A Salute to the Wheel
Always cited as the hallmark of man’s innovation, here is the real story behind the wheel – from its origins to its reinvention
Entries Tagged as 'History'
The wheel in history
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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Paine
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments
The Gain from Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine, who died 200 years ago, inspired and witnessed the revolutions that gave birth to the United States and destroyed the French monarchy. A genuinely global figure, he anticipated modern ideas on human rights, atheism and rationalism. David Nash looks at his enduring impact.
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Caesar’s fate
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Spinning Caesar’s murder
Putting the ideology – and the people – back into our understanding of Roman political lifeMary Beard
The murder of Julius Caesar was a messy business.
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Domestication of the horse
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments
From Science News
Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2009) — Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process of their domestication is not well understood.
In a new study [...]
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Early democracy
November 9th, 2008 · No Comments
from Discover
Ancient Greece was not the birthplace of democracy. Two thousand years earlier in the kingdom of Ebla, located in what is now Syria, kings were elected for seven-year terms.
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1848: End Of Eonic Sequence?
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
1848: End Of Eonic Sequence?
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New files at eonic-effect.net
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments
New files at eonic-effect.net, listed on:
Eonix Papers static files
Selection from WHEE on Kant
September 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, on Kant and the philosophy of history, Kant’s Question, Teleology, And Asocial Sociability
Kant’s Challenge, and the Challenge resolved
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Kant’s Challenge, the blog, has two selections form World History And The Eonic Effect, on the resolution seen in the eonic effect of Kant’s question, in his essay on history:
Kant’s Challenge
The Challenge Resolved And A Kant Fix
New Ages, the confusion, an archive file
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
This is a passage form the second edition, archived here, to be linked from The Gurdjeff Con blog, where the confusion of ‘New Ages’ is being discussed.
The forms of historicism include the myths of eons and epochs. Our model leads us through this terrain, yet gives us a handle on the mythological confusions. We [...]
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Selection, ‘Kant’s Challenge’, from WHEE
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect, Kant’s Challenge
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The ’smash’ of civilizations
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Looking Back at Five Years of Bush’s Wreckage in Iraq
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted August 26, 2008.
Bush’s supporters see the global war on terrorism as a “clash of civilizations” — yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.
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Democracy and the ‘discrete freedom sequence’
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
One of the central themes of World History And The Eonic Effect is the study of the emergence of democracy in the eonic sequence, with the resulting suspense over the fate of this democratic stream. The article cited has the proper tone of suspense: How America’s empire will fall
In the year 432 B.C., Athenian statesman [...]
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Kant’s Challenge blog starts: Rediscovering transcendental idealism
August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
The new blog, Kant’s Challenge, is starting up with a post: Rediscovering transcendental idealism
Did the Phoenicians discover America? ….1421 and all that
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Gavin Menzies: mad as a snake – or a visionary?
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/08/2008
His first book claimed that the Chinese discovered America. Now, in a controversial sequel, Gavin Menzies says they also sparked the Renaissance
The author of 1421 is at it again. As to whether the Chinese discovered America, one could remain open, save [...]
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Herodotus
August 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Time for this blog, so far specialized around ‘Site News’ to branch out into history, evolution and the eonic effect. Here, to begin, is an interesting book on the father of history, Herodotus.
Students of the eonic effect will note that Herodotus, and the emergence of ‘history’, is correlated with the eonic effect itself, Herodotus appearing [...]
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Two new blogbook essay series
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
One Endless Argument: Surviving The Darwin Debate
The Oedipus Paradox: The Legacy Of Social Darwinism
New essay series, The Old Testament: An Eonic Riddle
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Just uploaded a new ‘blog booklet’ series of essays, The Old Testament: An Eonic Riddle.
Hope that helps!
Tags: Evolution · History · Site News
The Evolution Controversy And The Eonic Effect
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
A new essay linked to the opening paragraph is now online: The Evolution Controversy And The Eonic Effect
Tags: Evolution · History · Site News
new blogbook series!
June 7th, 2008 · No Comments
1848+: Theory, Ideology, and Revolution
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