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artappraiser — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:07:21 +0000

In reply to Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

Archaeologists have learned that the ancient city of Karakorum, once the capital of the Mongolian Empire, was much larger than previously believed, according to a new studyhttps://t.co/0kRSY6MYZy
— ARTnews (@artnews) November 5, 2021

Didn't read it yet, but

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 15:30:38 +0000

In reply to Carter deregulated, beat

Didn't read it yet, but Carter & his Fed chief did the belt tightening that made Reagan's job easy. As usual GOP gives away Dem surpluses or balanced budget or at least brought under control (Carter to Reagan, Clinton to Bush, Obama to Trump) - a lovely doesie-doh.

Carter deregulated, beat

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 05:44:26 +0000

In reply to Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

Carter deregulated, beat inflation, and initiated the policies that would help bring down the USSR.

Reagan, meanwhile, didn't deregulate or spend as much on defense as people think.https://t.co/LUrl8KyBAV
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) November 3, 2021

Wow, I'll definitely have to read this one.
— Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63) November 4, 2021

Still the best article ever

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:16:45 +0000

In reply to Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

Still the best article ever written on the pandemic.https://t.co/NBcrebUPt4
— Trisha Greenhalgh (@trishgreenhalgh) October 11, 2021

found retweeted by Dr. Atul Gawande, still my favorite truth investigator of medicine

lol at your first sentence...

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:54:20 +0000

In reply to I kept thinking "what would

lol at your first sentence...

"Battle if Algiers" is a good

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:25:00 +0000

In reply to War and Memory in France and

"Battle of Algiers" is a good movie, comes across nearly documentary.

I kept thinking "what would

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:24:15 +0000

In reply to Slavery in Brazil From

I kept thinking "what would Andrew Cuomo do?" while reading, for some reason. Also curious why the Queen didn't have to fight a war that killed 1/5 the population and permanently sidelined large regions of the country.

War and Memory in France and

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:10:05 +0000

In reply to Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

War and Memory in France and Algeria

Sixty years after the end of the Algerian War of Independence, “painful passions” on both sides continue to impede the reconciliation of the French and Algerian people.

By Alice Kaplan @ NY Review of Books, for the Nov. 18 issue (NO PAYWALL on this one)

Reviewed:

La gangrène et l’oubli: La mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie [Gangrene and Oblivion: Memories of the Algerian War]

by Benjamin Stora, Paris: La Découverte, 377 pp., €14.00 (paper)

Les clés retrouvées: Une enfance juive à Constantine [Finding the Keys: A Jewish Childhood in Constantine]

by Benjamin Stora, Paris: Flammarion, 144 pp., €8.00 (paper)

France-Algérie: Les passions douloureuses [France-Algeria: Painful Passions]

by Benjamin Stora, Paris: Albin Michel, 208 pp., €18.90 (paper)

Ali Boumendjel (1919–1957): Une affaire française. Une histoire algérienne [Ali Boumendjel (1919–1957): A French Affair. An Algerian History]

by Malika Rahal, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 295 pp., €29.00 (paper) (to be republished by La Découverte in January)

I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter

by Mokhtar Mokhtefi, translated from the French and with an introduction by Elaine Mokhtefi, Other Press, 413 pp., $26.99

Out of Savannastan

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:00:40 +0000

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Out of Savannastan

A new book provides convincing evidence that our earliest direct ancestors evolved in Europe, and that they were walking upright as early as six million years ago. But it is overly confident in its challenge to the idea that the genus Homo arose in Africa.

By Tim Flannery @ NY Review of Books for the Nov. 4 issue (NO PAYWALL on this one)

Reviewed: Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Böhme, Rüdiger Braun, and Florian Breier, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst and with a foreword by David R. Begun; Greystone, 337 pp., $34.95

Slavery in Brazil From

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:44:55 +0000

In reply to Other peoples' history, good & bad, Part II (besides "Afro-American History")

Slavery in Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Includes many things I didn't know...