We’ve announced the winners of Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest, which ended yesterday. Note to...
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Today is Passover (“Pesach”). So this is an appropriate day to discuss The Appointed Times. The Bible...
Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items,...
“When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not...
On March 31, 1917, the Danish West Indies were officially ceded to the US for $25 million...
I have always been interested monitoring ships and air traffic around the world, especially since 9/11. On...
This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington,...
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and only reading it once.” – C.S Lewis
The post...
On March 30, 240 BC, Halley’s Comet made its first recorded perihelion passage. (Photo courtesy of NASA,...
Ballistol is a gun cleaning oil. If my sources are correct, it is composed of white mineral...