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• Social Networking: Digital World-Cities of the WWW?

  By Duty and Honor on June 4, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Last year, while trying to research the concept of the Shopping Citadel and its related variants, I began to come across a number of references to the 1960s Counterculture, Silicon Valley, and all the research that later went into the… Read More ›

• Update (4 June 2023)

  By Duty and Honor on June 4, 2023 • ( 0 )

  I recently did a bit of browsing in search of information on the early Internet from articles and books to research papers and archived Blog posts. From what I could gather, that sentimental fondness of the early Internet may not… Read More ›

• Some Folklore Surrounding Bees

  By Duty and Honor on June 3, 2023 • ( 0 )

  The humble honey bee has always enjoyed a close, symbiotic relationship with humanity. Brittany possesses a rich tradition of beliefs and superstitions surrounding bees and beekeeping. Some Folklore Surrounding Bees

• They are exterminating Madeirans in their own land and exchanging them for the rich

  By Duty and Honor on June 3, 2023 • ( 0 )

  40% of properties sold in Madeira in 2022 were sold to foreigners.  When a precedent is set for selling Portuguese nationality to foreigners, covered up with the purchase of a house for an exorbitant price, it is simply an attempt… Read More ›

• Feminist Economics for All – Open Americas

  By Duty and Honor on June 1, 2023 • ( 0 )

  It may seem obvious to a layperson that failing to support an economy’s labor force must come at a cost. Yet conventional economic models render nearly invisible – or simply wave aside – a dimension of inequality that pervades economic policymaking… Read More ›

• Economics, Coins, and Barter: Medieval Money Matters | Cat Rotator’s Quarterly

  By Duty and Honor on June 1, 2023 • ( 0 )

  We live in a money economy, more or less. That’s pretty new for most people. Even in the 1600s, a lot of business was done by barter. However, as Adam Smith pointed out in 1776, it’s hard to make change… Read More ›

• “Could Soviet women be regular housewives?”

  By Duty and Honor on May 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

  Note: Several months ago, I wrote about Soviet Woman on ARPLAN. I just did not expect to learn that the Russian culture and lifestyle publication Russia Beyond featured an article on the same subject yesterday. Women in the Soviet Union… Read More ›

• “Inside the 140-Year-Old Distillery of Berlin’s Prussian Spirits Manufaktur” (2015)

  By Duty and Honor on May 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

• On Digital Taxation Regimes (Pt. II of II)

  By Duty and Honor on May 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in Part I, I devoted a detailed discussion about the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) from the purviews of Production for Profit and Production for Utility. Here, I will be delving into the same legislation in the context of… Read More ›

• Update (31 May 2023)

  By Duty and Honor on May 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  I updated the Circle of Friends section and wrote a lengthy post that is scheduled to go live in the next thirty minutes after this post. The post in question is based on my observations regarding the ongoing development of… Read More ›