“‘History’ Tag”,2019-05-13
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history, most recent first: 6 related tags, 259 annotations, & 45 links (parent).
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- “Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, 2018
- “Language-Conditioned Absolute Unit NNs”, 2022
- “The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend”, 2011
- “The Math of Hunting Lions”, 2021
- “Newton’s System of the World and Comets”, 2016
- “Open Questions”, 2018
- “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, 2018
- “One Man’s Modus Ponens”, 2012
- “Progress In Beauty”, 2016
- “Fashion Cycles”, 2021
- “The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups”, 2021
- “Review Of The Cultural Revolution, 2016”, 2019
- “McNamara’s Folly: The Denial of Individual Differences”, 2018
- “ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, 2018
- “Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, 2012
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, 2013
- Links
- “That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare”
- “Waiting Your Way to the Top: Dwight Eisenhower’s Slow Career”, 2024
- “We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years”, 2023
- “American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers”, 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”, 2023
- “Have We Lost Sleep? A Reconsideration of Segmented Sleep in Early Modern England”, 2023
- “Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War”, 2023
- “Interview: Masamitsu Yoshioka, 105, on What Happened In the Skies Over Honolulu”, 2023
- “Archaeometric Identification of a Perfume from Roman Times”, et al 2023
- “Communication And The Role Of The Medieval Tower In Greece: A Re-Appraisal”, 2022
- “Women’s Experiences of Infertility After the Holocaust”, 2022
- “Following the Herds? A New Distribution of Hunting Kites in Southwest Asia”, et al 2022
- “Why Are Roman-Period Dice Asymmetrical? An Experimental and Quantitative Approach”, 2022
- “Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture”, et al 2022
- “Ian Fleming’s Soviet Rival: Roman Kim and Soviet Spy Fiction during the Early Cold War”, 2022
- “The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?”, et al 2022
- “Silver Coins, Wooden Tallies and Parchment Rolls in Henry III’s Exchequer”, 2021
- “What Doesn’t Kill Her, Will Make Her Depressed”, 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”, 2021
- “What Was the Point of Equality?”, 2021
- “For Centuries, England’s Go-To Apple Utensil Was a Sheep Bone: No Dentures? No Problem!”, 2021
- “How a Fake Kepler Portrait Became Iconic”, Shore & 2021
- “Why 1914 but Not Before? A Comparative Study of the July Crisis and Its Precursors”, 2021
- “Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling”, 2021
- “Behavioral Scientists and Laypeople Misestimate Societal Effects of COVID-19”, et al 2021
- “Why Are There Seven Sisters?”, 2021b
- “Evaluating Narratives of Ecocide With the Stratigraphic Record at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois, USA”, et al 2021
- “Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes (review)”, 2021
- “Daicon III and IV Opening Animations”, 2020
- “Hot under the Collar: A Latent Measure of Interstate Hostility”, 2020
- “Psychology As a Historical Science”, et al 2020b
- “Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism”, 2020
- “Modeling the Human Trajectory”, 2020
- “The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition”, 2020
- “Empirical ‘Integrated Disease Management’ in Ferrara during the Italian Plague (1629–21631393ya)”, 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”, 2020
- “Teddy Roosevelt on a Moose: Fake News, or Fake Fake News? An Old Photo of a US President on Mooseback Is Often Used to Illustrate the Deep Roots of Media Deception. The Real Story May Not Back That Up.”, 2020
- “Book Review: Hoover [Review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]”, 2020
- “Statistical Sightings of Better Angels: Analysing the Distribution of Battle-Deaths in Interstate Conflict over Time”, et al 2020
- “‘The Intelligence Coup of the Century’: For Decades, the CIA Read the Encrypted Communications of Allies and Adversaries”, 2020
- “Having Had No Predecessor to Imitate, He Had No Successor Capable of Imitating Him”, 2020
- “‘Shattered’: Inside the Secret Battle to save America’s Undercover Spies in the Digital Age”, 2019
- “Statistical Reliability Analysis for a Most Dangerous Occupation: Roman Emperor”, 2019
- “Everything You Need to Know About Napoleon Bonaparte”, 2019
- “Restoring Ancient Text Using Deep Learning (Pythia): a Case Study on Greek Epigraphy”, et al 2019
- “The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
- “The Landshuter Hochzeit (1475)”
- “This. Isn’t. Sparta, Part V: Spartan Government”, 2019
- “Dead Reckoning: The 18th Century Misadventures of HMS Wager and Her Reluctant Crew”, 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”, 2019
- “The Architectural Bias in Current Biblical Archaeology”, Ben-2019
- “Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”, 2019
