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back before DuckDuckGo, this was called a <googlewhackblat>

I found a word with exactly one Google result! And its in an ancient language (Latin for maker of <thoraces>)

New Post: "So you all meet in a tavern" ... Some Thoughts on 'Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day' https://bookandsword.com/2019/11/09/some-thoughts-on-unconventional-warfare-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day/ #bookReview #militaryHistory #historodons #historians

The first person to write the words <pourpoint> and <gambeson> "quilted coat" seems to have been Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (d. 1105 in Troyes) better known as RASHI #medieval #tailoring #medievalJudaism #philology

People earning money on #patreon are 140,000 strong. That is like two Achaemenid armies only with less spears and bows and more paintbrushes and microphones!

Between applications, I am re-reading https://bookandsword.com/2019/11/01/i-am-re-reading/ #pedagogy #dangersOfSurveillance

How Long are the Spears of the Warriors at Susa? https://bookandsword.com/2019/10/26/how-long-are-the-spears-of-the-warriors-at-susa/ #ancient #achaemenid #iran

And the mandatory (short) blog post explaining what we were working on: https://bookandsword.com/2019/10/25/an-echo-of-an-aramaic-story-in-five-greek-texts/

Woohoo, an article came out in the middle of academic jobhunting season! Jack W.G. Schropp and Sean Manning, “‘Too Many for an Embassy, Too Few for an Army’: On The Origin and Scope of a Tigranic Dictum.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 212 (2019) pp. 83–88 #ancient #assyriolgy #plutarch #assurbanipal #philology

In my home city, the party with 31% of the vote got one seat, the party with 29% of the vote got three seats, and the other 40% of the burgers got MPs they never asked for ... and this happens every election under First Past the Post with more than two parties #canpol

A non-partisan take on why Canadians need to do more than attend an all-candidates' meeting and put out a lawn sign every four years, with shoutout to the Samara Centre for Democracy https://bookandsword.com/2019/10/19/democracies-ancient-and-modern/

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous in #psychology and #quantitativeSocialScience Archival research by Thibault Le Texier has revealed that the guards were told what results the experimenters wanted to see and only paid on successful completion http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0000401 and http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-241-thibault-le-texier-on-debunking-the-stanford-prison-e.html

Mandatory citation to Graphtreon https://graphtreon.com/patreon-stats (the fee controversy was in December 2017) Monthly payouts (green bars) have been roughly static for a year

#patreon seems to be doing A/B testing on their signup/non-patrons page. After reading their email about it, it still seems like they have no ideas for what to do with all that money they borrowed even though they were doing just fine as a Maciej Ceglowski style 'few tens of millions of revenue a year, honest business model, steady but not explosive growth' company #stateOfTheWeb

New Post: Mountain Passes Ancient and Modern https://bookandsword.com/2019/10/12/new-article-mountain-passes-ancient-and-modern/ #ancient #geography #turkey #logistics

šumma awīlum awāt ṭuppi inbî u šulmam tuppi ul išṭur u ṭupşar ul uwattâ râb bīt ṭuppi "if a citizen cites the words of a tablet but does not write its name and a scribe cannot find it looking again and again the chief librarian shall ..." #academicCurses not actually #codexHammurabi #akkadian