montgomery 2019
Signals of strength: Capability demonstrations and perceptions of military power
“Predicting History”, Risi et al 2019
“The Most Modern of Modern Sports: The Secret Runaway Success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s Racing Cheetahs”, Noonan 2019
“Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, Greer 2019
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
“Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
“Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, Greer 2019
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit
“Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China’s Imperial Examination System”, Bai 2019b
Farewell to Confucianism: The modernizing effect of dismantling China’s imperial examination system
“Sons and Lovers: Political Stability in China and Europe Before the Great Divergence”, Wang 2018b
Sons and Lovers: Political Stability in China and Europe Before the Great Divergence
“Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847–1863”, Gold 2018
Ancient Egypt and the geological antiquity of man, 1847–1863
“Are Liberal Governments More Cooperative? Voting Trends at the UN in Five Anglophone Democracies”, Hanania 2018
Are Liberal Governments More Cooperative? Voting Trends at the UN in Five Anglophone Democracies
“The Silurian Hypothesis: Would It Be Possible to Detect an Industrial Civilization in the Geological Record?”, Schmidt & Frank 2018
“The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes”, Sürmelihindi 2018
“Bronze Age Iron: Meteoritic or Not? A Chemical Strategy”, Jambon 2017
“How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America: The Toll of History’s Worst Epidemic Surpasses All the Military Deaths in World War I and World War II Combined. And It May Have Begun in the United States”, Barry 2017
“Russia’s House of Shadows: My Apartment Building Was Made to House the First Generation of Soviet Élite. Instead, It Was Where the Revolution Went to Die”, Yaffa 2017
“Humanist Lives of Classical Philosophers and the Idea of Renaissance Secularization: Virtue, Rhetoric, and the Orthodox Sources of Unbelief”
“Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?”, Breen 2017
Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk?
“As Russian Film Row Escalates, ‘Experts’ Malign Looks Of Last Tsar’s Lover”, Schreck 2017
As Russian Film Row Escalates, ‘Experts’ Malign Looks Of Last Tsar’s Lover
“Cleaning up After WWII”, jwh1975 2017
“Men of Honor, Men of Interest”, Greer 2016
“Pāḷi Numbers (Saṅkhyā)”, Ānandajoti 2016
“History Is Written by the Losers”, Greer 2016
“Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap”, Greer 2016
“Managing Dutch Advices: Abraham Casteleyn and the English Government, 1660–1681”, Peacey 2016
Managing Dutch Advices: Abraham Casteleyn and the English Government, 1660–1681
“Announcing: The Thucydides Roundtable”, Greer 2016
“The Fascinating and Ego-Killing Existence of Human Wormholes”, Holiday 2016
The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes
“Reproductive Trade-Offs in Extant Hunter-Gatherers Suggest Adaptive Mechanism for the Neolithic Expansion”, Page et al 2016
“America Will Always Fail At Regional Expertise”, Greer 2016
“‘Everything Has a Price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy”, Sabin 2015
‘Everything has a price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy
“Pre-Modern Battlefields Were Absolutely Terrifying”, Greer 2015
“Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History”, Greer 2015
Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History
“The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961”, Meng et al 2015
“Shakespeare in American Politics”, Greer 2015
“When Modern War Met an Antique Art”, Greer 2015
“Elephas Anthropogenus”, Westphal 2015
“The Radical Sun Tzu”, Greer 2015
“Proving Communal Warfare among Hunter‐gatherers: The Quasi‐rousseauan Error”
Proving communal warfare among hunter‐gatherers: The quasi‐rousseauan error:
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“ISIS, the Mongols, and ‘The Return of Ancient Challenges’”, Greer 2014
“Charles I’s Noble Academy”, Cust 2014
“What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 2”, Greer 2014
“What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 1”, Greer 2014
“Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, And Myth In Maoist China”, Wu 2014
Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, And Myth In Maoist China
“America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction”, Fukuyama 2014
