The Poet as Scientist

Car toutes les armées sont les premières du monde;. La seconde armée du monde;, s'il pouvait en exister une, se trouverait dans un état...

US Government shutdowns are somewhat pooh-poohed by conservatives in particular, because of their contempt for government in general, but, b...

The prosecutors of Tyler Robinson for the murder of Charlie Kirk, in their anger, are making a very serious legal error. Tyler Robinson is ...

One of the more striking illustrations of exactly how our perceptions of physical reality can be distorted by social structures and controls...

I just watched the complete Starship 10 mission presentation, and what struck me, was how it didn't really come across as a news broadca...

The real Adolf Hitler quite casually and analytically explaining the rationale for his actions and the reasons for his problems in the invas...

It took 1500 years to fully develop the steam engine, and, the way it's going, it looks like it might indeed take that long to fully dev...

While I'm unaware of these two extremely well known historical incidents having ever been systematically compared before, I think you...

Virgin born of Paula Stolofsky in 1956 -- she, the most blessed of all mortal women -- Jeffrey Epstein was clearly of divine origins to all ...

One of the great bones of contention between British and Canadian historians on the one hand, and American historians on the other, is wh...

Truth is funnier than fiction. Reality is truly incomprehensible and bizarre, and the best jokes are simply very straightforward and direc...

The thing you have to understand, is that the notion that “higher education” is immensely valuable, is essentially a twentieth century delus...

On the surface at least, Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" would seem to be a simple rip-off of Gustave Flaubert's brilliant and i...

What's the technically correct term for the precise interior decorating style used by Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa in their fabulous 1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_M%C3%BCller_(Gestapo) I'm becoming rather concerned about something. We've all noticed how ...

Hi: This is Myname 271, and, I have to admit, although I still don’t think you’re Elon Musk, you are putting on a very good Elon Musk act, ...

Napoleon only managed to win the battle of Marengo, in 1800, out of incredible luck. He had been outgeneraled, outfought, outstrategized a...

Many people love Donald Trump, and many people hate him. However, even the people who are indifferent to Donald Trump -- like myself -- are...

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Huey Long was a somewhat unique character in American history. A socialist populist with broad appeal, but, also, a man with violent and d...

Red baiting, hate mongering demagogue Joseph McCarthy was remarkably popular for a time, in the US. He played into the fear of the US popul...

In 1948, Josef Stalin decided he'd had enough of the power sharing arrangement in Berlin, and that he'd use his control of surroundi...

While Benjamin Franklin is most credited for being one of the founding fathers of the United States, he was, also, a very brilliant amateur ...

Saidit.net, although right wing in tone, used to be a very nice site. You could post anything you wanted, of any political stripe. You...

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hat might have changed things quite a bit. It was the conflict between Napoleon and Portugal that ultimately led to the Peninsular War, and...

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What did the Queen of France, Joan of Arc, accomplish during her short reign according to French historians? Joan of Arc was never Queen of ...

I've been becoming progressively more uncomfortable with the extremely common use of the term "Gaslighting" -- from the superb...