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Modern Chinese history. How's our boy Chiang Kai Shek doing?
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Phrenology is on the first page. It's derided as a pseudo-science.
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Jan 14, 2020 17:25
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Suffragism Schizophrenia
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Jan 14, 2020 17:36
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EorayMel posted:(except for the "modern books ain't got poo poo on the blackest ink and whitest vellum of ye olde tomes Actually, they haven't - really old books aren't yellowed and crusty like you expect because they're not on lovely wood-pulp paper. 
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Randarkman posted:Phrenology is on the first page. It's derided as a pseudo-science. Yeah, it had been out of fashion for 70-80 years by this point.
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Jan 14, 2020 17:41
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vortmax posted:With an illustration even! Thank you!!! That illustration is adorable. 
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Jan 14, 2020 17:42
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It's really weird what they've chosen to illustrate - an exotic animal like a pangolin makes sense because gently caress knows what you'd imagine from just a description, but whay cats?
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Xotl posted:Yeah, it had been out of fashion for 70-80 years by this point. poo poo, I should use wikipedia to find out when things were discovered/debunked before asking for a lookup. I was thinking there might be something pretty cool on climate change/global warming but it apparently wasn't acknowledged until like, the 60s 
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staplegun posted:poo poo, I should use wikipedia to find out when things were discovered/debunked before asking for a lookup. I was thinking there might be something pretty cool on climate change/global warming but it apparently wasn't acknowledged until like, the 60s Well, along those lines there's plate tectonics. This is just around the time it was beginning to get acceptance, so I'd be curious to see what a layman's work says.
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Xotl posted:Well, along those lines there's plate tectonics. This is just around the time it was beginning to get acceptance, so I'd be curious to see what a layman's work says. Might have something, but again, plate tectonics as a theory only gained wide-scale acceptance in the 1960s even though bits and pieces of evidence had been piling up for a while.
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lofi posted:It's really weird what they've chosen to illustrate - an exotic animal like a pangolin makes sense because gently caress knows what you'd imagine from just a description, but whay cats? I figure that a lot of these books that hyped up having x number of illustrations liked to go for easy marks like that. There are likely plenty of abstract articles in there that you can't really draw anything for.
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Jan 14, 2020 18:56
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talk to me about cancer or diabetes please thank you
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lofi posted:It's really weird what they've chosen to illustrate - an exotic animal like a pangolin makes sense because gently caress knows what you'd imagine from just a description, but whay cats? People loving love cat pictures.
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Jan 14, 2020 19:14
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:Suffragism On that note, I'm curious if "feminism" shows up that far back with a definition as expected, if at all.
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Jan 14, 2020 19:19
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For something from the early 20th century, which I posit was the golden age of racism, this is actually much less racist than I expected. Also, was this put out by a church or some other type of Christian organization? Wondering about that because of how much it went into describing criticism of the theory of evolution and how it seemed very interested in the relations between the nazi party and German church organizations. Anyway, I'll take Socialism.
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Jan 14, 2020 19:21
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Do they have any sort of listing for Post Traumatic Stress or do they just keep calling it Shell Shock?
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Vakal posted:Do they have any sort of listing for Post Traumatic Stress or do they just keep calling it Shell Shock? This is a weird post. PTSD is the modern term, it wouldn't exist at all back then. They called it neurosis, and shell shock was colloquial for the severe cases of neurosis that came out of the first world war. Nobody had seen neurosis so bad as to cause movement disorders, the severity demanded new language to differentiate the acuteness of the disorder.
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Jan 14, 2020 19:32
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Do they have anything on Antonie (Anton) Pannekoek (Pancake)?
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Negrostrike posted:Japanese people   Xaintrailles posted:Taiwan/Formosa.   HONG KONG SLUMLORD posted:I’m going to bet that there are no entries about genitalia but there’s probably a really racist thing printed under the word “negro”.    Baller Time posted:Australia   (sorry) kimihia posted:Dodo bird    Son of Rodney posted:Republicans    dead prez posted:Vaccines  BigBadSteve posted:Psychology. Private Cumshoe posted:anything psychiatry/psychology is probably pretty funny    Gath posted:Look up the Belgian congo. I bet thats a good one   lofi posted:These are really fun, thanks! Tell me about modern art!  Mermaid Autopsy posted:Television   dead prez posted:Comstock Lode is gonna be my porn name   sticksy posted:"Sex," please.   sticksy posted:Look up "dating" or more likely, "courtship." Need some pointers before I go cruise the retirement homes. you broke my grill posted:do they have penicillin dead prez posted:are there any good examples of attempts at marrying god and science Now a few other interesting things I found  That poo poo is nothing new  Oh no, a picture of the Prophet is forbidden!!
