Very Briefly Noted 2020-01-16:
Dante Alighieri (1320): Inferno https://delong.typepad.com/files/dante-inferno.pdf...
The Angry Staff Officer: Helm’s Deep https://angrystaffofficer.com/2019/10/20/warfighter-helms-deep/: 'Gandalf was able to build combat power through liaison networks and would bring victory out of defeat. He remains the most proficient ideal of the staff officer...
Dante's Library: Lancelot https://sites.duke.edu/danteslibrary/lancelot/: '“A Gallehault indeed, that book and he/who wrote it, too; that day we read no more” Galeotto fu ‘l libro e chi lo scrisse/quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante, the pilgrim faints: “And I fell as a dead body falls” [e caddi come corpo morto cade] (Inf.5.142)...
Gustave Doré: Dante Alighieri: Inferno: Plate 12 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Dor%C3%A9_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_12_(Canto_IV_-_Limbo,_Dante_is_accepted_as_an_equal_by_the_great_Greek_and_Roman_poets).jpg: 'Dante is accepted as an equal...
Kenneth Rogoff: The Inequality Debate We Need https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-energy-inequality-carbon-tax-by-kenneth-rogoff-2020-01: 'The scientific evidence increasingly indicates that the world may soon reach a point of no return regarding climate change. So, rather than worrying almost exclusively about economic and political inequality, rich-country citizens need to start thinking about how to deal with global energy inequality before it’s too late...
U.C. Berkeley: Course Capture https://coursecapture.berkeley.edu/home...
Jason Kottke: Ridgeline Maps of the World https://kottke.org/20/01/ridgeline-maps-of-the-world...
John D. Grainger (2002): The Roman War of Antiochos the Great https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Roman_War_of_Antiochos_the_Great/fTf0Nkjw5-gC...
Wikipedia: Roman–Seleucid War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Seleucid_War...
Samuel Pao-San Ho: Colonialism and Development: Korea, Taiwan and Kwantung <(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315237923/chapters/10.4324/9781315237923-13>: "Economic growth in three colonies within the broad context of Japanese imperialism. It discusses Japan's needs and how they determined the economic role played by her colonies.... The Japanese tried to develop Korea, Kwantung, and Taiwan as they had developed their economy in the late nineteenth century. The colonies were closely tied to Japan to create the "bilateralism" so conspicuous of colonialism...
Gregory King: Estimates https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/king.htm: Population and wealth, England and Wales, 1688...
Scott Alexander: SSC Journal Club: Dissolving The Fermi Paradox https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissolving-the-fermi-paradox/...
Brad DeLong: Bequests: An Historical Perspective https://www.bradford-delong.com/2014/04/bequests-an-historical-perspective-hoisted-from-the-archives-for-april-2-2014.html...
Brad DeLong: Let's Have a Daniel Davies Day! ("Tricky Cases Where the Rightwingers Happen to Be Right" Department) https://www.bradford-delong.com/2007/11/lets-have-a-dan.html...
HotTubThings.com: Premium Spa Chemicals and Supplies https://hottubthings.com/...
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