1. | Jun 20, 2014

lol I love Smithy and loved that video sketch and I'm sure that eveyrone was in on the joke but I still found myself cringing a little at their I'm going to kill you looks :/ seriously, am I the only who felt this?

2. | Sep 9, 2013

I'd be interested to hear more on the 1760s asecpt, John, if you run across anything. I can think of a few things going on at the time all over Europe, but not what would have affected Russia in particular.It would be interesting to know if there are exact dates to these cases: do they start in a trickle and then cluster? Does one court case lead to a dozen copycats? It might be an interesting question of whether this was a broader social/economic/political development, or whether it burst out as a kind of legal fad.Allison, that statement by Kliuchevsky would boggle me too. I'm not sure what he thought the larger world was made up of, or what the individual consciousness reflected, if not the larger social world!

3. | Aug 12, 2013

Evreyone would benefit from reading this post

4. | Feb 12, 2012

kL43E4 Sometimes I also see something like this, but earlier I didn`t pay much attention to this!...