Stranger Things Have Happened

A history blog, focusing primarily on the author's research and reading in American (particularly colonial, Revolutionary, and Native American) history.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

That's Quite Enough, Mister Manypenny

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Your Humble Narrator occasionally still publishes A Thing (other than this blog). Last fall the online journal Cosmos & Taxis included ...

Wednesday, March 08, 2023

Some Light Reading for Our Second Gilded Age

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Coming soon to C-suite office bookshelves and rich dads’ Father’s Day lists: Jet Dreams (Baseturn, $120 US), an illustrated tribute to ow...

Thursday, February 23, 2023

In the Army Now

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When in 1948 the American ambassador to Egypt, Stanton Griffis, asked for an estimate of army strength in a nearby Southwest Asian country*,...

Monday, January 30, 2023

Take That, You Tower-Building Fiends

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The Eiffel Tower, most iconic of Paris’s monuments, has no obvious function beyond holding up an expensive restaurant and thousands of bew...

Thursday, December 15, 2022

What I've Been Reading

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Herewith, some of the more memorable books Your Humble Narrator read this year: The Ballad of Black Tom : Say what you will about Cthulhu,...

Friday, November 25, 2022

Any Good News in 2022?

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Courtesy of Future Crunch , here is a selection of good-news stories from the past year. Most did not make it into mainstream media (whateve...

Monday, October 31, 2022

No Amount of Praise Is Ever Enough

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Longtime fans of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight will recall his episode (12 Aug. 2019) on Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the incumbent autoc...

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