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[wildflowersoul]

Here's an interesting article about how our current economic meltdown is actually more like the Panic of 1873 and not the Great Depression.

And hey, Iceland's economy seems to be completely melting down.

Soi I'm not all doom & gloom, here is a funny comic for you.

Comments

[tenillypo.livejournal.com]

Well, before I read the articles, I thought you meant that Iceland was literally melting, so I guess staggering financial collapse is at least better than that...right? RIGHT?

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

Ha! I totally did not think through my word choice. I fixed it to make it more clear.

[starflow.livejournal.com]

Wow. That article is really interesting. I might post it on my journal, too. It's making me realize just how limited my history education was, even though it was more advanced than most received. I only vaguely remember learning about this.

I've been avoiding it because it's so depressing, but it's probably time to pull out Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. It's a good place to start, at least.

In less depressing history news (and god knows, we need it), I just learned about a book called Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston. It looks super cool--it has maps showing the coastline in 1630 with an overlay of the current coastline. It describes everything by neighborhood. The woman who wrote it also has a book called Walking Tours of Made Land. Walking tours! Nifty!

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not sure I ever learned about the 1873 thing in high school, our history class was war-war-war. It is really interesting. And scary (also: love your icon! hilarious!).

That Gaining Ground book is in our library! It is one of our most popular books because it's the only book in existence that accurately describes a lot of old land boundaries that are still, amazingly enough, relevant to a bunch of today's real estate deals. I would enjoy doing a walking tour of made land sometime!

[stagnicity.livejournal.com]

I was born in the USA!
I went to school and I got an... A!
I ate a hamburger and said 'Hooray'!

Oh, the little otter is my favorite one...

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

He's my favorite, too!

this one is classic.