Greatest Comparativist in History. On the scabrous PSJR site, the questions was raised, “Greatest Comparativist Ever? Living or Dead?” Usual names. Someone suggested Marx. My response is here: Marx is plausible as an answer to the “Best …

The rest is here:
Kids Prefer Cheese: Greatest Comparativist in History

February 13, 2010. TRACING HUMAN HISTORY through hair. Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 8:22 pm. Get the Pajamas TV – V2.0 widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit …

Excerpt from:
Instapundit » Blog Archive » TRACING HUMAN HISTORY through hair….

What is believed to be the oldest Roman coin ever found in Britain makes its museum debut, 2220 years after it was made. The silver denarius coin is now on display at Harborough Museum, Market Harborough alongside other coins that were …

Original post:
Liberal England: Harborough Museum has the oldest Roman coin found …

TAXPROF: A Government Takeover of 401(k)s? If that happens, we may see members of Congress literal… January 18, 2010. FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, history drives an automobile. Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 1:19 pm …

See more here:
Instapundit » Blog Archive » FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, history …

Leicester New Walk Museum and Art Gallery: A Journey out of Darkness. From the museum’s website: “A Journey Out of Darkness” is a stunning exhibition of over 100 artworks, which explores the development of Leicester’s German …

Continued here:
Liberal England: Leicester New Walk Museum and Art Gallery: A …

Own a piece of imbecilic history. Who would not want to possess the juvenile bullshit of the swells after 125 plus years of indecency? A human skull that apparently was turned into a ballot box for Yale’s mysterious Skull and Bones …

View post:
Rising Hegemon: Own a piece of imbecilic history

Friday, January 01, 2010. A short history of TV station logos. Mark Reckons has a piece looking at the problems facing ITV. One of his proposed solutions is to restore the regional identities that the third channel has lost. …

Source:
Liberal England: A short history of TV station logos

Regardless of having found myself in a new field or not, I’m finding this stuff just fascinating and has me wondering how much someone who graduates with a degree in architecture actually learns about this stuff and, if it is learned, …

More:
Cultivating Phronesis: Aesthetics & Architecture

Attaturk, DeDurkheim and Chompollion blast the GOP and Bush–as everyone should.

Original post:
Rising Hegemon: Let's just re-write history

Alternative history. Watching the 20th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall led to an interesting television moment. The French channels covering the event live were stuck with the German audio feed during the Sarkozy speech, …

Here is the original post:
Best of Both Worlds: Alternative history