Category Archives: History

A footnote to the British Empire

In his 2002 review of The Mystic Masseur, Roger Ebert wrote The West Indies were a footnote to the British Empire, and the Indian community of Trinidad was a footnote to the footnote. Even intelligent, educated people tend to make the … Continue reading

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Untangling my genetic heritage, part II: the West Slavs

For a long time, my perception of the origins of the Germanic people looked something like this map – prior to the Migration period, the Germanic people inhabited an area that stretched east from the Rhine into modern Belarus. The … Continue reading

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