“Inside the Soviet Union’s Secret Pornography Collection: Off Limits to the Public but Enjoyed by Soviet-Era Leaders, the Lenin Library Collection Grew out of Erotica Confiscated from Aristocrats After the Revolution”, Neumeyer 2014
“Meditations on Maoism—Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”, Greer 2014
“Culture Clash in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and African Students’ Urbanity in the Soviet Union, 1960–1965”, Guillory 2014
“Smallpox on the Steppe”, Greer 2014
“The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story”, Alexander 2013
“Radiance: A Novel”, Scholz et al 2013
“The Bow and Arrow in Northern North America”, Maschner & Mason 2013
“St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
“Infant and Child Death in the Human Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation”, Volk & Atkinson 2013
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation
“Greek Combat Sports and Their Transmission to Central and East Asia”, Christopoulos 2013
Greek Combat Sports and Their Transmission to Central and East Asia
“Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime”, Greer 2013
Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime
“The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules”, Rossi 2012
“Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945”, Fox & Guglielmo 2012
Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945
“The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, Woodberry 2012
“Jewish Problems”, Khovanova & Radul 2011
“The Life-Spans of Empires”, Arbesman 2011
“The Eternity of the World and Renaissance Historical Thought”, Connell 2011
The Eternity of the World and Renaissance Historical Thought
“The Emirate of Cordoba (756-929 AD) and the Introduction of the Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes Ichneumon) in Iberia: the Remains from Muge, Portugal”, Detry et al 2011
“NA0124_StoningWeb”
“The Soviet Problem With Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part II: Saul Bron”, Melnikova-Raich 2011
“Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism As Politics, Politics As Exorcism”, Laycock 2011
Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism
“Scott and Scurvy: How the Cure for Scurvy Was Lost”, Ceglowski 2010
“NO_aarsberet2010_materie:NO_aarsberet2010_materie”, Nuno 2010
“The Soviet Problem With Two ‘Unknowns’: How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn”, Melnikova-Raich 2010
“Blind Veteran Tells Tales from War and Life Since: An Ex-Serviceman Blinded in Battle Has Spoken Exclusively to Reporter Alexandra Barham about the Horrors of War and the Trials and Tribulations of Life That Followed without Sight”, Barham & Tetley 2009
“The Sacred Groves of Ancient Greece”, Bowe 2009
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“Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary”, Jullien 2009
“The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813”, Mark & Rigau-Pérez 2009
The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813
“Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications”, Keeley et al 2007
Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications
“The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550-1850”, Razzell & Spence 2007
The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550-1850
“Gibbon Was Right: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Economy”, Jongman 2007
“How Khrushchev Leaked His Secret Speech to the World”, Rettie 2006
How Khrushchev Leaked His Secret Speech to the World:
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“Oral History of Butler Lampson § WWW”, Lampson & Kay 2006 (page 36)
“F✱✱✱ You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb”, Cohen & Platt 2006
F✱✱✱ You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb
“The Dubious Quick Kill, Part 1⁄2: Sword Wounds and the Circulatory System”, Lurz 2006
The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1⁄2: Sword wounds and the circulatory system
“The Historical Mind and Military Strategy”, Cohen 2005
“Human Mobility in Roman Italy, II: The Slave Population”, Scheidel 2005
Human Mobility in Roman Italy, II: The Slave Population:
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“Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt”, Strong 2005
“Syphilis in Renaissance Europe: Rapid Evolution of an Introduced Sexually Transmitted Disease?”, Knell 2004
Syphilis in renaissance Europe: rapid evolution of an introduced sexually transmitted disease?
