Category: History
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1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Cline & Fawkes 2024)
I picked up this book, 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (2024) by E. H. Cline and G. Fawkes, in an airport bookstore because it looked like it might be interesting and different from the type of books I usually read. This is a graphic novel version of 1177 B.C.: The…
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Leap Day, Feb. 29th
Happy leap day! These oddities in our calendar come about from trying to force together a natural year (365.242 days), a natural month (29.53 days, measured by moon phases), and a day (1.00 days). I suspect a week is also tied up here as a way to divide a lunar month into four equal parts…
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Serpent Spear-Onions
(This was first posted on February 15, 2023. I am moving it here to port some old posts to the new website.) We are planning to move later this year, and I am really hoping to be able to have a garden again. I grew up gardening, but we haven’t had one in decades because…