Category Archives: History
Happy Independence day!
The Star Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry. Where we showed the damn British that we were STILL independent.
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.
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.
Posted in History, Weird Stuff
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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
Posted in History
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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
Posted in Guns, History
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100 years and looking good!
The Texas is 100 years old today. Happy Birthday!
Posted in History
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London Streets, 1903
Lots of horse poop and some dangerously overloaded wagons.
Posted in History
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