"Bluesmen were clever, ambitious, and quick to adapt to changing conditions. And their conditions were changed forever by a mail-order catalog."
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How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues
Let’s hope so. America has the hard-nosed determination to try this and see it through. It’s just a matter of when.
I’ve wanted to see something like this for a while. Watch what happens to the trash created by your lunch in LA.
"The typical instance of Somali piracy isn’t that different from what a young Julius Caesar experienced when he was kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom on his way home from political exile in Asia Minor."
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via the atlantic
Also, a post script: Oh, and one more thing about Caesar. Plutarch tells us that after he was ransomed he got some ships, raided the pirates, and had them all crucified.
"The matter [of horse domestication] has been hotly contested by scientists."
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the whole story is here.
Spoiler alert: horse domestication originated in the western part of the Steppes (Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan) 6000 years ago and that the spread of domestication involved lots of integration of wild horses, probably because the horses wouldn’t breed in captivity
