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Under the not-so hidden hand of SPQR, Monte Python asks the key question...

Good grief... I thought Lenin was a Jew. Now he is a Tartar? Wait! Aren't black Americans also Tartars, I mean, Moors.... All Turks and Uzbeks are bald? Why not compare genitals? Could it be that your source is just plain Soviet? I wager that the Soviets wanted such a collection of...

No kidding...

Rimbaud the poet? And Che the middle-linebacker? Same as it ever was?

More Freemasonic dudes, "Union"-type soldiers, and a toppled Greek-Roman god-- supposedly Napoléon in toga drag. Move along... Can someone please tell me who the good guys are?

Soft disclosure in Gone with the Wind (1939)?

People in the late 19th century in the West were obsessed with supernatural appearances in photography. Conjuring spirits during seances, they would routinely capture images of ectoplasm. There has probably always been a supernatural element to these devices. Certainly, elderly Chinese I...

According to Naked Against the Rain: The People of the Lower Columbia River, 1770-1830 (1999), they had more or less vanished by 1830. The review I link above reveals the paucity of empirical knowledge and the trivial "critical" games played among academics with "narrative-compliant" knowledge...

These flat heads lived among (but not within?) "Greek revival" architecture? Like their better outfitted cousins in France? St John's City Hall I wonder if they, like Washington, wore togas, which were also elided by compliant ethnographers? This question is not absurd but reasonable--...

The Chinook people inhabited both sides of the lower Columbia river until they suddenly disappeared around 1830-40. For example, "by 1840, the number of Clatsop Indians was 200..." They were "flat heads". From the Oregon History Project: --Era 1792-1845 (Early Exploration, Fur Trade...

Has anyone ever done a simple computation of how much horse hair and plaster would be necessary for such construction?

I'll just put this question flat out: Who but "the gods" could rebuild these towns lickety split? ________________ As for insurance agent knowledge... Who knows? I fired my "Free Masonic" agent yesterday because he was tight-lipped about everything I asked him-- general questions, like, "What...

Yesterday I decided I would change insurance agencies and spent a couple hours with a fellow at another agency. During the discussion, I raised the specter of large-scale indemnity. I had my computer open and went to this website and showed him the picture of Baltimore, 1906. I showed him the...

To be honest, I get a little confused by the discussion of buildings angles and view points. So let me bow out of this side of the discussion. The fellow with the steel helmet was wearing work-khakis. I also should note that public works in USA really began in the 30s. They had the technology...

My evidence stems from growing up in the working class (no surplus meaning attached). The whole scene seems very familiar to me. The men, dressed in khakis, look post-WW1 at the very earliest; their helmets look made of steel; maybe war surplus. (Workers weren't too fond of such gear until it...

The message is clear: 1889, the year the State of Washington entered USA, Inc. No coincidence.

I think what you are seeing there are legit contemporary construction, concrete, and civil workers/engineers, who have created a cement surface over the windows of prior infrastructure to complete their project according to specs.

This is the stupid story in Seaside: In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the Franco Prussian War (1870-1871). After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a...

Do you have any idea where the real records are kept?

The building. In Oregon as a teen, I went to Seaside often. Right on the coast, was this building at the turn of the 20th century: It was torn down and replaced by a cheap hotel before I ever got there. My point is the prior people built, without undue fear of global warming or tides, right...