Sapere Aude
Tag: history
The transcript provides “insight in how it was that they were able to maintain a pace of work which allowed them to reach 2 really big agreements, on the I.M.F. and the World Bank, within a space of 3 weeks. Keynes was something of a task master”
cue new conspiracy theories from the gold standard nutters.
the war against terrrrrrrrrrrrrists will have an even worse efficacy.
2016-03-22:
Nixon Policy Advisor admits he invented War On Drugs to Suppress ‘Anti-War Left and Black People’
Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet — there is where the bullet went through — and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.
The loan come-ons look familiar, the war paranoia and the confusion about the separation of church and state less so. 
One of the greatest figures in world history, the first to set foot on another world.
The achievement of Neil Armstrong and his crew, relayed live on television on July 20th 1969, held the entire planet spellbound. On their return to Earth, the astronauts were mobbed. Presidents, prime ministers and kings jostled to be seen with them. Schools, buildings and roads were named after them. Medals were showered upon them. A whirlwind post-flight tour took them to 25 countries in 35 days.
jersey shore-style tribal tattoos actually 2.5 ka old.
Tattoos were used as a mean of personal identification – like a passport now, if you like. The Pazyryks also believed the tattoos would be helpful in another life, making it easy for the people of the same family and culture to find each other after death
The first instance of a grand jury can be traced back to the Assize of Clarendon, an 1166 act of Henry II of England.
this might make serving in a grand jury the oldest civic duty.
the original footage has finally been restored.
airports used to be gorgeous and not full of cheap come-ons for “shopping” and constant moral panic about “security”.
favorite downton abbey moment: hit it and car accelerates from 27 kmh to 35 kmh.
2013-02-28: Some shit early drafts:
As Daisy hands the knife to Mrs. Patmore, Daisy’s hand slips, stabbing Mrs. Patmore 7 times in the neck, chest, and arms. Mrs. Patmore falls to the floor, pulling the roast and pan with her, bleeding profusely, dead, covered in red-bliss potatoes. Daisy, horrified at the accident, backs up and slips on the roast, falling, and hitting her head on the open cast-iron stove door. She, too, is dead.
Enter Mrs. Hughes.
2015-04-23: cute
2019-05-21:
2022-02-08: this is 100% true. Gilded Age is Downton Abbey but in NYC.
HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: I’m still worried about Rich Lady.
OTHER HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: Don’t be! She’s rich, ain’t she?
BUTLER: Didn’t you two talk about this earlier this episode?
OTHER HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: That was last episode.
BUTLER: It blurs together for me. I wish we had some subtext. Instead, we just keep saying the same plot points until whatever it is resolves at the end of the season. Oh, well, would one of you take this turtle soup with shellacked truffles up to the dining room? Do not make eye contact with anyone, including the turtle!
Gregor J. Rothfuss 