European History

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• #214 – The Fall of Monte Cassino

  
  Catholic:Under The Hood — Authority: 104
  In WWII, the Allied forces seeking to reach Rome had to get past the German held Gustav line, unfortunately for the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino – it was at ground zero.Links:The History Network Podcast on the Battle of Monte Cassino – contains more information about the battles around Monte Cassino ...
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• Review-The Saint and the Fasting Girl

  
  Bookworm's Dinner — Authority: 116
  THE SAINT AND THE FASTING GIRL Anna Richenda, iUniverse, 2009, $19.95, hb, 332pp, 9781440132414 The Saint and the Fasting Girl takes place during the reign of Henry VIII when the religious order of the time turned tempestuous as he broke ties with Rome and formed the Church of England. The tale begins at the Saint ...
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• Rahman Baba

  
  CrossRoads... — Authority: 120
  Rahman Baba (1653-1711) is a renowned Pushto Sufi poet. He is fondly called the Nightingale of Pukhtoonkhuwa. In the preface of the book called ‘The Nightingale of Peshawar’ by Jens Enevoldsen, Professor Pareshan Khattak writes: Pashtuns are proud of Khushal Khan Khattak, the warrior-poet of the nation, the ...
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• Homeopathy A – L

  
  Sue Young Homeopathy — Authority: 132
  >Many people in the last two hundred years have discovered the wonder of homeopathy. There are most probably over a hundred thousand American homeopaths, millions of Indian homeopaths, hundreds of thousands of South American homeopaths, and tens of thousands of European homeopaths. This list does not include the ...
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• The root of it all

  
  2ndlook - View From A Square Prism — Authority: 395
  The principle of Cuius regio, eius religio provided for internal religious unity within a state: The religion of the prince became the religion of the state and all its inhabitants. Those inhabitants who could not conform to the prince’s religion were allowed to leave, an innovative idea in the 16th century; this ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Search for God and Guinness

  
  Janey's Muse - News, Views & Reviews. — Authority: 107
  Some Christians might wonder how The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World by Stephen Mansfield fits in with Christian literature. Truth is, it’s much more than a beer story. It is a delightful history book plunging us back to Ireland in the late 1700s and showing us how one ...
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• Full-Length PBS Documentary - After the Fall

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 596
  I dont know why I didnt look on Snag Films earlier today, but if I had, I would have found this PBS documentary about the Berlin Wall. Heres how Snag Films describes the video: How could the most important artifact of the last half century completely disappear? A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, virtually ...
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• The Berlin Wall - A Personal History

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 156
  I lived in Berlin from 1987-1989. While I was there, I studied German and worked for an English-language newspaper. I left the city for Frankfurt just nine months before The Wall fell. There was no hint of revolution.
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• The Berlin Wall, 1961-1989

  
  Historiann — Authority: 528
  The Berlin Wall started to crumble 20 years ago today, November 9, 1989.  What a weird beginning of the end of the Cold War:  in the early and mid-1980s, Americans had worked themselves up into a frenzy of “Evil Empire” fear–any of you old-timers like me remember Red Dawn and The Day After , and ...
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• #212 – The Coming of the Great Monarch

  
  Catholic:Under The Hood — Authority: 104
  For centuries Catholics in Europe believed in the coming of a Great Monarch and a Final Pope who would foreshadow the End Times. This episode looks at these legends and what the Catholic Church teaches about prophecy.Links:Again, these prophecies have not been declared valid by the Magisterium and should be viewed ...
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• BOOKS / Caliban and the Witch : The Creation of Capitalism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 551
  Who Were the Witches?Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of CapitalismBy Alex Knight / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009This Halloween season, there is no book I could recommend more highly than Silvia Federici’s brilliant Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia 2004), which ...
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• The many entities within the Isles

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 471
  This post returns to issues raised by Norman Davies history, The Isles . In my second post in this series, I referred to the confusion that could arise over the term British and the often conflation of that term with English. I think that the key thing to remember in considering the evolution not just of British ...
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• Fiasco II – The horror, the horror…

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 120
  I finished Zola’s novel The Debacle , and I feel as if I barely survived.  The book is absolutely harrowing in its depiction of the horror, gore, and sheer terror of war.  The graphic detail – heads blown off, entrails flying, hideous and ghoulish atrocities – are the sort of thing we expect in movies and ...
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• Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise to Power :: Video

  
  T h e o p h i l o g u e — Authority: 407
  For this same video in unbroken format, click here .
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• A thousand books in one after decade’s research

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  IT took 10 years of research and almost a thousand books across six academic disciplines before John Andrews was satisfied with his latest book. No Other Home Than This: A History of European New Zealanders was launched this month in Wellington, and took a decade to complete due to the volume of research needed. ...
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• The Holy Zohar and the Influence of the Kabbalah

  
  History Blog — Authority: 120
  Of the dozens of texts held sacred by the school of Judaic mysticism known as Kabbalah, perhaps the most important is the Sefer Hazohar, (literally the Book of Splendor. Indeed, students of this collection of several lengthy Kabbalistic commentaries on the Torah — most commonly known in the West as the Holy Zohar ...
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• Train Reading - Norman Davies The Isles: a history 1

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 471
  I began this book some time ago and was enjoying it. However, its a very long book (over a thousand pages), so I got sidetracked. Now, feeling the need for a break from current events as well as Australian history, I have picked it up again. I am not going to write a long post tonight, just a few introductory words. ...
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• FIASCO!!

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 120
  File this under incompetent leaders of great states, right next to George W. Bush:  The Paris of today that everyone dreams about was given to us in the 1860s and 70s by this man, Napoleon III, and his civil servant, Baron Haussmann.  His reign began in liberal democratic enthusiasm, progressed to despotism by way ...
  6 weeks ago

• House of Wittgenstein

  
  Bookyards — Authority: 135
  From : The Guardian Book Shop Photo : http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/ Alexander Waugh RRP: £9.99 Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Publication Date : 07/09/2009 Paperback The story of one of the most talented and eccentric families in European history: the domineering paternal influence of ...
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• #210 – Werewolves!!!

  
  Catholic:Under The Hood — Authority: 104
  It is time for the annual Halloween episode and a look at what Catholics have believed about werewolves are they friendly critters or ferocious creatures? Plus an R rated Cars DVD? and some great feedback.Links:A good article on the history of beliefs about werewolvesThe Catholic Pilot PodcastThe Catholic Laboratory ...
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