Tag Archives: European History

This Day In History: November 11, 1918, 1919, 1954, 1991

Posted on November 11, 2011 by nathanalbright

If you are an American, today is Veteran’s Day.  If you are a European, today is Armistice Day, the celebration of the truce that ended an immensely destructive war, a strangely but fittingly inconclusive end to an inconclusive war.  How … Continue reading →

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A Pox On Both Of Your Houses

Posted on June 22, 2011 by nathanalbright

It is frustrating for me when I hear those people who should be viewing politics from the perspective of God’s laws instead have a faulty dualistic view that comes straight from post-Enlightenment Europe and expresses the “Satan’s House Divided” view … Continue reading →

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Visegrad: An Alternative Prophetic Fulfillment

Posted on May 18, 2011 by nathanalbright

Though many people would little suspect it, I have a great personal interest in prophecy, little suspected because I have spent far too many years of my life dealing with people whose continual half-baked speculations on end-time prophecy were designed … Continue reading →

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Sagecraft

Posted on April 2, 2011 by nathanalbright

A few years ago I wrote several parts of a five-part play [1] called Sagecraft.  In the play, a party of six young people from a city called Delphi, each with their own unique personalities and backgrounds (explored in the … Continue reading →

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Lip Service

Posted on March 22, 2011 by nathanalbright

Monopolies really bug me.  Over the past few years, it has become clear that in a lot of very important industries there is a decreasing number of competitors.  Businessmen pay a lot of lip service to the concept of competition … Continue reading →

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The Juggler’s Dilemma

Posted on March 16, 2011 by nathanalbright

I have never taken up juggling as a hobby, because I don’t feel I have great coordination and because I tend to focus too much on one ball at a time rather than trying to get the whole system of … Continue reading →

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Mapping The History of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Posted on March 10, 2011 by nathanalbright

A fascinating map of the history of science fiction reveals a complicated history, as well as a sharp line between the genres of fantasy and science fiction [1].  Though the map is not complete (as if it could be!) it … Continue reading →

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A Monument Long Overdue

Posted on March 1, 2011 by nathanalbright

Frank Buckles died this weekend at the age of 110.  He was the last known surviving United States veteran of World War I, and a fellow with a compelling life history [1].  One of his goals was to see a … Continue reading →

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The Termites of History

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

One of the more odd and intriguing elements of history is when the same kind of events simultaneously occur in many places.  For example, in 1848, the “year of Revolutions,” there was an Irish potato famine that caused hundreds of … Continue reading →

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On The Formation of Class Identity

Posted on February 23, 2011 by nathanalbright

As the name of this blog is Edge Induced Cohesion and the formation of identity through crisis and conflict is an obvious subject of interest to this blog [1] [2] [3].  Today I would like to talk about the very … Continue reading →

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