“Mark Lombardi: Global Networks”, Hobbs 2003
“Comment on ‘Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (2002)]–Galileo and the Existence of Hell”, Pesic 2002
“Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws”, Peterson 2002
“Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s”, Ioffe 2002
Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s
“The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail”, Allen 2002
The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail
“Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research”, Wansink 2002
Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research
“Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System”, Samuels 2001
“The Consequences of Political Dictatorship for Russian Science”, Soyfer 2001
The consequences of political dictatorship for Russian science
“Joachim of Fiore and Apocalyptic Immanence”, Ziolo 2001
“Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the Search for Cinnamon”, Dalby 2001
Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the Search for Cinnamon:
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“From Third World to First: The Singapore Story—1965–2000”, Yew 2000
“Parallel-Cousin (FBD) Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization”, Korotayev 2000
Parallel-Cousin (FBD) Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization
“Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming”, Caffrey 2000
“Biological Warfare in 18th-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst”, Fenn 2000
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“Hispanisms in Southwest Indian Languages”, Bright 2000
Hispanisms in Southwest Indian Languages:
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“Stalin‘s Genocide against the 'Repressed Peoples’”, Pohl 2000
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“The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-List and the Identity of Nitocris”, 5645 2000
The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris:
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“War Dogs: A History of Loyalty and Heroism”, Lemish 1999
“The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a Teenager Attempts to Build a Breeder Reactor”, Silverstein 1998
The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
“Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education”, Shepherd & Shepherd 1998
“Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens”, Hubbard 1998
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“Peter Bartl's Albanien. Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Gegenwart (Book Review)”, Hetzer 1996
Peter Bartl's Albanien. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Book Review):
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“The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian”, Rugoff 1996
The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian:
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“The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community”, Hamilton 1996
The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
“Medieval Monogamy”, Betzig 1995
“Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?”, Ewald 1995
Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was it Like to Try a Rat?:
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“Islam As a Special World-System”, Voll 1994
Islam as a Special World-System:
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“Inhaling the Spore: Field Trip to a Museum of Natural (un)history”, Weschler 1994
Inhaling the spore: Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history
“Bearing the Burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–1938”, Wilton 1994
Bearing the burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–1938
“Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions”, Whaples 1994
“The Theory of Special Operations”, McRaven 1993
“Libraries in Hell: Cultural Activities in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps 1930s–1950s”, Mäkinen 1993
Libraries in Hell: Cultural Activities in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps 1930s–1950s
“Methodological Limits and the Mirage of Roman Strategy”, Wheeler 1993
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“War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis”, Mesquita et al 1992
“THE CULT OF THE DEAD IN JUDAH: INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL REMAINS”
THE CULT OF THE DEAD IN JUDAH: INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL REMAINS
“The 1936–1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers”, McCutcheon 1991
“Terminal Delinquents: Once, They Stole Hubcaps And Shot Out Street-Lights. Now They’re Stealing Your Social Security Number And Shooting Out Your Credit Rating. A Layman’s Guide To Computer High Jinks”, Hitt & Tough 1990
“Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511
“Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer”, Bagnold 1990
Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer:
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“The Reality of Cannae”, Samuels 1990
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“‘Tell The World’ What Happened in China and Why”, Binyan et al 1989
“The Real War 1939–1945”, Fussell 1989
“Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing”, Luce 1989
“A Brief History of Magnetospheric Physics Before the Spaceflight Era”, Stern 1989
A brief history of magnetospheric physics before the spaceflight era
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“Those Who Said ‘No!’: Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II”, Kitterman 1988
Those Who Said ‘No!’: Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II
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“Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception”, Dietz 1986
Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception
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To be Taken with a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage
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The Bourbon Restoration: One Century of French Historiography:
“Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens”
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“Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–1975): A Biographical Memoir”, Alvarez 1980
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King Frederick William II And The Decline Of The Prussian Army, 1786-1797
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Pierfrancesco de' Medici, 1430-1476: A Radical Alternative to Elder Medicean Supremacy?:
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The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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“The Cult of Dead Kin in Assyria and Babylonia”
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Political Prisoner: A Personal Account:
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“Woman Dies In Plunge: Body of Ex-Research Worker Lands Under Hudson Bridge”
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“Hadrian's Wall: A History of the Problem”, Collingwood 1921
“The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, Nevill & Nevill 1920
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Dog A Fake Hero: Pushes Children Into the Seine to Rescue Them and Win Beefsteaks
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“Confusion of Confusions”, Vega & Kellenbenz 1688
“‘Ten Thousand Melodies Cannot Express Our Boundless Hot Love for You’: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China”
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Francisco Franco, Robust Action, and the Power of Non-Commitment
“The Good Tsar Bias”
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The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China's Working Class
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