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Military History Digest #323 H-War Military History Digest #323 Blog Post published by David Silbey on Sunday, December 30, 2018 Ancient: •Ultra-Precise Ice Core Sampling and the Explosive Cause of the Dark Ages https://kottke.org/18/12/ultra-precise-ice-core-sampling-and-the-explosive-cause-of-the-da... 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Citation: David Silbey. Military History Digest #323. H-War. 12-30-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/12840/blog/military-history-digest/3484595/military-history-digest-323 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-War 1865-1914 •The Dakota Sioux Execution Was The Largest in U.S. History but America Has Forgotten It https://www.bustle.com/p/the-dakota-sioux-execution-was-the-largest-in-us-history-but-amer... •The French Conquest of Algeria Was Sick With Nostalgia - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-nostalgia •US Returns 3 Disputed Bells Taken From Philippines in 1901 https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/12/11/us-returns-3-disputed-bells-taken-from-philippines-in... First World War: •'Mimesis: African Soldier' At IWM | Calendar | the New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/event/mimesis-african-soldier-at-iwm/ •~ How Should We Remember the First World War? 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