Ten days after the bloody battle of woerth most of the bodies are finally buried but the locals are still cleaning up. twitter.com/Krieg7071/stat…
1886-1888 Aime Morot produced a series of astonishing paintings commemorating Franco-Prussian war. He appears to have had support of General Staff to study cavalry movement.
Genius material on a 1949, British vision of a spacesuit! twitter.com/OptimoPrincipi…
This is some serious flying! twitter.com/eb4ewl/status/…
1870-2020: Kudos to @NewLeftReview for publishing, in this anniversary year of Franco-Prussian war, a useful reminder by @wstreeckblog that Frederick Engels was an innovative materialist
Aug 16 1870 Mars-La-Tour battle: Last major cavalry clashes of West European military history. Bismarck believes both his sons had been killed in fighting. In
@daniel_dsj2110 @JacksonYale Ill post when my redesigned website goes up next week.
@jesushjones1 Had virtually no control over this. Had more to do with Auftragstaktik.
In general, in Franco-Prussian war Germans enjoyed numerical superiority, thanks to rapid mobilization. But, this not enough to explain decisive v. attritional victory. At key
August 16 1870: Having marched furiously to the West to prevent French retreat out of Metz, at Mars-La-Tour the Prussian army has its David v.
Time’s Monster. How History Makes History What a GREAT title for @PriyaSatia forthcoming on history and the British Empire. @Harvard_Press hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… https://t.co/KiuBaxxIMn
August 16 1870 was perhaps last day of classic cavalry action in WEST European history. In "death ride" Bredow's cavalry brigade sacrificed to shore up
RT @DuncanWeldon: Using the entirely unrepresentative sample of “people I was at school with”. The level of anger over the A-level stuff fr…
History of the Present: interesting by @daniel_dsj2110 on history’s answer to the present crisis. On that @JacksonYale course that D inherited (after Snyder?), I had
RT @tomstreithorst: One of the most interesting episodes described in @michaelxpettis and @M_C_Klein Trade Wars are Class Wars is the effec…
RT @JuddLegum: Here's the deal on the United States Military: it's just a bad business! Poorly run. Loses trillions. If it were any other b…
Piłsudski converses with General Edward Śmigły-Rydz during counter attack that will drive Red Army out of Poland August/September 1920. Zaloga, Steven J.. Warsaw 1920 (Campaign)
“Miracle on the Vistula”: Having sucked Soviets to West in fierce fighting around Warsaw, early in am 16 August 1920 Pilsudski unleashes 50,000 strong two-pronged
2020: The year where Tesla overtook market cap 1st of VW and then Toyota. thedailyshot.com/2020/08/14/ame… https://t.co/rG4VR4bLoH
RT @Harvard_Press: This coming Monday, August 17 at 7pm EST, join historians @ruthbenghiat and Victoria de Grazia as they discuss The Perfe…
Global tech and healthcare stocks have diverged from the rest of the market. @bcaresearch via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/08/14/ame… https://t.co/B2Yhrxs1Is
@FreedomGeoFin @LynAldenContact Yeah I have @LynAldenContact in my dedicated COVID feed. Great stuff.
What made the Miracle on the Vistula possible was tying down Red Army to North of Warsaw, exposing them to Pilsudski’s counterattack from South Eastern
29 June 2018 fastest ever lap on Nürburgring Nordschleife: Extraordinary to watch. Top speed. 369 km/h. Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo. At any prior moment in
This is a really lucid read on the Treasury market. Highly recommended especially for non-specialists and I mean that as a compliment. Wonderful finance writing
“Now when we look at Stevenage ….” Surreal automatic writing? No: the concrete realization of the universal ideal of the uninterrupted flow of people, bicycles
RT @MobyDickatSea: Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood
Mr Xi is not simply inflating state at expense of private sector. Rather, he is presiding over what he hopes will be a more muscular
Given all the talk right now about the future of the $, some historical perspective is useful. This is indexed to Aug 2011 post-crisis low
The collapse in real yields since early 2020 is driven by implosion in Treasury yields NOT rise in inflation expectation. @meremortenlund via @SoberLook https://t.co/bByTNDTMjc
The track of Fed fund futures: spring of 2019 break in face of trade wars is clearly visible. Followed by collapse in February and collapse
Spending cuts by state and local governments grappling with the coronavirus pandemic pose a headwind to the U.S. economic recovery wsj.com/articles/coron… https://t.co/VUMZjfOtVW
RT @CyrilPedia: "But being a custodian of a dead religion still means you have a job." Great interview with @adam_tooze https://t.co/1LF…
Boosted by higher gold prices, Russia’s F/X and gold reserves exceeded $600 billion for the first time. Since 2008 this reserve has been foundation of
1974 pedal power documentary …. It will be chiefly due to the shortage of oil … the bicycle will still be going when the luxurious
Nearly 400 of the 3,900 companies listed on stock exchanges in mainland China paid homage to the Communist Party and Xi Jinping thought in their
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