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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    caweyant (56)in #blog • 6 years ago
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    MCU Rewatch – Captain America: The First Avenger

    I'm starting my rewatch with Captain America: The First Avenger as the earliest story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline, even though it was the fifth MCU film to be…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #history • 8 years ago
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    IsraelPalestine for Critical Thinkers

    Two years ago I discovered this amazing video series discussing the IsraelPalestine conflict. Over a series of eight short videos it explained the pertinent history of the…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis (A Review)

    This summer my wife and I took a cruise through Greece. When I travel I try to read quality books from the place I'm visiting to try to get a feel for the culture and its…
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    caweyant (56)in #writing • 8 years ago
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    Monday Morning Writing Motivation: Enthusiasm

    Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson People who know me do not think of me as a particularly enthusiastic person. For one thing, I'm a…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, by Geoffrey Sutton (A Review)

    Years ago I stumbled upon the existence of Esperanto, an auxiliary language invented in the late 1880s to facilitate international communication. I was intrigued by its large…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine (A Review)

    My parents were pastors so I grew up in a very religious household. Although I liked the scholarly nature of bible study, religious belief has never sat well with me. Although my…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    gwynethllewelyn (46)in #democracy • 8 years ago
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    The Ilithiocracy, and how to deal with it

    The definition of stupidity, according to Cipolla Carlo Cipolla was an Italian economic history professor at Berkeley, who adhered to a funny tradition among Italian academics…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    caweyant (56)in #steemit • 8 years ago
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    Flag This, Motherfuckers – A Newbie's Perspective on The Experiment

    I'm fairly new to Steemit. I've posted about 20 times in the last couple weeks since I joined, with a mix of longer posts and some shorter posts in which I joined meme and…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    The Loom of Language, by Frederick Bodmer (A Review)

    The first half of the 20th century was a heady time for language learning and study. The field of philology (now commonly called historical linguistics) was at its zenith. Much…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    fairytalelife (69)in #architecture • 8 years ago
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    The Raping of a Church

    This was a new one for me. Visiting friends in Norfolk, I learned something that would never occur to me in a million years. It seems it is a thing to steal lead from church…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    tokenspeculator (32)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago
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    Storj leaving Counterparty for Ethereum highlights problems with Bitcoin as a platform

    This week Storj, the distributed cloud storage project, announced that they will migrate their token to Ethereum. The Storj token (SJCX) was issued on the Counterparty platform…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Defending the Undefendable, by Walter Block (A Review)

    I'm familiar with Walter Block from Mises Institute-sponsored lectures on their YouTube channel. I like him and agree with many of his arguments, which makes negatively reviewing…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    vampiretta (67)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Book review - Reading the Classics:ANNA KARENINA

    Ever since I got my Literati ereader, I've been reading quite bit. I always was an avid reader as a child but my reading has taken a hit in recent times, so pretty much I've only…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    caweyant (56)in #books • 8 years ago
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    The Secret History of Star Wars, by Michael Kaminski (Review)

    In describing his process of writing the Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis wrote that "you must not believe all that authors tell you about how they wrote their books" ("It All…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago
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    Collect 4%+ interest on your bitcoin savings

    Did you know that Freebitco.in, the popular Bitcoin faucet and dice game, now pays interest on your account balance? This could be a great way to generate some extra revenue from…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    caweyant (56)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

    March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day started by the Tolkien Society to celebrate the written works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I've been a fan of Tolkien since the late 1980s when I…
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  • dmaddock1 reblogged

    felixxx (72)in #neuroscience • 9 years ago
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    Reasons To Learn Latin

    There are plenty of reasons, why you should learn a new language. Some are more obvious than others. I don't want to go into the neurological part too deeply - for simplicity…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Wheelock's Latin (7th edition), by Wheelock & LaFleur (A Review)

    I studied Latin formally for two semesters during my Masters program using the famous textbook Wheelock's Latin. This textbook is the standard throughout universities in the US.…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    Humanism and the mythic

    On the heels of my review of C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image and the concept of "True Myth" which I mentioned there, I've decided to post something I wrote a while back…
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  • dmaddock1 (53)in #books • 8 years ago
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    The Discarded Image, by C.S. Lewis (A Review)

    A few general comments and then I will expound at length about my quibbles. First, this book is a phenomenal introduction to what Lewis calls the "Medieval Model"--the medieval…
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