how languages in western eurasia may have evolved:
article in science
article in scroll.in
video
this is one of the hypothesis.
the leading theory being the kurgan hypothesis.
via wikimedia commons
evolution of languages
Category Archives: history
banyeo at dusk
march 27
photo essay on masks:
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-masks-we-wear/394121/
to read:
via wikipedia
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer (1989)
four different migrations from england that shaped america:
+puritans to new england
+southern english to virginia
+quakers to the delaware
+anglo-scottish bordeland inhabitants to the american backgrountry and appalachia.
white death in the white war
alpini in the italian front. 1915. from the Bibliothèque nationale de France via wikimedia commons
preserved bodies of wwi soldiers appear as glaciers retreat in the austrian and italian alps.
wwi battles between the italian alpini, and the austrian kaiserschützen (imperial infantry) in trentino and southern tyrol.
use of ice-trenches, avalanche warfare with mortars.
bodies and artifacts are emerging in the presana glacier.
book: the white war. life and death on the italian front, 1915-1919 (2008) by mark thompson
peio area where some of the battles were fought.
the highest front lines in history. 12,000 ft.
motherboard article global warming is thawing out the frozen corpses of a forgotten wwi battle
italian front wikipedia article
trento, capital of the autonomous province of trentino.
marmolada 3,343 m /10,968 ft. highest mountain in the dolomites
see gardena pass
war memorial of korea
war memorial of korea. yongsan, seoul.
anti-aircraft guns. 
galleries with names carved on black marble.
casualties of the korean war.
from south carolina
the memorial and the dragon hill neighborhood.
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north korean high ranking official publicly executed by anti-aircraft gun shot. may 2013.
Foreign Policy: A Story of Paranoia and Gore: Why North Korea Uses Such Brutal Execution Methods
North Korean Famine (Arduous March) 1994-1998.
seodaemun prison camp
seodaemun prison camp
built in the early 1900s to hold korean nationalists during the japanese occupation of korea. after wwii, the south korean government used the prison until it was shut down in the 1980s. reopened as a museum in the 90s.
high school romance at the prison.
a boy reads a pokemon book, a character created by japanese video game designer satoshi tajiri, in front of a wall of koreans held at the camp during the occupation.
interrogation scenes.
bamboo under the nails torture.
solitary.
angry guard.
an elementary school kid on a field trip chokes a guard mannequin in one the torture chambers.
the former prison lies west of dongnimmun station on the seoul subway line 3.
korea, china, manchuria and the pacific under japanese occupation.
via wikimedia commons.
coronado sets out to gimhae
we set out west in the early afternoon. drove through mandeok tunnel and over the nakdong gang. arrived around four in gimhae, ancient capital of the gaya kingdom. my new scooter, coronado, choked up climbing a hill. it refused to restart. carburetor problems. all scooter shops were closed. we coasted on coronado down until the street leveled off. we pushed it for about a kilometer, passing old scrap metal dealers and sleepy streets. parked it under inje university’s light rail transit station next to two other dead scooters. we shall return for you.
coronado sets out to the north by frederic remington via wikipedia
frederic remington painter, sculptor, writer, illustrator.
harry truman’s rebuilding of the white house article in the new york times.
book to get:
monsters, communists, kidnappings, the koreas
podcast, movies and books.
kidnapped by n. korea to make films: act one of this american life 556: same bed, different dreams.
film director shin sang-ok 신상옥 and wive, ex-wife and re-wife, actor choi eun-hee 최은희
“pulgasari” japanese poster via wikipedia.
full movie with subtitles
pulgasari. 1985. north korea. godzilla-type film directed by mr. shin.
capitalist/feudal lord-crushing proletarian monsta.
mother and a guest. south korea. 1961. starring mrs. choi.
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by paul fischer
on amazon kindle
shin’s and choi’s memoir: either called kingdom of kim or i am a movie or Chogugŭn Chŏhanŭl Chŏmŏlli (My Motherland is Faraway) published in 1988/2001.
take a look at on the art of cinema (published in 1973) by the late kim jong-il.
waves, codebreakers, typography, the great war
book
The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn
photography
The Great War from The Atlantic
Ray Collins’ Seascapes
misc.
Anatomy of Type (typography)
the indianapolis speech
quint’s indianapolis monologue. robert shaw.
set of jaws
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at Pearl Harbor, circa 1937 | via wikipedia
al andalus, granada y 1492
Lamento De Boabdil
Gaspar Cassadó – Integral Per Violoncel i Piano
Muhammad XII of Granada (Boabdil)
Les_Adieux du roi Boabdil a Grenade by Alfred Dehodencq (circa 1860) Musee d’Orsay.
Emirate of Cordoba
“…10th century cordoba was the most populous city in the world.”
from Cordoba, Andalusia wikipedia entry.
foreign policy article. controversy over the mosque-cathedral of cordoba.
Al-Andalus
circa 1000 AD | via wikipedia
The Capitulation of Granada. Boabdil confronts Ferdinand and Isabella. Artist: Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz. 1882. via wikipedia