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• The Search for God and Guinness

  
  Janey's Muse - News, Views & Reviews. — Authority: 98
  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: 605
  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: 737
  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: 526
  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: 110
  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: 479
  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: 129
  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: 121
  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: 114
  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: 131
  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: 129
  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: 121
  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 ...
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• House of Wittgenstein

  
  Bookyards — Authority: 133
  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: 110
  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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• Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud

  
  Paleoglot — Authority: 407
  Recently a commenter brought up the "PIE ergative theory" and this was woven into another idea about Indo-Europeans purported connection with North-West Caucasian in remote prehistory. I dont have a problem with the idea that PIE might have had contact with NWC (note: not a genetic relationship, just contact). If a ...
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• Lovely Bronze Age Find Germans Find 4,000 Year Old Burial Site

  
  Page in History — Authority: 122
  Der SpeigelOnline has probably the best write up at this point on the Inter City Express (ICE) rail link find of a bronze age burial site.Archaeologists in Germany have made a number of sensational finds along a railway line under construction in eastern Germany -- Bronze Age treasures, burial sites and evidence of ...
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• The year the dominoes fell

  
  carnage and culture — Authority: 136
  By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist http://www.boston.com/ October 21, 2009 IT WAS getting late one evening in Prague, a few months after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, and as we walked along Wenceslas Square , my companion began to weep. When I asked what was wrong, he composed himself and gestured at the ...
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• Emotional Milan reunion for Real new boy Kaka

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 155
  Real Madrid’s Brazilian superstar Kaka faces old club AC Milan for the first time on Wednesday when the two sides do battle at the Santiago Bernabeu in the Champions League Group C match. Kaka was an icon at Milan after six successful years helping the club win the 2007 Champions League crown but left for Real this ...
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• In Search of Walter Benjamins Berlin

  
  Harvard University Press Publicity Blog — Authority: 98
  Here at HUP, where we try to keep the flame for Walter Benjamin in some respects, we maintain connections with legions of Benjamin devotees throughout the academic world. One of them, Rachel Jacoff , Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of Italian at Wellesley ...
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