- “Signals of Strength: Capability Demonstrations and Perceptions of Military Power”, 2019
- “Predicting History”, et al 2019
- “The Most Modern of Modern Sports: The Secret Runaway Success of Kenneth Gandar-Dower’s Racing Cheetahs”, 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?”, 2019
- “Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, 2019
- “Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit”, 2019
- “Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China’s Imperial Examination System”, 2019b
- “Sons and Lovers: Political Stability in China and Europe Before the Great Divergence”, 2018b
- “Paving Pompeii: The Archaeology of Stone-Paved Streets”, 2018
- “Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847–161863161ya”, 2018
- “Are Liberal Governments More Cooperative? Voting Trends at the UN in Five Anglophone Democracies”, 2018
- “Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble”, 2018
- “The Silurian Hypothesis: Would It Be Possible to Detect an Industrial Civilization in the Geological Record?”, 2018
- “The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes”, 2018
- “Bronze Age Iron: Meteoritic or Not? A Chemical Strategy”, 2017
- “How the 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”, 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”, 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?”, 2017
- “As Russian Film Row Escalates, ‘Experts’ Malign Looks Of Last Tsar’s Lover”, 2017
- “Cleaning up After WWII”, jwh1975 2017
- “Men of Honor, Men of Interest”, 2016
- “Pāḷi Numbers (Saṅkhyā)”, Ānandajoti 2016
- “History Is Written by the Losers”, 2016
- “Everybody Wants a Thucydides Trap”, 2016
- “Managing Dutch Advices: Abraham Casteleyn and the English Government, 1660–211681343ya”, 2016
- “Announcing: The Thucydides Roundtable”, 2016
- “The Fascinating and Ego-Killing Existence of Human Wormholes”, 2016
- “Reproductive Trade-Offs in Extant Hunter-Gatherers Suggest Adaptive Mechanism for the Neolithic Expansion”, et al 2016
- “America Will Always Fail At Regional Expertise”, 2016
- “‘Everything Has a Price’: Jimmy Carter and the Struggle for Balance in Federal Regulatory Policy”, 2015
- “Pre-Modern Battlefields Were Absolutely Terrifying”, 2015
- “Awareness vs. Action: Two Modes of Protest in American History”, 2015
- “The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959–2196163ya”, et al 2015
- “Shakespeare in American Politics”, 2015
- “When Modern War Met an Antique Art”, 2015
- Elephas Anthropogenus, 2015
- “The Radical Sun Tzu”, 2015
- “Proving Communal Warfare among Hunter-gatherers: The Quasi-rousseauan Error”
- “ISIS, the Mongols, and ‘The Return of Ancient Challenges’”, 2014
- “Charles I’s Noble Academy”, 2014
- “What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 2”, 2014
- “What Edward Luttwak Doesn’t Know About Ancient China (Or a Short History of Han-Xiongnu Relations), Pt. 1”, 2014
- “Recalling Bitterness: Historiography, Memory, And Myth In Maoist China”, 2014
- “America in Decay: The Sources of Political Dysfunction”, 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”, 2014
- “Meditations on Maoism—Ye Fu’s Hard Road Home”, 2014
- “Culture Clash in the Socialist Paradise: Soviet Patronage and African Students’ Urbanity in the Soviet Union, 1960–5196559ya”, 2014
- “Smallpox on the Steppe”, 2014
- “The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story”, 2013
- Radiance: A Novel, et al 2013
- “The Bow and Arrow in Northern North America”, 2013
- “St Martin’s Four Wishes”, 2013
- “Infant and Child Death in the Human Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation”, 2013
- “Greek Combat Sports and Their Transmission to Central and East Asia”, 2013
- “Ominous Parallels: What Antebellum America Can Teach Us About Our Modern Political Regime”, 2013
- “The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules”, 2012
- “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks, Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–55194579ya”, 2012
- “Mathematics of the Past [Roman Empire Denialism]”, 2012
- “The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, 2012
- “Jewish Problems”, 2011
- “The Life-Spans of Empires”, 2011
- “The Eternity of the World and Renaissance Historical Thought”, 2011
- “The Emirate of Cordoba (756-929 AD) and the Introduction of the Egyptian Mongoose (Herpestes Ichneumon) in Iberia: the Remains from Muge, Portugal”, 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-2011
- “Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism As Politics, Politics As Exorcism”, 2011
- “Scott and Scurvy: How the Cure for Scurvy Was Lost”, 2010
- “NO_aarsberet201014ya_materie:NO_aarsberet201014ya_materie”, 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-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”, 2009
- “The Sacred Groves of Ancient Greece”, 2009
- “Anecdotes, Faits Divers, and the Literary”, 2009
- “The World’s First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–101813211ya”, Mark & Rigau-2009
- “Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications”, et al 2007
