History, Argued Honestly

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• Entre Tetris e Chocolatinhos

  Uma manhã fria de julho. Café na xícara, pouco açúcar, barriga roncando, e a cabeça ainda presa entre duas noites: uma palestra sobre convivência que prometia mudança, e um silêncio estratégico num restaurante barulhento, quando alguém propôs um clube de leitura e alguém respondeu, sem querer, com o silêncio de quem espera que o assunto morra sozinho. Convido a todos a participarem dos grupos: Do Brasil e Em Português.

• The quite noise inside me

  I don't know where I go when I leave the moment I'm living. My body keeps moving forward, but my mind disappears somewhere else. I carry other people's pain, overthink every little thing, and forget to care for myself. Maybe I'm not tired of life. Maybe I'm just tired of carrying everything I feel.

• From Functional Water to Clinical Nutrition: Where Profit Pools Are Shifting in Selenium Beverages
• Meu sexto sentido

  Fim de tarde, tevê, família na sala e uma ocorrência...

• Can a Man Really Turn Into a Dog? The Haunting Legend of the Chhalava
• A matemática e a Gentileza

  Uma frase, uma via, um pedestre, seu cachorro, alguns carros e... um cálculo.

• Shah Abbas II insulting Aurangzeb
• O dote não brilha sozinho

  O dote não brilha sozinho. Apaga, como lâmpada esquecida. E acende de novo, só quando alguém se lembra de apertar o interruptor — ou quando quem a possui decide, enfim, que a escuridão da sala já dura tempo demais.

• O teste da água

  E o homem? O homem não é fechado em si. Ele é jogado na água do tempo todos os dias. A manhã fria o dissolve um pouco...

• Areia Congelada

  Li, em algum prefácio, que a crônica nasce quando a gente não tem o que escrever...

• The Rise of Geography During the Age of Exploration

  The Rise of Geography During the Age of Exploration

• The Secrets of the Egyptian Pyramids

  The Mystery of the Egyptian Pyramids

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• RUPRAM BARUAH

  The 1942 Behali movement was a prominent local chapter of the Quit India Movement in Assam, driven by "Mrityu Bahini" (Death Squads) and "Shanti Sena" (Peace Corps). On September 20, 1942, locals marched on the Behali Police Station in the Biswanath district, where freedom fighter Tileswari Mahanta was instrumental in hoisting the national flag.The 1942 Context & The Behali IncidentThe Call: Following Mahatma Gandhi’s "Do or Die" call in Bombay, the Darrang District Congress Committee organized

• Was Britain's real achievement breaking the ceiling that capped every life before it?

  For nearly the whole of human history, the standard of living did not move. A peasant in Roman Gaul, a peasant in medieval England, and a peasant under the early Stuarts lived at roughly the same material level, because any surplus a society produced was eaten by the mouths it then fed. Good harvests bought more babies, not better lives, and population climbed back to the edge of hunger. Economists call this the Malthusian trap, and it held without exception. Then, in a damp corner of England…

• Was Italy's greatest cultural hour also a political catastrophe?

  We carry an unexamined assumption that culture follows power, that the great age of an art is the great age of its army. Renaissance Italy refutes it cleanly. Between roughly the fourteenth century and the sixteenth, the peninsula produced linear perspective, humanism, the recovered ancients, the secular gaze, and a recognizably modern idea of the individual person. It also failed, completely and humiliatingly, at the one task we usually call the test of a civilization. It could not unite,…

• Is Canada better off for having skipped its revolution?

  Most nations remember a morning they would die to defend: a Bastille, a Boston, a shot that started everything. Canada has no such morning, and that is the point most easily missed about it. On 1 July 1867 the British North America Act took effect and the Dominion of Canada existed. No declaration was read to a crowd, no army had to be beaten, no king was overthrown. A handful of colonial politicians, John A. Macdonald among them, had argued their way through a series of conferences and…

• Is the United States the rare country built on an argument?

  Most nations are facts before they are ideas. France was French, with its language and its soil and its dead, long before anyone wrote down what France was for. The American Founding ran the other way. In 1776 there was no American people in the old sense, no shared ancestry, no national church, no thousand-year memory, only a set of colonies that had been quarreling with London and, increasingly, among themselves. What held them was a written argument: that governments exist to secure rights,…

• Is there any conservative ideology left to recognize in the Republican party?

  I used to think I understood what I was part of. Not in a blind, devotional way, but in the sense that there was a rough consistency to it. Free markets, free trade, small government. Respect for institutions, personal responsibility, suspicion of concentrated power, especially when it showed up in Washington. Remember that? You didn’t have to agree with every position, but you could at least recognize the shape of the ideology.