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Please consider pre-ordering a copy of my forthcoming book, The Colour of Time - also available on Amazon US and other websites. Your support would be much appreciated! Thank you.

Edit; the book consists of 200 black and white photographs colorized by me, each accompanied by captions written by historian and bestselling author Dan Jones, covering a 100 years of world history.

US Version as linked above.

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This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law in 1888. The original caption only says "Cafuza". Nothing else is known about this woman neither about when or where the photo was taken. "Cafuzo is a racial term used in the Casta caste class system of the Spanish and Portuguese empires to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry.” Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery. By the time it was abolished after years of campaigning by Emperor Pedro II, in 1888, an estimated four million slaves had been imported from Africa to Brazil, 40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas. (source: wiki)

These will not be sold as prints but I'll make the whole collection available in high-resolution (for free) on my website in case you want to use it for educational purposes.

I think it's actually quite a shame how we've turned Lincoln into a deity-like figure (the Greek Temple style memorial is a big offender here, as is Mount Rushmore). The think that makes Lincoln so awesome when you read about him how relatable and humble he was. He loved to read dumb humor stories and to go to the theater every night--he would have loved TV. He had a down-home joke or story for every occasion--you can read a book of them collected while he was still in living memory here--grain of salt as to the details, of course, but it gives you an idea.

Unlike so many other leaders, he had experienced a lot of failure in his life, so he wasn't so tied up in ego. He didn't care if a general or cabinet member was disrespectful--he cared if he could use him. When Salmon P. Chase, his Treasury Secretary, was going behind Lincoln's back to campaign to replace him, Lincoln just pointed out that as long as Chase was motivated to work for the presidency, he was going to do his best at his job.

Just pre-ordered it. Your work is amazing and it's just a little pay back for the free stuff you post on Reddit.

Here's a link to the US Amazon site

My book in collaboration with historian Dan Jones will be out in just a few weeks, so please consider pre-ordering it if you can. That's the best way to support my work. Thank you!

Building the Statue of Liberty, Paris, 1881.

The Statue of Liberty is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed in Roman numerals with "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national park tourism destination, and is a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Wiki)

"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green." - READ MORE IN MY BOOK "THE COLOUR OF TIME", available on Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble and at the nearest bookshop!

I guess we will never know. But i read this book " Sniping in France: Winning the Sniping War in the Trenches ", and it appears that there was a wealth of experience and knowledge about sniping at the end of WW1.

You're thinking of his son Kermit. I'm halfway done with Candice Millard's book about it, River of Doubt, and its been a pretty good listen.

There is a book, better than any other I've read on the subject called "The Friendless Sky" ISBN 978-0586058237

It engagingly tells the stories of the first ever air-battles and the chivalry that still existed. It is very accessible and fascinating. It is my favourite WW1 book. Buy it. Torrent it. Just read it! I promise you'll be entertained.

Great job, Jordan.

I first became aware of these photos in college, but it was this book that made me aware they were taken just a few miles from where I grew up. The parents in these photos passed away before I was born, but I probably met some of their grandchildren, and possibly even one of the children in the photos. Even now it's a bit mindblowing.

This article follows up the families' histories.

https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Miller-Womans-Hilary-Roberts/dp/0500518181/ref=mp_s_a_1_1/141-9590453-5111540?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545850057&amp;sr=1-1&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&amp;dpPl=1&amp;dpID=51nr9iWTqkL&amp;ref=plSrch

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On this day in 1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis with Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Experimental Physics, serving as pro-forma advisor. As a result, Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zürich, with his dissertation "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions".

In that same year, which has been called Einstein's annus mirabilis (miracle year), he published four groundbreaking papers, on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy, which were to bring him to the notice of the academic world, at the age of 26.

A Train in Winter is really good. Its about the women who resisted German occupation and we're eventually shipped to Auschwitz because of it. Some were medically experimented on and many were forced to watch the execution of their husbands and sons.

If you read the book on the Rat Pack you'll see that the cause of a lot of the casual racism towards Sammy Davis Jr. came from Sinatra. Sammy laughed hard at all the 'smokey' jokes, but inwardly he tired of it all greatly. It's also thought that Sinatra wasn't really a racist, but that it was his way of getting at the man who was the greatest talent of the five of them.

Hans von Luck was a busy man during WW2. He was in most of the major campaigns and battles of the war. On D-Day, he commanded a regiment in the 21st Panzer Division which was on the east side of the Orne river (the flank of the British side). When Pegasus bridge was taken (an incredible story by itself), it was his tanks that tried to retake it. His autobiography is a must read for WW2 buffs.

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Ok so there was a really interesting book I read about biology once that talked about how bloodletting might have worked at one point, because people with hemocromatosis lived through the Black Death at a MUCH higher rate than others, so after like a third of western Europe's population was wiped out a large portion left had hemocramatosis. It was a such an interesting book- talked about different biological explanations for pop culture, current events, politics, etc. I'm going to try and find it and will edit when I do.

EDIT: Found it! Would recommend. I read it years ago in high school and still think about every once in a while - https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Sickest-Surprising-Connections-Longevity-ebook/dp/B000OI0E6I

"on killing" by Dave Grossman provides a lot of insight to this. Exceptional read On Killing

not an M39 based on the barrel band location

looks like it has soviet receiver markings

the sights also look soviet to me rather than the m28/30 style

This picture of Turing makes him look sort of handsome. Church didn't look terrible either. I couldn't find a flattering photo of Curry, though, but I'd definitely make sweet love to the language named after him.

Bertrand Russell's 'A History of Western Philosophy' is still the best book I have ever read. I have never come across someone so eloquent in their wording that can provide irrefutable arguments with such regulatory and ease.

