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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; History</title>
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		<title>From the NYRB: How Muslims Made Europe</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/399</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/399#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Appiah&#8217;s NYRB article:
How Muslims Made Europe - The New York Review of Books
[...]
Later Christian historians assigned to the Battle of Poitiers an epochal significance. Gibbon remarked that if the Moors had covered again the distance they had traveled from Gibraltar, they could have reached Poland or the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps, he thought, if &#8216;Abd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWII: the backstory on the Soviet pact with Hitler</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/384</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/384#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stalin &#8216;planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact&#8217; - Telegraph
Papers which were kept secret for almost 70 years show that the Soviet Union proposed sending a powerful military force in an effort to entice Britain and France into an anti-Nazi alliance.
Such an agreement could have changed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN due influence</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without any hint of irony or humour, The Guardian worries that Western influence within the United Nations is waning &#8212; worrisome because it wrecks &#8220;efforts to entrench human rights, liberties and multilateralism&#8221;.
Drop in influence at UN wrecks western attempts to push human rights agenda
The west&#8217;s efforts to use the United Nations to promote its values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuban Missile Crisis&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/322</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/322#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that much of what we think we know about one of the most studied episodes in modern history is either inaccurate or incomplete. Even more alarming, much of what Kennedy thought he knew about Soviet actions and motivations rested on flawed intelligence reports.
Far from being an example of &#8220;matchlessly calibrated&#8221; diplomacy - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Alexander Gray on James Clyburn</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/318</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/318#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy Now! &#124; Race, Politics, Dr. King and the Primaries in South Carolina
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking right now to Kevin Alexander Gray in Columbia, South Carolina. The Republican primary is January 19th. The Democratic primary January 26th. Talk about your congressman, James Clyburn. He is the only African American congressman from South Carolina, one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The history of the US in Iran</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/303</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/303#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<title>History vs Hope</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/299</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/299#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats finally have their &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; moment and boy is it good to get all that guilt off your back! In a piece that is embarrassing for not just the lack of content but also the adolescent gushing, Andrew Rosenthal writes in the New York Times:
Michelle, Maria, Caroline and Oprah on the Hustings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC &#124; US Mexicans haunted by repatriation</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/255</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/255#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard and read about the Japanese internment during WW2, but this I had not previously known:
BBC &#124; US Mexicans haunted by repatriation
[...]
As the depression deepened, state and local governments passed laws restricting employment to native-born or naturalised citizens.
The Federal Government required all firms supplying it with goods and services to hire only US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kremlin Minutes at Spiegel</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/241</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/241#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spiegel Online has a series of Kremlin Minutes posted on their web site, such as this one: The Kremlin Minutes: &#8220;We Should Demolish the Wall Ourselves&#8221;.
Visit Spiegel Online for more. I am sure we won&#8217;t see much of this in US press since as Spiegel points out (last sentence):
In the fall of 1990, as Germany [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obfuscations and Explanations</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/235</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/235#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Scientism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[via BoingBoing]
The Dead Sea Scrolls it seems contain specifications for construction of latrines:
The Seattle Times: Nation &#38; World: Toilet evidence links Dead Sea Scrolls to sect
[...]
The Essenes are one of the few ancient groups whose toiletry practices were documented. The first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that members of the group normally went outside the [...]]]></description>
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