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• The Value of History

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 416
  9 November 1989 Yesterday, Europe celebrated that twenty years ago, Germany was reunited. Like so many people, I have fond memories of it. I had been in Berlin a couple of months before the Wall fell, and somehow I had sensed that change was in the air. The VoPos had been friendlier than during my earlier visits, at ...
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• Daughter of York by Anne Easter Smith

  
  Royal Reviews — Authority: 469
  Genre: Historical Fiction Copyright: 2008 Pages: 592 Rating: 3/5 From the authors website: Daughter of York re-visits many of the characters from "A Rose for the Crown," as we follow Margaret, sister of Edward IV and Richard III, from the court of England where, as a pawn in Edwards political schemes, ...
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• Geography of the East and West Berlin and Remember the Berlin Walls Fall

  
  Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! — Authority: 469
  Map from Wikipedia Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The walls destruction did not unite East and West Germany it spelled the start of the end of the division and the Cold War. Berlin was a divided city between the end of World War II in 1945 and reunion in 1990. At first ...
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• Day 5: Retreat Ends and a Historical Visit

  
  Ignorant Historian — Authority: 469
  The theater where Acts 19 may have taken place This morning (remember, we’re 7 hours ahead of the East Coast) we’ll be wrapping up our retreat.  Once we pack up, our team will be heading off to visit  the ruins of Ephesus. This really is a neat trip, to visit a place where Paul lived.  It is my third time ...
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• 15 Minutes – Marque Cornblatt

  
  DVblog — Authority: 123
  15 Minutes – clip (1997, 8.2 MB, 5:09 min.) Early clip made for the web. Over the course of several weeks, guerrilla-style film and video crews followed artists 24 hours a day, and along with actual news coverage, tell the tale of taking the media and the art world hostage in an effort to manufacture ‘15 ...
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• SERIES: HIMALAYAN JOURNALS by Joseph Dalton Hooker – Episode 48 Vol II

  
  The Himalayan Beacon — Authority: 158
  THIS SERIES WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE CONTRIBUTION OF ABDUL KALAM EZANI THE HIMALAYAN BEACON [BEACON ONLINE] EXCLUSIVE HIMALAYAN JOURNALS JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., R.N., F.R.S. Volume II TOP OF KONGRA LAMA We reached the boundary between Sikkim and Tibet early in the afternoon; it is drawn ...
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• Sahara Desert Divulges Vanished Persian Army

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  The Sands of the Sahara desert have finally told a tale of loss of mythical proportions.“The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to ...
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• From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 125
  An interesting look at the history of mental asylums .  I didnt know that some mental asylums had on-site beauty parlors and bowling alleys. Asylums even cared for residents after their deaths. Patients might beburied in the asylums graveyard, or their remains stored forcollection by next of kin – although that ...
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• It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

  
  Tenured Radical — Authority: 479
  I walked into the second section of my U.S. History survey (1865 to the present, dontcha know) at Baruch College on November 9, 1989. I taught two sections in a row for $2,000 each which, with the $5,000 I made from the New School, and an occasional donation from my new girlfriend was enough money to live on for a ...
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• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (audio)

  
  Shelf Love — Authority: 121
  Can a book be done in by good buzz? I was discussing the phenomenon that is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with another blogger recently, and she commented that she wouldn’t touch this book with a 10-foot pole. “Everyone loves it too much!” was her comment. I’ll confess that I too get ...
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• A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck

  
  Read, Read, Read! — Authority: 401
  A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am so glad Grandma Dowdel had returned! And this is a whole new story. A new family (Grandmas new neighbors)have moved in and Grandma Dowdel helps her in her own special way. ;) I absolutely love Richard Pecks humor and character development. This ...
  15 hours ago

• Rancho Cordova Historical Society Announces Board of Directors

  
  The Rancho Cordova Post — Authority: 140
  The Rancho Cordova Historical Society, an organization that will work toward preserving Rancho Cordova’s history, now has its first board of directors.The names of the ten chairs of the new board were announced in the Cordova Community Council newsletter released on Sunday. Craig Osborn, a board member for the ...
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• The Berlin Wall: Our reaction the day after the fall

  
  L.A. Times - Opinion Blog — Authority: 595
  When I say "our," I mean the collection of Times editorial writers and editors who worked in the same department 20 years ago as I do now (for the record, I was 9 years old when the then-undead German Democratic Republic announced on Nov. 9, 1989, that it  would allow its prisoners -- er, citizens -- to travel ...
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• The Historical Jesus and Evangelism

  
  Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth — Authority: 482
  I was just thinking about the way that I preach the Gospel to the unevangelized.  I don’t have any set formula, like say Kirk Cameron & Ray Comfort, but I generally hit certain notes pertaining to our culpability for sin and Jesus’ sacrifice for said sin via his crucifixion and the subsequent victory over ...
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• Necropolis

  
  Adventures of a Pinay Neska — Authority: 118
  According to Wiki, a necropolis is a large cemetery or burial ground usually including structural tombs. The term is usually used for high burial grounds near the centers of ancient civilizations.This word was derived from Greek meaning “city of the dead” . I know it’s rather late talking about this right ...
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• The Fall Of The Berlin Wall: The Wider Historical Context

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 123
  The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Europe was probably inevitable, given the inability of the Communist system to compete economically with the West. We now hear that communism was ‘unsustainable’ and I largely agree, but at the same time I don’t think it was inevitable that the Berlin Wall ...
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• “Real Nefertiti”: contemporary realism black and white female upper body portrait painting, female body symbolism, the historic figure, the most famous beautiful queen Nefertiti portrait, acrylic painting #8936, 2009 | Kazuya Akimoto Art

  
  Kazuya Akimoto Art Blog0 — Authority: 113
  Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum “Real Nefertiti”: contemporary realism black and white female upper body portrait painting, female body symbolism, the historic figure, the most famous beautiful queen Nefertiti portrait, acrylic painting #8936, 2009 | Kazuya Akimoto Art Museum named and added to ...
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• It Happened on Facebook…

  
  Freedom — Authority: 121
  I received the following email, yesterday, on Facebook. Please note the lovely sentiments expressed by the writer. Isn’t his lack of any bigotry, touching? His grasp of truth monumental? James Miller November 8 at 6:50pm i hope all you fake imposter jews have another holocaust and this time they get all of you ...
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• Book Review:: The Red Siren by M. L. Tyndall

  
  Backseat Writer — Authority: 122
  Books in the genre of Christian historical fiction (especially those of a romantic nature) have never been high on my reading list.  However, The Red Siren (Barbour Publishing) by M. L. Tyndall had such a tantalizing title, I couldn’t help but take a peek at the first book in her Charles Towne Belles ...
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• Flute Hero On The Rampage!

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  [YouTube - Link]Ever wonder what would happen if you combined true musical talent with a popular video game like Rockband? This is what you would get.While taking a break from practicing one day, MsFrizzyHair, a recent college graduate with music degree had a bizarre thought as she watched her brother play Rockband. ...
  22 hours ago

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