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Juan Cole & his Napoleon connection

BobG in Vancouver wrote 1 week ago: Image via Wikipedia Juan Cole has been and is recognized for the quality of his blogging about Ira … more »

Tags: about death, Blogging, Choices, History, thinking about politics, Travel, Writings, History, iraq

The force of Nature

BobG in Vancouver wrote 2 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia This was supposed to be a year of national celebration in China with the offic … more »

Tags: thinking about religion, thinking about politics, Choices, about death, The News, Culture, China, mountains, black swan

The Art of Vasily Grossman

BobG in Vancouver wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia Using Viewzi I found interesting web articles about Vasily Grossman including … more »

Tags: Writings, Choices, Culture, History, Vasily Grossman, totalitarianism USSR Stalinism

Another oft repeated story about Napoleon

BobG in Vancouver wrote 3 weeks ago: Image by caribb via Flickr Do you believe that Napoleon died by arsenic poisoning or of stomach c … more »

Tags: Writings, Choices, public art, about death, History

Dalrymple vs. Sam Harris et al

BobG in Vancouver wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia It is, I think, a good sign that Richard Dawkins’ .net web site offers a … more »

Tags: Blogging, Writings, thinking about religion, Culture, End of Faith

Grossman vs. Victor Serge

BobG in Vancouver wrote 4 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia I am finishing Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge, a pseudonym. Inevitably I co … more »

Tags: Writings, thinking about politics, about death, Culture, History, Fascism, USSR

Neural Buddhism according to David Brooks NYT

BobG in Vancouver wrote 1 month ago: In today’s column in NYT he says: This new wave of research will not seep into the public real … more »

Tags: Writings, Living, thinking about science, thinking about religion, Choices, Culture, Science, Neural Buddhism, New Atheists

GWB and his "Churchill cult"

BobG in Vancouver wrote 1 month ago: Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes in NY Review of Books, one of my favorite journals of opinion, writes an … more »

Tags: about death, Choices, History, thinking about politics, Writings, Churchill, good wars, GWB, necessary wars

The post that is viewed most often day in day out!

BobG in Vancouver wrote 2 months ago: It’s about the proposition that Napoleon Bonaparte was the first to develop principles of indu … more »

Tags: Blogging, Writings, Culture, History, my blog, Views, posts to my blog, my blogging

A strange fact about a great astronomer circa 17th century

BobG in Vancouver wrote 2 months ago: I did not know this until today from On this Day in History, On this day in 4977 B.C., the universe … more »

Tags: Writings, thinking about science, Choices, Culture, History, Kepler, planetary motion, birth of the universe, newton

Key Napoleon web site

BobG in Vancouver wrote 2 months ago: and here is the link! I am looking forward to see how this post affects my blog stats. Over the las … more »

Tags: Blogging, Writings, Culture, History, napoleon, Blog Stats

Most views of this web site key on Napoleon

BobG in Vancouver wrote 2 months ago: My main motivation for this post is to test the interest in the blogosphere for posts about Napoleon … more »

Tags: thinking about politics, Choices, History, Napoleon Bonaparte, elba, 1814

More Six Word Reviews15 comments

Eva wrote 3 months ago: Before I get to the reviews, I have to mention the goodness of bloggers! Yesterday, I checked the ma … more »

Tags: Reviews, Challenges, Non-Fiction, TBR, Short Stories, Fiction, INTL, Contemporary, Classic

Another view of the cause of the Universe

BobG in Vancouver wrote 3 months ago: The Templeton Prize 2008 has been awarded to Prof Michael Heller. Here is an excerpt from his writin … more »

Tags: Writings, thinking about science, thinking about religion, Physics, The Universe, mathematics, Life, Nature, God

7 comments

Adair wrote 4 months ago: The Handler This was interesting. I liked the puppet/puppeteer dynamic, and the reactions of the cro … more »

Tags: Gaxton, The Handler

Ruined by Reading (thoughts)17 comments

Eva wrote 4 months ago: What?  A book review?  Say it ain’t so!  Oh yes, dear readers.  I happen to have recently … more »

Tags: Reviews, Non-Fiction, Personal, aboutbooks, *FourStarBooks, Awards, Mondays

Hitlerism and German military were defeated by Stalin's political leadership, Soviet Armed forces and the massive scale of Russian resources, mostly!1 comment

BobG in Vancouver wrote 4 months ago: Every time I read and hear about WW II from the Western perspective, I feel the real story of who wo … more »

Tags: Writings, thinking about politics, about death, Vasily Grossman, Omer Bartov, Life and Fate, Soviet soldiers, Stalin, WW II

Double the Fun, Double the Flavour3 comments

Adair wrote 5 months ago: Having read the Chrysalids as a young teen (about 13-14), and then reading it again, I discovered th … more »

Tags: The Chrysalids, John Wyndham, The Winter Flies, Fritz Leiber

Some Really Good Non-Fiction14 comments

Eva wrote 5 months ago: It seems like lately, non-fic and I are bosom buddies. :)  The last three I read all rated four or … more »

Tags: Non-Fiction, aboutbooks, USSociety, History, *FiveStarBooks, *FourStarBooks, IntlCulture


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