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Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts
Monday, September 22, 2025

USA spies: From the American Revolution to the Civil War

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“Therefore no one in the armed forces is treated as familiarly as are spies , no one is given rewards as rich as those given to spies , and ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Top secret: The role of spying and code-cracking in the World Wars

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In the 1970s, a British television network made a series called  “The World at War,”  possibly the most comprehensive television history ev...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Spying during the Cold War was a risky business

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“Bond … JAMES Bond.” In May 1960, an  American   U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Russians over Soviet territory , which caused so...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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