A Short History of the World

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1. defrostJul 2024
   > So nah, I'm not asking you for anything, just don't be so reckless. Once you go down that path, you can't really go back.

   Out of curiousity, who do you think yo are talking to? A US Trump supporter maybe? I'm neither.

   From my PoV, as little as that matters, your responses have been nonsensical and off kilter since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959062

   What, exactly, is the correct answer to

   > Never read a history book?

   Is it "No, I have never read a history book" or is it "Yes, I have never read a history book" ?

   Near as I can tell you leapt to the arrogant and presumptive position that I had somehow never read a history book.

   If it helps I read a A Short History of the World (1922)* H.G.Wells back in about 1974 or so .. and a few hundred others since.

   While I appreciate your unsolicited advice here and the spirit in which you offer it it does rather appear to be directed at somebody entirely not me.

   Perhaps you're prone to rush into responses without engaging any thought or contemplation?

   * That and his The Outline of History weren't too bad for 1920|1930's British PoV History, not definitive nor authorative but not too shabby - Arnold J. Toynbee defended them along the lines of decent for the general public.

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2. carapaceAug 2019
   > The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

   ~H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World"

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3. srathiApr 2015
   * A short history of the world by HG Wells.

   * Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru.

   A bit of history dose this month.

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