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OMNIVORE: Historians repeat themselves
New York :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
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Ronald Hutton's early experience of discerning reality from fantasy has coloured his view of the subject since; the value of past masters: Historians separate fact from fiction , keeping politicians honest and clearing the way for better thinking; and...
Tags: New York, Norman Naimark, Andrew Roberts, History, Donald Kagan, Gershom Scholem, Thucydides
How An Empire Was Lost In a Day: The Strange Tale of the Exodus
Around the time of Easter, ABC always shows the classic movie 'The Ten Commandments' with Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, and Anne Baxter. The movie is based upon the biblical story of how the Israelites escaped out of bondage from the Egyptians and...
Tags: empire, day, exodus, moses, ten commandments, Charlton Heston, red sea, drowned, rocks, history, archaeology, research, superpower, egypt, Anne Baxter, Hebrews, God, Egyptian Empire, Diodorus Siculus, sinai inscriptions, Charles Forster, allnews, Suez, Yul Brynner, The Ten Commandments, Sinai Peninsula, Egyptians, Sacred history, Bo, The Exodus, strange tale, Lottin de Laval
US History
Some photographers travel for the specific reason to photograph a great event or to capture for the world a historical moment of time. Such was the case at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The dark swarms on the ground that resemble ants...
Tags: History
Bush To Spend Millions In An Attempt To Rewrite History To Make Him Look Better
According to Thom Hartman, former President George W. Bush is trying to re-write history to make himself seem better. W. will be hiring spin doctors to paint him in a more favorable light than the truth. The man that is known worldwide...
Tags: bush, republican, conservative, history, rewrite, spend millions, allnews, Chicago, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Politics, Thom Hartman, George W. Bush
Oral historian to speak at retirement center
Novato :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The program, titled "The Art of the Interview: The Story Behind the Stories," is part of a speaker series moderated by Independent Journal columnist Dick Spotswood.
Tags: oral historian, retirement center, Novato, Ehrlich, Historiography, History, Oral history
Liberty Global pays $3bn for German cable firm$
Frankfurt :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility Liberty Global pays $3bn for German cable firm Cable TV operator controlled by John Malone is buying Unitymedia from BC Partners and Apollo Management Alexandra Frean, US Business Correspondent Liberty Global, the US-based cable television operator...
Tags: Unitymedia, Liberty Global Inc, BC Partners and Apollo, cable operations, BC Partners of London, Germany, John Malone, European, cable firms, Apollo Management, Frankfurt, John C. Malone, Liberty Media, Liberty Global, QVC, Business Finance, House of Morgan, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Dell, J. C. Penney, Investment banks, Primary dealers, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Hutchison 3G, Fox Channel, Arte, Private equity, Deutsche Telekom, Kabel Deutschland, History
Give C-Street the Benefit of the Doubt
There is some controversy surrounding the Stupak amendment to the US health care reform bill, and this has put the spotlight on C-Street, and its alleged insidious influence in Washington DC. C-Street is a secret Christian organization that counts several...
Historical Brutal Torture Techniques
Crime and punishment have been a necessary part of human society.There have been always a punishments to match. Whether torture was used as a form of punishment for crimes, real or imagined, or in an attempt to extract information, it’s truly frightening...
Tags: bizarre, bizzare, brutal tortures, history, interesting, torture, weird
Sulla's solution to the cracking of the Roman Republic
In 82 B.C. Sulla became Dictator of Rome. An office he took after winning a civil war with Marius, a civil war caused by ignoring Roman tradition. Sulla knew...
Tags: Rome, Sulla, Marius, republic, dictator, tradition, Caesar, politics, Italy, ancient, history, senate, state, civil, war, army, tribune, legislation, consul, reform, power, government, legel, illegal
Redefining Corporate Politics and Career Growth – shifting the route
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become...
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