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kottke.org: 1491: the New World before Columbus
kottke.org: 1491: the New World before Columbus jkottke: As a belated recognition of Exploration Day, here’s Charles C. Mann’s piece on the history of the Americas before Columbus: 1491. This piece blew my doors off when I first read it. Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated…
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Tackling, at the Turn of the Century
Tackling, at the Turn of the Century azspot: At the time, before the forward pass, football consisted almost entirely of men bashing one another as the ball was carried, foot by foot, down the field. There were no shock-absorbing pads or faceguards: nearly every game produced broken ribs, noses and limbs. Brutal moves were almost…
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This is what myths do: they tell us how things came to be. And all too often the myth-making process is the only way people on the margins can “speak themselves” into existence. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah at Los Angles Review of Books. De origine actibusque aequationis Rachel Jeantel, Rammellzee, Basquiat, and the Art of Being an…
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They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves… They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do…
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Children who are born into a tired world as batteries of new energy are plugged into the system as soon as possible and gradually drained away. At the time when they become adult and conscious they are already depleted and prepared to accept a world of shadows. Those who have kept their spirit find it…