December 2011
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Brain Picking’s Top 11 History Books of the Year |... →
parn123:
Poggio Bracciolini is the most important man you’ve never heard of.
One cold winter night in 1417, the clean-shaven, slender young man pulled a manuscript off a dusty library shelf and could barely believe his eyes. In his hands was a thousand-year-old text that changed the course…
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Making Movies With Kim Jong Il
mentalflossr:
Kim Jong Il has died. Here’s a story about the time he kidnapped a South Korean director to infuse some life into North Korean cinema.
Continue Reading: Kim Jong Il, the Director He Kidnapped, and the Awful Godzilla Film They Made Together
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Newsweek: "We Cannot Hide Important News" →
Yes, the Times needed to run this image. News has become too sanitized in the West. Bad things happen in the world. People need to understand the reality of what is happening in places like Afghanistan. The public has a right to demand the truth. The truth does not include hiding important news.
newsweek:
Did you see the image that ran on the front-page of the Los Angeles Times (and other...
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