Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Breaking News: Radical Historian Howard Zinn Dies at 87

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From the Boston Globe : "Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87" January 27, 2010 07:12 PM By Mark Feene...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Martin Luther King Day: History channel comes through (more or less)

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Martin Luther King Day. So, I turned on the History channel as I often do on historical anniversaries, with a mixture of pessimism and maso...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Who's Being Diabolical Here? Pat Robertson Blames Earthquake on Revolutionary Haiti's Pact With the Devil

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Not for the first time, I spoke too soon . When I heard the news of the Haitian disaster, I naturally thought of Voltaire's poem on the ...

On the Earthquake

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In this moment of tragedy, hearts and thoughts turn immediately to the people of Haiti and their plight. The historian may be forgiven if hi...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Miep Gies, Who Aided the Frank Family and Saved Anne Frank's Papers, Dead at 100

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The BBC reports today: Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has di...
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Isaac Newton follow-up (and religion and science)

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As chance would have it, the History channel program on Newton in the "Nostradamus" series aired again last night. As noted , it...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Amherst Master Plan Public Forum Postponed Till February

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The Amherst Master Plan , which had been moving slowly but steadily through the bowels of Town government like a tapir through an anaconda, ...

4 January: Anniversary of Newton's Birth Yields Google's First Animated Logo

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The 367th anniversary of Isaac Newton's birthday moved Google (no pun intended; honest) to introduce its first animated daily logo: a b...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

3 January 1919: Chaim Weizmann and Emir Faisal Sign Agreement on Encouragement of Jewish Settlement in Palestine

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We recently had occasion to allude to the fact that, popular notions of eternal hatreds notwithstanding, Arabs and Jews were not doomed to ...

Into the New Year

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One of my first and main New Year's resolutions is to wrap up some stories from the end of 2009, which I'll try to do in the next we...