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Another free trial
Read more: Another free trialWhether the question is about North Korean children or Netflix free offers, the answer is half-truth. Netflix is sorry that I left. As a thank you, it wants to offer a new free trial. But I never joined so I never left. I don’t deserve thanks, let alone a reward.…
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Rotation
Read more: RotationHistory loves recurrence. History is not a pilgrim’s progress. It’s a Ferris wheel with gondolas that rotate endlessly. It does not have a beginning or an end, as some suggest. It does have recurring themes that rarely stray far from basic human obsessions, including the ferocious wish for land, power…
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War games
Read more: War gamesHeinous acts once fostered declarations of war, but that was before the advent of casualty arithmetic. Postmodernism in the context of global conflict recently found a home in a New York Times dispatch about the possibility of the United States extending air strikes from Iraq to Syria to keep caliphate-minded ISIS, the…
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August
Read more: AugustThe boardwalk was a happy place, unless you read the headlines. In 1968, I spent two summer weeks in August at a boardwalk hotel on the Delaware coast with my father. I remember the scrambled eggs, the jetties that looked like crocodiles, and my father’s glum mood, which didn’t abate…
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Motherland
Read more: MotherlandThe boardwalk was a happy place, unless you read the headlines. Some contemporary historians have used the 100th anniversary of World War I as an opportunity to compare the volatile tone of evolving events in Ukraine to those that unfolded before the 1914 Guns of August. The appropriateness of the…
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Kid Napoleon
Read more: Kid NapoleonNapoleon in high form: Epaulette is a French word that means “little shoulder” (diminutive from épaule, which means “shoulder”). The 19th-century wore epaulettes. They hung from the shoulders of elite military officers like frilly braids. Elevator boys in fashionable European hotels or ocean liners had them attached to make it…
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