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Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War

  • Culture,
  • Politics
January 9, 2023January 9, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…Vienna and his main expertise is in 20th Century Eastern Europe. He claims to speak five European languages and read ten. He gave lectures in Ukrainian [not exactly a lingua…

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Guest Post: “An Expanded Vision of ‘Western Heritage’: Why It Matters for Education”

  • Culture
September 3, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: David Green Ahmanson

…substrate, indicating coexistence of the languages long before Hurro-Urartian became extinct. I personally suspect that the Armenians are descended from the traders on the Transcaucasian route between the Steppes and…

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The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time 

  • Culture
May 22, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…lines, transcended the divisive nature of ethnic boundaries, and even provided a basis for compatible interaction between groups speaking different languages. Gerontocracy was in fact a unifying characteristic of sub-Saharan…

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Some Thoughts About ‘Identities’

  • Culture,
  • Religion
February 22, 2020May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…Africa, for example, or Papua, New Guinea, with its 750 languages. And all too often, the majority ethnicity within a political nation-state starts to identify itself specifically with that state;…

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Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama

  • Politics
January 13, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…[of my ‘five kingdoms’, only two—the family and manners/customs/languages—are not dominated by Organizations]. I understand that an absolute ‘Rule of Law and not of humans’ [to phrase it in a…

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Merry Christmas [All Three of Them]

  • Culture,
  • Religion
December 23, 2019December 23, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…arms race. Some of you may not know what a ‘Potlatch’ is. The word comes from one of the Pacific Northwest Indian languages. We are informed that “A potlatch involves…

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A Croatia Travelogue

  • Miscellaneous
September 27, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…a place where the Glagolitic alphabet, the one that Cyril and Methodius actually did invent for the Slavic languages, was used. The alphabet called ‘Cyrillic’ was not invented by them…

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Why We Need Regionalism

  • Culture
May 9, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…and we should also embrace you. In fact, I fancy putting posters of Jeremiah 29:7 in Spanish [and maybe other languages] all around the areas where they could be understood….

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Which Western Civilization? We’re on our Third One. 

  • Culture,
  • Religion
March 8, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…receded, Christianity began to flourish, including Protestantism, Catholicism, and especially the new form of Christianity called Pentecostalism, which had originated in 1906. Many languages, not already written, were translated into…

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What Umlaut Really Is, And How English Has It

  • Miscellaneous
October 17, 2018May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Most people think an umlaut is the two dots over a letter that you often see in German and some other languages. A number of Anglophone rock bands have decorated…

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