Last year I started playing around with Merlin Stone's concept of using the start of agriculture for dating purposes as opposed to our current system: http://nontacitare.livejournal.com/206390.htmlRead more... )

If I'd lived in 16th or 17th century England, I would have been highly likely to be accused of witchcraft, according to this test:

http://www.historyextra.com/witchtest

That doesn't really surprise me.

So several months ago I was invited to a wedding which will take place the weekend after labor day. I rsvp'd in time, and didn't think more about it, until last week. When I turned the invitation over, I noticed that it's a Victorian themed wedding. Does anyone have ideas on where to go for a Victorian costume in SW Ohio ( Read more... )

Merlin Stone issued an intriguing proposition. Our current dating system is based on the Christian religion (B.C./A.D.). This shapes the way we view history. For me, everything that happened B.C. is a sort of timeless jumble, and it's difficult to wrap my head around the chronology. Conversely, I tend to see A.D. as the start of the modern era ( Read more... )

So I attended the alternate histories panel ( Read more... )

In which our heroine cheats by using an e-mail for a gaming e-mail list in place of an actual livejournal post ( Read more... )

Last week, I went to Philadelphia for the Modern Languages Association conference. In lieu of an actual post, here is a list of the panels I attended. Let me know if you want to hear more.

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There must be something in the air. nicosomething, you started it. Everywhere I turn I see revisionist history.

I just stumbled upon a truly frightening mockumentary, Confederate States of America, about what would have happened if the South had won. Among other things - an ongoing cold war with Canada, the enslavement of Chinese immigrants, the prohibition ( Read more... )

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