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- Links 29 December 2023
- Against Race
- Fertility Decline
- Uruk, or, Was Civilization a Mistake?
- Ethel Lindgren on Cultural Appropriation
- Emilie Zola's "Paradise for Ladies"
- Links 22 December 2023
- Happy Solstice
- No, I have Not Done This. I Swear.
- Tranforming New College
- African French
- Protection from Animal Bites in medieval Turkey
- Vajra Chandrasekera, "The Saint of Bright Doors"
- Links 15 December 2023
- Henry Vaughan on the Arrival of Inspiration
- Franz Marc's Hand-Painted Postcards
- Reading Taliesin
- Pompeii, Images of New Finds
- The Crane Bag and the Domestication of Myth
- The History and Afterlife of Malaga Island
- Links 8 December 2023
- The Transformation of Le Plessis-Robinson
- Daniel Immerwahr on Deepfakes
- Léonard Misonne's Photographs that Don't Look Like...
- More on Talking Too Much about Mental Illness
- Links 1 December 2023
- RIP Henry Kissinger
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About Me
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
Marc died in 1916 at the Battle of Verdun.
This a self-indulgent tangent, but I feel like our little habitual social niceties when talking about death oughtn't apply when talking about World War I.
I feel like we owe it to history, and to ourselves, to preserve the grimness of it all, and speak truthfully about it - Marc didn't die there, Marc was killed at the Battle of Verdun. We're more than a century past - there's no need to soften the phrasing to spare anyone's feelings.
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