Substack: Eclectic Collections of Demonstrators

Beware of assuming good will. Not everyone wants the best.

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 When Elena Lang went missing, Sebastian Wolff couldn't work out what all the fuss was about.

- From Evil in High Places by Rory Clements

On My List

 

Living a Better Life

Nicholas Bate reveals his favorite book in the Companion series.

It is mine as well.

Jordan Peterson and Tony Robbins

 

When Jon Stewart Resisted the Party Line

 

The Family Living on Pop Tarts Is More Fun

 

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 On 2 August 216 BC the Carthaginian General Hannibal won one of the most complete battlefield victories in history. Outnumbered nearly two to one, his heterogenous army of Africans, Spaniards and Celts not merely defeated, but virtually destroyed the Roman army opposing them. By the end of the day, nearly 50,000 Roman and Allied soldiers lay dead or were dying in an area of a few square kilometres, whilst between ten and twenty thousand more were prisoners. Less than 20% of one of the largest armies ever fielded by the Roman State survived to reform over the next few weeks. Cannae became the yardstick by which the Romans measured later catastrophes, but only one or two defeats in their history were ever judged to have been as bad. The scale of the losses at Cannae was unrivalled until the industrialized slaughter of the First World War.

- From Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory by Adrian Goldsworthy

Virtually Zero Chance

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Apr 23, 2020

Virus researchers — who are familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted — say there is virtually zero chance that the novel coronavirus was released as result of a lab accident, despite misinformation being circulated. https://trib.al/BqdOxwm

Hmm

The first names of the authors of Amazon's "First Read" books for July:

Anna, Lindsay, Katie, Leslie, Carissa, Callie, Elba, Kristin, Faith, Lucinda, Melinda, and Brittney.

There is a bonus "short read" by Peter.