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• 1726: The Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 426
  On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt Detail view (click for full image) of the execution of the Gypsies at Giessen. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation . ...
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• This Thanksgiving … Just Stuff It

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 433
  Thanksgiving Turkey without the stuffing, sacrilege One of the most beloved dishes at the Thanksgiving table is the stuffing.  A mix of seasoned vegetables and starches that is traditionally cooked within the cavity of the turkey, stuffing can be traced back to the Roman Empire.  Today, however, it is most ...
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• The Imperial Cult in the Latin East and West

  
  History Blog — Authority: 121
  The East was well used to ruler worship and the deification of living people long before the involvement of the Roman Empire in their government. Greece, particularly, was practiced in the art of ruler worship as it had, for several centuries, a series of rulers of different dynasties in quick succession. It was ...
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• Lugano, The Largest Italian Speaking Town in Switzerland

  
  Trifter — Authority: 531
  Lugano is first mentioned as a city in 875, but was already contained by name in an act of deed in 724 when King Luitprand of Lombardy donated it to the church of Saint Carpoforo in Como. In 1061, Pope Alexander II confirmed and extended these donations. The rest of the middle ages until 1513, Lugano spent as a play ...
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• Disingenuous “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign”

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 148
  The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are not too far off and once again a number of Christianist organizations are launching bogus "protect Christmas" campaigns. One such campaign is a pet project of the theocrats at Liberty Counsel which has launched its seventh annual “ Friend or Foe Christmas ...
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• The Skystone by Jack Whyte

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  The Skystone (A Dream of Eagles: Book 1) by Jack Whyte Penguin Canada, 1993 620 pages ISBN: 0-14-017050-2 Mass Market Paperback Historical Fiction Buy the book at Amazon.ca Buy the book at Amazon.com Centurion Publius Varrus and his General, Caius Britannicus, are on the verge of retirement from the finest ...
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• Warning: German Reunification Will Result in WWIII!

  
  Beyond Babylon — Authority: 556
  Beyond Babylon, Gods final warning ... It is not in Germanys mind today, or its present peaceful people, to wage war against us, but that will all change overnight after a head-on collision with the Islamic leader of a confederation of Muslim states, their mahdi, whetting Europes appetite for more blood and morphing ...
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• Masked Monday

  
  Letters Home — Authority: 111
  Monday, November 9, 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. As life-changing that event has been for this country and for the world, as much as life for millions has changed in the two decades since the old order fell, 20 years is but an afternoon in Europe. This year is the 2,000th anniversary ...
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• Seeking the EUs George Washington

  
  The RaptureAlert.com Blog — Authority: 471
  by Michael G. Mickey (11-6-09) A Christian Science Monitor article opens as follows: Europe has waited since 1992 to agree on a stronger federal identity – a president and a more efficient means to exercise its clout overseas. Now that Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the final holdout, signed a unity treaty ...
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• Patriarch Bartholomew: We owe our hospitals to Byzantium

  
  Ellopos Blog — Authority: 109
  How many people know that the modern hospital originated in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire? It is widely acknowledged that the first hospitals were created in Cappadocia, sometime around 370 A.D. by St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. There had been a tradition since Antiquity of maintaining ...
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• Robed Revolutionary: Thoughts on Progressivism from the Ultimate ‘Conservative’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  The bearded, robed, and bespectacled keynote speaker at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall on Tuesday made a wise first move. His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Christian World, began his speech by naming the elephant in the…
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• Was Roman Britain multiracial?

  
  Evo and Proud — Authority: 107
  Historians often assume that the Romans changed Britain politically but not demographically. The indigenous elites adopted Roman culture while the mass of the population remained Celtic. When the Anglo-Saxons arrived in the fifth century, much of this population fled to Wales and Cornwall, where they would retain ...
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• The Church in other universes

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  The notion of alternate universes (colloquially: “the multiverse”) is not a new one, though it has mostly been confined to the realm of speculative fiction…at least until recently. The multiverse concept has enjoyed more general recognition in the last few years, in its use by the New Atheists as an attempt to ...
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• A Discussion on Romanness Past and Present (2). Is a Roman ‘Race’ Surviving?

  
  Man of Roma — Authority: 451
  Arch of Titus Flavius Vespasianus at the Roman Forum. Click for credits and a larger picture Lichanos But I don’t understand why you say the Jews are the most ancient Romans. What about non-Jews whose families have been in Rome just as long? Or are there none, what with migration, free movement, and the ...
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• Romances of Shakespeare: Cymbeline

  
  Bookstove — Authority: 427
  Cymbeline is generally considered to be the first or at least one of the first of Shakespeare’s late plays which are included in the group of Romances. The Romances are not tragedies because they do not end with terrible events and deaths; however, they are not comedies either because they tend not to end with ...
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• Do you fear God or Man?

  
  Frank Paul Gambino — Authority: 123
  Do you fear God or Man?   Is this a dumb question?   Maybe 20 years ago without a second of consideration the answer would have been yes that is a dumb question, however this is not 20 years ago.  I asked a teen this question and asked for an honest answer and I was told, I have to abide by the law, but I do ...
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• Things that go bump in the night . . .

  
  Lola's Curmudgeonly Musings on Life, Love & Other Trifles — Authority: 121
  Halloween Past Revisited from History.comFrom ghoulies and ghostiesAnd long-leggedy beasties . . . ~ Scottish SayingGoblins and gremlins and ghosties and ghouls . . . oh my. Happy All Hallow’s Eve everyone. Or to be more precise, Happy Samhain.Samhain (pronounced sow-in), is an ancient Celtic festival. The Celts ...
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• The Surprisingly Accurately Named Thirty Years War

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 735
  The Thirty Years War is a website covers that ginormous kerfuffle that consumed Europe in the first half of the 17th Century from the Second Defenestration of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia . It has a handy map with a place locator which will help you tell your Schweidnitz from your Schweinfurt. Here are some ...
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• Alexander The Great

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  He towers over Greek history. He spread the Greek culture. He came the closest to conquering the civilized world. He was the greatest military commander of the ancient world. He was undefeated in battle. He was Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great was born in Pella, the capital of Macedonia on July 20, 356 BC. ...
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• Italian Interior Design

  
  Maria Liberati.com — Authority: 119
  copyright 2009, Maria Liberati Editor: Marsha Huber Italians are known to have a flair for design . Their love for their home goes above the norm. Italian homes, no matter what size, small or large, or decorated and arranged in unique and beautiful ways. The characteristics of Italian designers are open, ...
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