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In 2006, well before Xi Jinping came to power, Chinese state television ran a 12-part miniseries called The Rise of the Great Powers. It was based on Paul Kennedy’s book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, first published in 1989,...
Pizzaecken mit Pesto all’arrabbiata Pesto all’arrabbiata Zutaten Anmerkung: Die Zutaten reichen für ein kleines Weck-Glas (160 ml). Das Pesto kann man wunderbar im Kühlschrank aufheben. Da hält es sich mindestens 14 Tage. 40 g Mandeln 3...
Welcome to another work in progress Wednesday, the heat here in the UK has slowed all our painting efforts down, but we still have progress being made. This week we start with Kim and some buildings for the game Traitors Gate. This is a...
The VogueKonica Auto S2AristaPan 100Rodinal 1+252026 As part of shooting cameras I don’t use very often to see if they get to stay in my collection, I got out my Konica Auto S2 on a recent Friday afternoon and shot an entire roll of film...
Here's another one by Marukyu Koyamaen! General InfoThis is the Yugen matcha; weirdly, the shop page I ordered from said the name means "still dark", but seeking to confirm it, I found instead: Yūgen (幽玄) is a Japanese term that refers...
Here's how to install MediaWiki on a desktop computer running Debian 13 (Trixie). These instructions are partially based on the Running MediaWiki on Debian or Ubuntu instructions from the MediaWiki Wiki. I've extended these instructions...
Midsummer Day (Quarter Day) Another bad day. Rain all morning and cool. Dot and Jane home today. Finished raking gradd up round courts. Cleared the silage lab out. Went for petrol today. 1 gall. 707 miles on clock.
Italienischer Kartoffelsalat »Lucka« mit geschmorten Tomaten, frischem Rosmarin, Knoblauch, Kapern und Olivenöl »Gibt es in Italien Kartoffelsalat?«, fragte ich den Professor vor ein paar Tagen beim Abendessen. Ich konnte mich vage...
Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps turned the nation's principal highways into continuous journeys on the page,...
For years I’ve been mildly obsessed with this idea, that “history” and “story” are related, they’re siblings if not actually the same creature. And that the relation lies in human cultures that didn’t read, didn’t write, communicated...
One of the easiest ways to make yourself feel bad is to put other people on a pedestal. This happens all the time in tech. We look at this firm or that and assume everyone there must be extraordinary. Maybe that’s true somewhere, but...
This is a rather baffling concept to me, even as I experience it. We all need water to survive. So far, I've succeeded in drinking enough water that I don't keel over and die. (Which is about 1-2 cups a day. Horrific.) But maintaining an...
When I arrived in Shanghai, I kinda knew that one of the things that I had to adapt to was people leaving the city or returning to their countries. Since all my close friends were international students, and obviously not all of them...
The Acrobat is an intriguing unreleased adventure game, developed by Simon Price and Mike Lewis as a 16-bit evolution of the comics-based adventure system previously used for the likes of Red Hawk and Kwah! The preservation of The...
2026 short science fiction novel, eighth in the Murderbot series. Murderbot is visiting a huge space habitat with the goal of rescuing some of its humans.