History

Posted on August 13, 2024August 11, 2024 by Simon

Study history, realize people have been this stupid for thousands of years.... Read More

Everything

Posted on October 11, 2023October 5, 2023 by Simon

“Everything you buy makes everything you own less valuable.” In Trento, Italy they discovered the remains of a Roman town under one of the main squares. this is part of the artifact hoard.... Read More

Global Warming Good

Posted on September 20, 2023September 18, 2023 by Simon

Otzi the Iceman was discovered in 1991by some hikers in the high Alps near the border of Austria and Italy. He had been frozen in a glacier for 5000 years. It appears that he was murdered. From his mu... Read More

Books

Posted on July 14, 2022July 7, 2022 by Simon

“Before printing the total number of books in Europe was well under one hundred thousand. By 1500, after forty-five years of the printed book, the total has been calculated at nine million.̶... Read More

Lessons from History

Posted on February 16, 2022February 14, 2022 by Simon

“That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history has to teach us.” Aldous Huxley... Read More

History

Posted on May 22, 2020May 21, 2020 by Simon

“Most history is guessing and the rest is prejudice.” Will Durant In Volume One of The Story of Civilization Photo is of a Saguaro Flower. This years bloom is not as big as in past years b... Read More

Book Review: The End of History

Posted on March 5, 2019February 26, 2019 by Simon

The End of History by Francis Fukuyama I tried to read The End of History back in the 1990s when it first came out and failed. I couldn’t follow the arguments at all and gave up. This time I l... Read More

Election Day Final

Posted on November 6, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

A Hohokam petroglyph site near Badger Springs AZ Politics is applied ethics No matter how the election turns out today the Hohokam will still be gone and eventually so will we. From the archeological ... Read More

Monument Moment

Posted on August 3, 2018July 21, 2018 by Simon

“To the Heroes who have fallen in the various battles with ______ Indians in the Territory of New Mexico.” We saw this plaque with the word removed on the monument in the Plaza in Santa Fe... Read More

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Tag: History

History

Everything

Global Warming Good

Books

Lessons from History

History

Book Review: The End of History

Election Day Final

Monument Moment