Category: Articles
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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 from the moment she touched the water, she carried the promise of something more. Sleek,…
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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…
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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 color as an afterthought or purely decorative element, Bauhaus instructors integrated color study into the…
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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 as a compact statement of the moral, religious, and legal obligations that bind the sovereign…
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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, industry, and everyday life. Born into a milieu that combined technical training and cultural engagement,…
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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 rituals of socialist workplace life continued to shape daily existence even as economic bottlenecks, technological…
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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 — a purpose‑built light utility vehicle derived from Beetle components — the Type 82E retained much…
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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 laboratory for design and industry. Designed by Walter Gropius and completed in the mid‑1920s, the…
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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 armored infantry tanks from faster cruiser tanks, the Matilda II combined exceptional protection for its…
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