Daily Archives: Apr 20, 2025

Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842–1855 (Richard Mowbray Haywood)

Art & Architecture & Building Charles Haywood - 0
The history of nineteenth-century Russia does not get much attention in the West, and what little it does get usually focuses on people and...
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Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Jim Rasenberger)

American History Charles Haywood - 0
Every so often, some cretin threatens me on X, formerly known as Twitter. These soyboy types tend to lead by saying I appear weak...
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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (Jonathan Phillips)

Book Reviews Charles Haywood - 0
In the classic 1970s Irish Republican Army anthem “My Little Armalite,” the lyrics include “Well the army came to visit me, ’twas in the...
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Live not by lies. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Tell me who your enemy is and I will tell you who you are. — Carl Schmitt
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. — Thomas Paine
Some have the speed, and the right combinations / If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing. — Warren Zevon
Naglfar, the ship of the apocalypse, shifts into a calculable position. — Ernst Jünger
A little less conversation, a little more action, please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me . — Elvis Presley
Timing is all. — Vladimir Lenin