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History & Anthropology
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History & Anthropology
Pilgrims and Wampanoags
04.25.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe purpose of this post is partly to ponder the pure privation and perilous period of the Puritan’s past while promoting the prodigious presence of the Plimoth Plantation through pictures and praise. Please proceed. Sorry….. Anyways, Cam, Meg, and I spent the day at Plimoth Plantation last weekend and I wanted to give them a [...]
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History & Anthropology
History of the Internet
Just in case you were ever curious. History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
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History & Anthropology
Hardcore History
11.14.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI came across this podcast by accident. It’s called Hardcore History, and I’m completely addicted. The host, Dan Carlin, talks about all kinds of historical events and the impacts they had on the world, but he does so from unusual and thought provoking perspectives. Unfortunately (and yet fortunately), the episodes are so in depth that [...]
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History & Anthropology
The dead city of Pripyat
04.26.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsToday is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I was unaware of this until I heard it this morning on the radio while driving to work. Completely by coincident, a friend of mine and I were looking at pictures of the dead city of Pripyat yesterday, a city in northern Ukraine. Pripyat was evacuated [...]