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Jan 14, 2020 20:11
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Anything on Elizabeth Windsor? (That book is a year before her father got the throne abdicated to him so maybe not).
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Jan 14, 2020 20:47
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Thanks OP! This one in particular is fascinating; love it that they saw the opiate epidemic coming from so far away. 
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vortmax posted:Here's where the person asking about female can find the answer Good stuff, thanks OP. It's interesting they didn't understand what determined gender back then. I also liked some of their elaborate phrasing like "the sexual impulse if often of extraordinary strength, and apt to exceed the requirements of race preservation" and their take on the "instinctive coyness of the female, calling forth the best of the male, has been evolved.The human application is fairly obvious."   Brb, gotta go "discharge some germ cells."
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Jan 14, 2020 21:42
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Anything on Mahatma Gandhi in there?
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We didn’t have all the states back then, right? Show us Alaska and Hawaii.
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Jan 14, 2020 22:12
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What did they know about the Moon back then? No one had landed on it yet.
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Jan 14, 2020 22:22
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"Treaty of Versailles" and it might've been covered under "evolution," but anything about the Scopes Monkey Trial?
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Marta Velasquez posted:What did they know about the Moon back then? No one had landed on it yet. It's weird that Mars was described as one of the larger planets, when it's actually the second-smallest planet in the solar system. Or I suppose third at the time, counting Pluto. I guess they were basing that comment on its size in the night sky, but they gave a bunch of stats for its diameter, distance from Earth etc? Voting Floater fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 22:38
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Voting Floater posted:It's weird that Mars was described as one of the larger planets, when it's actually the second-smallest planet in the solar system. Or I suppose third at the time, counting Pluto. I guess they were basing that comment on its size in the night sky, but they gave a bunch of stats for its diameter, distance from Earth etc? I think that was as opposed to the minor planets (asteroids).
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Jan 14, 2020 22:52
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Thank you for looking up my very depressing suggestion. It started out like regular “for the times” racist and then went full bore into “SEE: NEGRO PROBLEM”.  Welp, I hate myself.
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Jan 14, 2020 22:52
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Look up Judiasm, let's see how "of the times" this thing really is.
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Jan 14, 2020 22:55
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Radiation or radioactivity or anything to do with atomic theory
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HONG KONG SLUMLORD posted:Thank you for looking up my very depressing suggestion. It started out like regular “for the times” racist and then went full bore into “SEE: NEGRO PROBLEM”. Did you actually read the article? It's not that racist at all
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Jan 14, 2020 23:43
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MageMage posted:Gender & Sexuality Calling it now: it's only going to talk about "gender" in terms of grammatical categories. "Gender" as a socially-constructed role distinct from biological sex was hardly ever talked about until the 1970s.
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Like, it specifically talks about issues like disenfranchisement and jim crow which makws it better than some modern textbooks
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Jan 14, 2020 23:50
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JK Fresco posted:Did you actually read the article? It's not that racist at all Yeah, it's in the language of the early 20th century which on the surface looks really racist, but the actual article about the "Negro problem" is about, as it says the social, economic, civil and political issues affecting black people that persisted and arose after the abolition of slavery, the article even seems to say that many of these problems arose or became worse when southern whites regained control of the legislatures and used that power to disenfranchise and marginalize black people. It actually seems pretty progressive and socially conscious.
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Jan 14, 2020 23:51
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vortmax posted:They don't mention hands getting cut off It doesn't mention it directly, but it does mentions the protests, controversy and outrage that arose because of reports of cruelty and repression in the Congo Free State and how this led to the Belgian state to confiscate and annex the colony, which had previously been the private property of Leopold II.
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OK for real this timeBaller Time posted:Australia    Mr. Dick posted:John von Neumann  PTSDeedly Do posted:The Great Depression   Caesar Saladin posted:can i get a rundown on the different races?  Hmmmm....    dead prez posted:automotive emissions standards       Bonus motorcycle  my dog died im sad posted:The entry for Jazz could be interesting.   VideoTapir posted:US Civil War     Fun fact: Forrest City, Arkansas is named after this piece of poo poo   There's not much on the USSR but the history to that point    Colonel Cancer posted:Did anyone request comrade Lenin? Let's look him up 
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What's it say about crabs? Both the sea creatures and the STD.
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