Category Archives: History

First Memorial Day

Posted on 2019 May 25 by anewc2

https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

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New Party, Who Dis?

Posted on 2019 February 26 by anewc2

https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-will-star-as-superhero-in-new-comic-book/ “slated for release May 15”

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Placebo Effect

Posted on 2018 November 8 by anewc2

I have wondered about this for a long time.

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Did Robert E. Lee bring any slaves with him to the field during the Civil War?

Posted on 2018 July 6 by anewc2

Yes and no. from https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lee_Robert_E_and_Slavery: Yes, early in the war: “in a letter to his brother Charles Carter Lee, dated March 14, 1862, he praised the Confederacy as ‘the noble cause we are engaged in,’ and kept two of the … Continue reading →

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War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita

Posted on 2016 December 13 by anewc2

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/04/war-and-peace-bhagavad-gita/ Becoming an atheist was for me a two step process: first I rejected the Christianity I was baptised and raised in, then I realized that all religions had their inconsistencies, their compromises, their tendency to lose their center by … Continue reading →

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Who was Machiavelli and why is Florence such a wonderful town?

Posted on 2016 September 18 by anewc2

Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)

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How did Trump make his money?

Posted on 2016 March 24 by anewc2

an acquired company that doesn’t end in bankruptcy is money left on the table. … Romney and Trump … are in the same business of financial value extraction. http://jwmason.org/slackwire/brazil-in-drag-hyman-minsky-on-donald-trump/

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What History Teaches us about The Concentration of Wealth

Posted on 2016 March 8 by anewc2

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/03/history-concentration-of-wealth/

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America’s Bank

Posted on 2016 January 29 by anewc2

History of how the Fed was founded. http://thereformedbroker.com/2016/01/29/book-review-americas-bank/

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Civil War

Posted on 2015 December 23 by anewc2

https://www.facebook.com/groups/68404368901/permalink/10154528652123902/

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