HeyJaredGrey Goose Chronicles
Stories, essays and news from across lesser known archaeology, anthropology, history and biology
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Killing Tyrants & Keeping Secrets: Plato's Afterlife (opens the original)
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On 20 July 1944, in a conference hut at the Wolf’s Lair, Claus von Stauffenberg set down a briefcase containing just under a kilo of plastic explosive, made an excuse about a telephone call and left the room. The bomb went off at 12.42, killing four men and leaving Hitler with a perforated eardrum. By midnight Stauffenberg was standing in a courtyard in Berlin, lit by the headlamps of an army vehicle, facing a firing squad. His last words could have been ‘Es lebe das heilige Deutschland’ - Long
Hunger, Bloody Hunger (opens the original)
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In 1783 the Laki volcanic fissure in Iceland began spewing out millions of tons of hydrofluoric acid and sulphur dioxide, darkening the sky. The fire and lava was dramatic, but it was as nothing compared to the fluorine - settling invisibly on the grass - the sheep jaws swelled and their bones went soft and they died in the fields. Half the livestock in the country perished, but people ate the poisoned carcasses anyway, then their leather, shoes, animal harnesses, boat-rope. Somewhere between a
Apollo, the Wolf-God (opens the original)
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Man’s relationship with the gods passed through two regimes: first conviviality, then rape. The third regime, the modern one, is that of indifference, but with the implication that the gods have already withdrawn, and, hence, if they are indifferent in our regard, we can be indifferent as to their existence or otherwise. Such is the peculiar situation of the modern world. <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tEAf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/http
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