Tezcatlipoca
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Tezcatlipoca Steps
Sep 23, 2017 1:31 AM (9 years ago)

Pirate Radio of Vietnam

(Dave Rabbit during his tour of Vietnam)  Radio First Termer, was an American pirate radio station/program for US soldiers during the Vietnam War. It's host and operator, Dave Rabbit ran it completely illicitly with stolen equipment from a brothel…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Sep 14, 2017 10:54 PM (9 years ago)

The Dangerous Orbs that Wander the Heavens

There must be 400 or so links in my personal Wikipedia/Interesting Reading bookmarks folder (and so at least that many escalator rides we have yet to take).  But while I have considered all of these interesting enough to save and return to, but…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Sep 13, 2017 10:07 PM (9 years ago)

Mysterious Meetings of The East and West in the Ancient World

(Ptolemy's 1st projection, listing China as Serica or land of silk in northeast Asia)  Often we in the modern world, don’t give our ancient world quite enough credit.  We too often think of it as a small and wholly superstitious place, full of…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Sep 8, 2017 6:08 PM (9 years ago)

Pygmies of the Ancient World

In Weilue 魏略 (or The Peoples of the West), the same Chinese text from ~250 AD that describes what the Chinese knew about the contemporary Roman Empire (more on this in one of the next escalator rides) there is a curious description of a race of…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Sep 3, 2017 5:23 AM (9 years ago)

Giants of the Ancient World

(mythological telling of the capture of a giant in the Codex Ríos) Did giants ever roam the Earth? The Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés came to believe so. In 1518, after a tense initial meeting with Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Aug 28, 2017 7:39 PM (9 years ago)

Commodore Perry and the Black Ships "Open" a Closed Japan

In 1853 Commodore Perry set sail from the United States with a fleet of black ships to  “open” the isolationist Japan to trade (quite against their wishes).  It is an absolutely batshit moment in history. I can't stress enough how fascinating the di
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Aug 26, 2017 12:42 AM (9 years ago)

Chinese Aluminium Shenanigans

Just imagine the following: You have just crashed your McLaren in a rally in the foreign Italian countryside. You sit in the newly minted multimillion dollar piece of modern art bleeding and consider your life choices. "Should I have stayed in…
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Tezcatlipoca Everything
Aug 21, 2017 10:57 PM (9 years ago)

The Pirahã and Much Ado About Snakes

There is a tribe in the Amazon called the Pirahã that still live in relative isolation today. There are at least 200 of them out there in the rainforest.  The Pirahã have been invaded by the modern world, but when their isolation was first…
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