- “The History of Infant, Child and Adult Mortality in London, 1550–3001850174ya”, 2007
- “Gibbon Was Right: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Economy”, 2007
- “Gladiatorial Combat: The Rules of Engagement”, 2006
- “How Khrushchev Leaked His Secret Speech to the World”, 2006
- “Oral History of Butler Lampson § WWW”, 2006 (page 36)
- “F✱✱✱ You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb”, 2006
- “The Dubious Quick Kill, Part 1⁄2: Sword Wounds and the Circulatory System”, 2006
- “The Historical Mind and Military Strategy”, 2005
- “Human Mobility in Roman Italy, II: The Slave Population”, 2005
- “Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt”, 2005
- “Syphilis in Renaissance Europe: Rapid Evolution of an Introduced Sexually Transmitted Disease?”, 2004
- “Mark Lombardi: Global Networks”, 2003
- “Comment on ‘Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws’, by Mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575–580 (200222ya)]–Galileo and the Existence of Hell”, 2002
- “Galileo’s Discovery of Scaling Laws”, 2002
- “Landau’s Theoretical Minimum, Landau’s Seminar, ITEP in the Beginning of the 1950’s”, 2002
- “The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail”, 2002
- “Changing Eating Habits on the Home Front: Lost Lessons from World War II Research”, 2002
- “Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System”, 2001
- “The Consequences of Political Dictatorship for Russian Science”, 2001
- “Joachim of Fiore and Apocalyptic Immanence”, 2001
- “Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and the Search for Cinnamon”, 2001
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story—1965–35200024ya, 2000
- “Parallel-Cousin (FBD) Marriage, Islamization, and Arabization”, 2000
- “Toward a History Based Doctrine for Wargaming”, 2000
- “Biological Warfare in 18th-Century North America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst”, 2000
- “Hispanisms in Southwest Indian Languages”, 2000
- “Stalin‘s Genocide against the ‘Repressed Peoples’”, 2000
- “The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-List and the Identity of Nitocris”, 5645 2000
- “The Face of Roman Battle”, 2000
- “War Dogs: A History of Loyalty and Heroism”, 1999
- “The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a Teenager Attempts to Build a Breeder Reactor”, 1998
- “Scholarly Restraints? ABA Accreditation and Legal Education”, 1998
- “Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens”, 1998
- “The Qiang and the Question of Human Sacrifice in the Late Shang Period”, 1996
- “Peter Bartl’s Albanien. Vom Mittelalter Bis Zur Gegenwart (Book Review)”, 1996
- “The Eye of the Needle: The Unique World of Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian”, 1996
- “The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community”, 1996
- “Medieval Monogamy”, 1995
- “Comparative Jurisprudence (I): What Was It Like to Try a Rat?”, 1995
- “Caesar Lives”, 1995
- “Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch”, 1995
- “Islam As a Special World-System”, 1994
- “Inhaling the Spore: Field Trip to a Museum of Natural (un)history”, 1994
- “Bearing the Burden: The Great Toronto Stork Derby, 1926–12193886ya”, 1994
- “Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions”, 1994
- “The Theory of Special Operations”, 1993
- “Libraries in Hell: Cultural Activities in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps 1930s–1950s”, 1993
- “Methodological Limits and the Mirage of Roman Strategy”, 1993
- “War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis”, et al 1992
- “THE CULT OF THE DEAD IN JUDAH: INTERPRETING THE MATERIAL REMAINS”
- “The 1936–193787ya Purge of Soviet Astronomers”, 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”, 1990
- “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, 1990
- “Sand, Wind, and War: Memoirs of a Desert Explorer”, 1990
- “The Reality of Cannae”, 1990
- ‘Tell The World’ What Happened in China and Why, et al 1989
- “The Real War 1939–6194579ya”, 1989
- “The End of History?”, 1989
- “Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing”, 1989
- “A Brief History of Magnetospheric Physics Before the Spaceflight Era”, 1989
- “The Windigo in the Material World”, 1988
- “Those Who Said ‘No!’: Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians during World War II”, 1988
- “The Little Can That Could”, 1987
- “Trapping The Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception”, 1986
- “To Be Taken With a Pinch of Salt: The Destruction of Carthage”, 1986
- “Frank Filce Leek”, 1986
- “Human Life in Russia”, 1984
- “The Bourbon Restoration: One Century of French Historiography”, 1981
- “Demography and the Exposure of Girls at Athens”
- “America’s Other Inauguration”, 1980
- “The Problem of Female Infanticide in the Greco-Roman World”
- “Julius Caesar’s Last Words: A Reinterpretation”, 1980
- “Alfred Lee Loomis (1887–88197549ya): A Biographical Memoir”, 1980
- “King Frederick William II And The Decline Of The Prussian Army, 1786–111797227ya”, 1980
- “Pierfrancesco De’ Medici, 1430–1476: A Radical Alternative to Elder Medicean Supremacy?”
- Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error: Ch2, the domus, 1978
- “The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, 1977 (page 6)
- “General Grant: His Physicians and His Cancer”, 1976
- “Paradoxical Proverbs and Satire in Sumerian Literature”, 1975
- “Society and the Supernatural: A Medieval Change”
- “Some Evidence of Bees and Honey in Ancient Egypt”, 1975
- “The Gospels and Jesus: Some Doubts about Method”, 1974
- “Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera Mechanism: A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B. C”, 1974
- “Theory and Practice of Ability Testing in Ancient Greece”, 1974
- “The Cult of Dead Kin in Assyria and Babylonia”
- “Bridal Pregnancy in Earlier Rural England Further Examined”, 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”, et al 1970
- “Richard Mott Gummere [Obituary] § Pg11”, 1969 (page 11)
- Political Prisoner: A Personal Account, 1964
- “History of Zen Buddhism (363p)”, 1963
- “Toward a Theory of Revolution”, 1962
- “‘Silk? Satin? Kersey? Rags?’ The Choristers’ Theater under Elizabeth and James”, 1961
- “The Lesson of Iraq: ‘Let Us Not Forget That Our Essential Policy Interests Are Identical With Those of the Arabs’”, 1958
- “Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi”
- “Social Change in the South Pacific: Rarotonga and Aitutaki”, 1957
- “Hegel and the 7 Planets”
- “The Art of Classical Swearing”, 1951
- “Review of Le Comte Ferdinand De Bertier (1782–821864160ya) Et L’Enigme De La Congregation”, 1949
- “Secrets by the Thousands”, 1946
- “Auguste and His Claque”, 1946
- “Obituary: Barbara Stoddard Burks”, 1943
- “Barbara Stoddard Burks: 1902–41194381ya”, 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”, 1943
- “Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song”, 1933
- “Hadrian’s Wall: 1921–9193094ya”, 1931
- “Hadrian’s Wall: A History of the Problem”, 1921
- “The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill”, 1920
- “Dog A Fake Hero: Pushes Children Into the Seine to Rescue Them and Win Beefsteaks”, 1908
- “The Cosmographiæ Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller in Facsimile”, et al 1907
- “The Life of Medieval Students As Illustrated by Their Letters”, 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”, 1851
- “Confusion of Confusions”, 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”
- “June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison : A Tale of Derring-Do on the Occasion of His Birthday”
- “ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World”
- “The Truth of Unusual Deaths under Military Expansion: Evidence from the Stable Isotopes of a Human Skull Ditch in the Capital City of the Early Shang Dynasty”
- “The What-You’d-Implicitly-Heard-Before Telling Thing”
- “Book Review: Chronicles Of Wasted Time”
- “Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours”
- “How a Handful of Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution”
- “Thomas Moynihan—Homepage”, 2024
- “Corroborating Written History With Ancient DNA: The Case of the Well-Man Described in an Old Norse Saga”
- “The Mao Mango Cult of 1968 and the Rise of China’s Working Class”
- “Stasi Surveillance”
- “The Battleships Game That Countered German U-Boat Attacks During WW2”
- “Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife”
- “The Lost Virtue of Skull and Bones”
- “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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