He single handedly destroyed everything Sir Thomas Aquinas stood for in 4-5 paragraphs.

please read the top comment, and the link.

African Americans were already voting 77% Democrat during the election of Truman more than a decade earlier (page 14, citation 98)

If you have different information I'd like to see a source.

At this point it is the Oligarchy.

bour·geoi·sie ˌbo͝orZHwäˈzē/Submit noun the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. (in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production.

The people in power are way beyond the middle class and they are destroying it as fast as they can.

The poor are being imprisoned to do the slave Labor.

13th Amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

If you get a chance to watch &quot;13th&quot; on Netflix, please do so. It will open your eyes.

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> Well, Reddit isn't exactly a good cross section of society. Thank God for that.

It's not as far off as you might think, unfortunately.
Howard Dean outright accused Bannon of being a Nazi.

I'll no doubt be flooded with idiots saying, "Reee Dean was right!", but you and I both know Bannon isn't a fucking Nazi. But that's a former governor, DNC chair, and candidate for Democratic nomination for president labelling someone he doesn't like a Nazi.

It's fucking terrifying.

This post by Wargaming's historian The Chieftain details tank name ambiguity, and this snippet talks about the Wolverine specifically: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftains-hatch-whats-name/

"There is one very obvious and disappointing omission here, however, that being the 3" GMC M10. I have never been a supporter of the name “Wolverine”, and though it’s commonly stated on websites, I have seen no War Office documentation to support the proposal that it was a British name. Further, it fits in with neither the British policy on naming US tanks, nor on their policies of naming artillery pieces after the clergy or the letter “A.” Even “Achilles” didn’t show up as a name until very late in the war. Now, that said, there are two reasonable arguments in favour of the name. Firstly, a wolverine is arguably an animal of some lethality and so would fit in with the idea of it being the name for a US artillery piece, as a gun motor carriage. However, the assignment of “General Jackson” and "General Scott" indicates a classification for naming purposes of a motor carriage as a tank, so a “General” name would presumably have been selected. The other possibility, which I have seen nothing to confirm, but similarly cannot disprove, is that it is a name given by the Canadians, who tended to name all their vehicles after animals. Even their M4 Mediums were named “Grizzly” so they evidently had no issues with going their own way."

Assuming you are sincerely wanting to learn about evolution and not just 'asking questions', I highly recommend The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins or his Christmas Lectures which go through the evidence and rationale of evolution.

May (as she preferred to be called) was from Lewisham in London and joined the WSPU in 1907. She became known as the ‘cripple suffragette’, not just by other suffrage campaigners but also by the national newspapers. May took part in suffrage processions in her wheelchair (known as a tricycle), distributing leaflets as she went. Her tricycle was brightly decorated with flowers and in WSPU colours. In November 1910, May took part in a suffrage demonstration that became known as 'Black Friday' because of the violent treatment of women by police. During the protest, she was thrown out of her tricycle.

She was sentenced to one month’s hard labour in 1912 for taking part in a window-smashing campaign, and received another eight-month sentence for her role in the December 1912 attacks on pillar boxes in Deptford. The people that force-fed her ripped her nostril and broke a tooth. Her treatment was reported in the newspapers and, after appeals, she was released. (Read more at suffrageresources.org.uk)

After the women’s vote was won Rosa retired from activism. You can read about more women like her in my new book in collaboration with Dan Jones, A Woman’s World, published yesterday: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Womens-Work-Dan-Jones/dp/1800240244

I am only familiar with Bonobos from reading Bonobo Handshake by Vanessa Woods. As for Dolphins... if it didn't occur on FLIPPER, I have no clue.

Found this fascinating article about Dali and fascism.

http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/when-the-surrealists-expelled-salvador-dali-for-the-glorification-of-hitlerian-fascism-1934.html

>Argue that she didn't actually hate them if you want, but don't play semantic word games with me.

What lol? I'm not playing any semantics, I never said she didn't hate people, because she does hate people, she's an ableist! Are you bothering to read what I have written? Disdain is another word for hatred, they're synonymous.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/disdain

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There's not much to see. The entire park was demolished decades ago and replaced with housing towers, called the "Luna Park Houses".

Here's a pic, and here's a map location. Those towers occupy the same footprint as the original Luna Park.

I'm in the middle of a book about Hitler's first 100 Days where he went from Chancellor to Fuhrer by trickery and brute force. We're not close to that. Yet. There aren't 50k uniformed quasi soldiers in every major city beating and murdering opponents. Yet.

Anyways it's sunny fun tyme stories/reading for bedtime :-P Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-First-Hundred-Days-Embraced/dp/154169743X

You can find out more about him and other survivors in the book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War.

To put it bluntly he was a philosopher with an agenda. His 'A History of Western Philosophy' is horrifically biased, unscholarly and downright misleading on some of the most eminent continental philosophers. I haven't read something that propagandistic since The Open Society and It's Enemies. See here for a more in-depth analysis of why analytic philosophers (like Russell & Popper) so often misunderstand and refuse to engage with otherwise prolific thinkers.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/kaufmann.htm

His trial raised delicate issues of command responsibility for the first time, but lets go to some examples during the trial. During the trial officers from the Canadian 3rd Division, the same division that the Canadians shot at the abbey were a part of. One officer quoted that if Kurt Meyer "was found guilty of the war crime, then the Canadian army will have no generals by tomorrow." Though this quote is from Kurt Meyers Autobiography Grenadiers. (p. 370)

Here is a good source on from an external viewpoint of the trial, but I also suggest looking at the trial minutes, see the charges, and then ask your self why the command of the Canadian forces of Europe, General Vokes, commuted his sentence.

https://www.amazon.com/Casual-Slaughters-Accidental-Judgments-Prosecutions/dp/1442652330