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Stephen Varcoe is on page 31 of First Russia, Then Tibet (Penguin Travel Library)
p.31
His (Karl Marx) contribution to thought was his conception of society as something fluid, in a state of perpetual change and becoming, and his adumbration of a law governing this process.

Adumbration - the act of providing a vague outline, faint sketch, or shadowy foreshadowing of something without giving the full details. AI
Jun 18, 2026 02:17AM Add a comment
First Russia, Then Tibet (Penguin Travel Library)

Stephen Varcoe
Stephen Varcoe is on page 150 of 270 of The Fall of Constantinople 1453
So let me get this straight.
The bloke who built Mehmet’s enormous cannon with which in 1453 he breached the walls of Constantinople bringing to an end more than 1,100 years of Christian civilisation..

..was a Hungarian named Orbán.
Apr 08, 2026 01:50PM Add a comment
The Fall of Constantinople 1453

Stephen Varcoe
Stephen Varcoe is on page 317 of 504 of From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
The Israelis don’t come out of this too well. Then again neither do the Turks nor the Lebanese.
Oct 17, 2024 09:33AM Add a comment
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

Stephen Varcoe
Stephen Varcoe is on page 114 of 154 of Utz
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Utz

Stephen Varcoe
Stephen Varcoe is on page 142 of 384 of The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
‘It is impossible to understand the San Domingo revolution unless it is studied in close relationship with the revolution in France.’ Appendix p. 331
Jun 11, 2024 01:45PM Add a comment
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

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