Victims of communism day
Today is May 1st, the day we pause and remember the hundreds of millions of people killed by communism. Kevin has more here. … Continue reading
Category Archives: History
Blogging may be dead…
…but this one isn’t quite yet. In fact, today SnarkyBytes is six years old. That’s positively ancient in Internet years.
Geological Time Scale vs Human Pollution
I started to leave this as a comment over at Borepatch’s place but it just kept growing and growing so I made it a post. I was at the Natural Science Museum today, and I relearned a few things that … Continue reading
Linoge’s Graphics Matter chart updated
The 2009 data is in and it looks like, yet again, the more guns = more gun deaths claim is still wrong. Go there and look at the pretty graphs. Thanks, Linoge, for maintaining that data set and doing the … Continue reading
USMC 100 Years in the air
100 years and looking good!
The Texas is 100 years old today. Happy Birthday! … Continue reading
Happy 236th Birthday, Marines!
Semper Fi. … Continue reading
1936 Assembly Line
London Streets, 1903
Lots of horse poop and some dangerously overloaded wagons. … Continue reading
Heavy Metal History
Iced Earth’s Gettysburg 1863 Here’s the view from the Seminary Ridge looking north toward Cemetery Ridge where the Union army waited on July 3rd, 1863. … Continue reading