Tag: History
Collected quotes, 6 of n: Language, translation, identity, empire (1)
A confluence of things, lately: And as a result, then, a lot of simmering thoughts these days on the many
Defining Dictatorship
Last Friday, November 18, the family of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos secreted his body into the Libingan ng mga
Cross-posted from Tumblr: Unit 731
(In response to this post.) I’ve been interested in Japan’s Unit 731 since it came up in a bioethics class
Ancient civilizations and failures of imagination
A couple of months ago, the BBC reported new findings on puquios, which are spiralling holes scattered across Peru’s Nasca region. Through satellite imagery, a team of Italian researchers deduced the purpose of the once-mysterious holes: based on their placement and proximity to settlements, puquios seem to be part of a complex water retrieval and distribution system.
The BBC report carries a standout quote from the lead researcher:
“What is clearly evident today is that the puquio system must have been much more developed than it appears today,” says Lasaponara.
There are a lot of other notable quotes regarding this breakthrough, but that one dredged up a memory from one of the anthropology classes I took in college.