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Forged in the Marshalls: USS Johnston’s Rise to Valor
By Thornical Press – January 7, 2026 The USS Johnston (DD‑557) entered the world quietly on 25 March 1943, sliding down the ways at the Seattle‑Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation. She was one of 175 Fletcher‑class destroyers built during the war, but…
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American Agriculture and National Security
By Thornical Press – January 1, 2026 United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins’s announcement advancing Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) modernization and tightening the BioPreferred Program is a decisive and overdue move that puts American farmers and…
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Return of the Shah? A Call for a Constitutional Monarchy for Iran
By Thornical Press – December 31, 2025 There is a conversation Iran must have about the shape of its future: how to secure liberty, protect citizens from state abuse, and build institutions that can withstand the temptations of power. One…
Arts
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Bauhaus Color Theory
By Thornical Press – December 29, 2025 The Bauhaus school, founded in 1919, transformed how artists and designers think about color by treating it as both a scientific system and a vehicle for emotional and spiritual expression. Rather than presenting…
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Walter Gropius: Architect of the Bauhaus
By Thornical Press – December 22, 2025 Walter Gropius stands among the most influential architects and educators of the twentieth century, best known for founding and shaping the Bauhaus, a school and movement that redefined the relationship between art, craft,…
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Bauhaus Dessau: Architecture as Pedagogy
By Thornical Press – December 14, 2025 The Bauhaus building in Dessau stands as one of the most influential monuments of twentieth‑century modernism, a purpose‑built school that translated the Bauhaus movement’s radical pedagogy into an architectural manifesto and a working…
architecture
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Fraunces Tavern: Tavern, Museum, Memorial
By Thornical Press – December 4, 2025 Fraunces Tavern sits at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets in Lower Manhattan like a weathered storyteller, its brick and timber face a counterpoint to the glass towers that now define New…
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A Modern Prelude: The Charnley House’s Construction and Materials
By Thornical Press – December 3, 2025 The Charnley House was commissioned by lumberman James Charnley and completed in 1892 by the office of Adler & Sullivan, with the young Frank Lloyd Wright playing a significant role in the design;…
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Life in the Bailey
By Thornical Press – November 16, 2025 The bailey is the beating heart of an English castle, an open courtyard whose ordinary appearance masks a complex choreography of daily life, military logic, and symbolic power. Early chroniclers and modern historians…
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Roman Brick for Contextual Design
By Thornical Press – November 8, 2025 Roman brick—the long, low-profile brick type inspired by ancient Roman prototypes—has carved an unlikely but enduring niche in American architecture. Its appeal is less about novelty than about a particular visual logic: elongated…
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Ornament and Restraint: The Material Case of the Winslow House
By Thornical Press – November 2, 2025 The Winslow House in River Forest, Illinois stands as Frank Lloyd Wright’s first major independent commission and a decisive moment in the emergence of the Prairie School. Built in 1893–94 for William H.…
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Sunlit Battlements: Roquetaillade Through Time
By Thornical Press – October 21, 2025 Perched on a limestone spur in the rolling countryside south of Bordeaux, the Château de Roquetaillade reads like a condensed history of French fortification and taste. What stands today is the result of…
History
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The King’s Oath: Promissio Regis
By Thornical Press – December 24, 2025 The promissio regis, literally “the king’s promise,” is the formal oath taken by English and later British monarchs at their coronation. Far from being a mere ceremonial flourish, it has functioned across centuries…
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Workplace Culture in GDR State Enterprises 1980–1988
By Thornical Press – December 16, 2025 The years 1980–1988 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) were a period of relative surface stability and growing strain beneath it. In state enterprises (Volkseigene Betriebe, VEBs) the routines of production and the…
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The Democratic Classic: Taste, Care, and the Model A
By Thornical Press – October 20, 2025 The Model A established a new design grammar for Ford: clearer silhouettes, defined surfaces, and a shift from exposed mechanics to contained form. The hood and radiator surround became a vertical focal point,…
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Trabant: DDR Status Symbol
By Thornical Press – October 19, 2025 The Trabant feels like a pocket-sized time machine, a little plaster-and-steel relic that smells faintly of petrol and old upholstery and carries an entire vanished nation’s patience in its modest frame. Introduced in…
opinion
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American Agriculture and National Security
By Thornical Press – January 1, 2026 United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins’s announcement advancing Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) modernization and tightening the BioPreferred Program is a decisive and overdue move that puts American farmers and national security first. For too long, gaps in oversight have left our agricultural land and…
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Return of the Shah? A Call for a Constitutional Monarchy for Iran
By Thornical Press – December 31, 2025 There is a conversation Iran must have about the shape of its future: how to secure liberty, protect citizens from state abuse, and build institutions that can withstand the temptations of power. One proposal that deserves serious consideration is the restoration of a constitutional monarchy under the Shah…
Militaris
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Forged in the Marshalls: USS Johnston’s Rise to Valor
By Thornical Press – January 7, 2026 The USS Johnston (DD‑557) entered the world quietly on 25 March 1943, sliding down the ways at the Seattle‑Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation. She was one of 175 Fletcher‑class destroyers built during the war, but…
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Typ 82E: Der Militarisierte Käfer
By Thornical Press – December 15, 2025 The Volkswagen Type 82E was a wartime adaptation of the civilian Volkswagen Beetle (KdF‑Wagen) developed to meet specific military needs during World War II. Unlike the more widely known Kübelwagen Type 82 —…
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Infantry Tank Mark II (A12) Explained
By Thornical Press – December 8, 2025 The Matilda II — officially the Infantry Tank Mark II (A12) — stands among the most iconic British armored vehicles of the Second World War. Built to a doctrine that separated slow, heavily…
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