March 2012
23 posts
Trained in the U.S.A. →
verbalresistance:
The United States has a long history of inadvertently (and sometimes not so inadvertently) training future coup plotters around the world.
Mali - AMADOU HAYA SANOGO
Training: U.S. military officials have acknowledged that Sanogo “participated in several U.S.-funded International Military Education and Training (IMET) programs in the United States, including basic officer...
Ancient Arabic writings help scientists piece...
archaeologicalnews:
Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed. The research, published in Weather, analyses the writings of scholars, historians and diarists in Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age between 816-1009 AD for evidence of abnormal weather...
Personal Note: Question
letterstomycountry:
Does the Derrick Zoolander Center for Children Who Can’t Read Good have its own citation format?
If it does, I’m fairly certain that the author of the article I’m currently editing may have used it: I know of no official citation format in which “A [insert journal name] at [##]” is adequate. Aren’t people ashamed to submit stuff like this for publication?
What is perhaps...
Notes on St Peter's Cornhill, London →
St Peter’s, Cornhill, London. The church of which the Revd Thomas Roberts was Rector, St Peter’s Cornhill, was closed some years ago but is today used as an overspill for the hugely popular “charismatic” church of St Helen, Bishopsgate - so I am informed by the Rector of the nearby St Michael’s, Cornhill (which latter, by all accounts, is not to be missed for its...
The Middle Ages ~ The Black Death →
