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• The Myth Of The French Revolution

  
  The Commentator — Authority: 434
  Heres a piece on the French Revolution written, appropriately enough, in French.The crux? How it never lived up to its promise. Instead, it degraded itself eventually commiting suicide under the full weight of reactionary violence through the vile and murderous Reign of Terror.Tyranny is a tough habit to break. ...
  18 hours ago

• Today in History for Dec. 14

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 178
  This is a recap of the worlds news events that happened on Monday, December 14th. (Dec. 14)
  3 days ago

• Man who killed 12 people held in China

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec 14 (IANS) A man who shot dead 12 people and seriously injured two was arrested Sunday in central China’s Hunan province following a manhunt involving 1,000 police personnel, authorities said.Liu Aibing, 34, was captured from a hill in Qingtang township in Anhua county, the police said.He allegedly fired ...
  3 days ago

• A Brief Timeline of FDRs WWII Decisions

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 588
  Yesterday, while exploring Times website I came across this timeline featuring the key decisions made by President Roosevelt during World War II. The World at War is an interactive timeline in which you can click on any of the key decisions listed to learn more about those decisions. The decisions interspersed ...
  5 days ago

• Benefits of Collecting Old Stamps

  
  Vintage Antique Collectible — Authority: 422
  Collecting old stamps , especially vintage postage stamps can bring great value. Collecting old stamps can be fun and educational, it can be affordable, and it can bring about understanding of history, art, travel and many other areas of culture as well. Here is an explanation of why collecting old stamps can be ...
  6 days ago

• Call it Carbonhagen

  
  RochesterConservative.com — Authority: 424
  By Joseph Farrah WorldNetDaily Sometimes it’s difficult to accuse liberals of hypocrisy because they don’t believe in standards – or, at least, the standards are always changing. But not so with the climate alarmists like those meeting in Copenhagen this week. There they are – the elite of the world – ...
  1 week ago

• Reading this now.  It’s absolutely fascinating.

  
  To Here Knows When — Authority: 139
  Reading this now.  It’s absolutely fascinating.
  1 week ago

• Getting It Right (Digitally Speaking): aka “To PC, or not to PC?”

  
  Marking Time — Authority: 109
  It’s a pipe dream: finally stabilizing my platforms and getting all my incoming and outgoing data straight. It will never happen. Like an alcoholic, I need to stop all the denial, admit I have a sickness and turn all these zeroes and ones over to a Higher Power, the Original, One and Only #1. In the ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient Pompeii’s Villa of Mysteries

  
  History Blog — Authority: 115
  Discovered in 1910, nearly two hundred years after the first excavations at Pompeii, the site later dubbed the Villa of Mysteries contained many finds typical of the ruined Roman city, including the ashen outlines its long dead inhabitants. But a cryptic –and remarkably well preserved — series of frescos ...
  1 week ago

• Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong - A Book Review

  
  Review This Crazy World — Authority: 161
  Book Review of 19,000 Years of World History … Tiger Tank Vs T-34 Tank - Battle of Kursk Book Review - “The Last Citadel” … Book Review - “Voices From … See the article here: Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong - A Book Review
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• The Origins and Paths of Epidemics

  
  Cool Infographics — Authority: 491
  This world map shows the origins and spreading paths of Malaria, Leprosy and Small Pox. No legend, but the implication is that as the main arteries diminish in width down to small capillaries represents the number of infection cases.  Key dates and locations are also identified with event description. There is no ...
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• From Los Alamos to Oslo (Via Reykjavik): A Vision Beyond Nuclearism

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 519
  Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant Nigel Young is currently Research Professor in Peace Studies at Colgate University, New York and editor of the upcoming Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace . In anticipation of the Nobel Peace Prize presentation ceremony in Oslo, Norway this Thursday, Young explains ...
  1 week ago

• December 8, 1941: The War with Japan Begins

  
  History Blog — Authority: 115
  December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to man scaled new and scientific heights. “Yesterday, December 7, ...
  1 week ago

• Last, best chance: UN climate conference opens (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  AP – The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. Here is the original:  (AP)"> (AP)">Last, best ...
  1 week ago

• Videos and Lessons About Pearl Harbor

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 588
  Today, December 7, is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor . CNN Student News has a short segment in todays episode about Pearl Harbor. CNN Student News also has some short discussion questions to use in your classroom. Snag Films offers three films about the bombing of Pearl Harbor ...
  1 week ago

• Infamy

  
  Pax Romano's Ramblings — Authority: 119
  December 7th, 1941 [IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ACQccpcVwNk/SxzbUIgTfdI/AAAAAAAAHGU/A2gzFhQPHzU/s400/PearlHarbor.jpg]
  1 week ago

• An excellent revealing article for economic recovery…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  “Many have proclaimed that the end of the recession happened sometime this past summer. If that in fact happened, we are one or two quarters into recovery. Yet, a number of factors have not lined up with the post World War II history of recessions. Among these are the behavior of non-financial stocks’ profits and ...
  1 week ago

• History is Weird, my New World Order unveiled.

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 138
  History is Weird my New World Order unveiled. History is weird , the old reformation era alignments are out of date in the United States of the 21st century in part due to the excesses of the Protestant Hard right, among other things.The left, See’s the trend as being towards agnosticism ...
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• Copy of US Declaration of Independence to be auctioned

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New York, Dec 4 (RIA Novosti) An 18th-century copy of the US Declaration of Independence, one of the most valuable documents in world history, will be auctioned at Christie’s in London later Friday.It is one of the first written copies of the declaration, adopted unanimously July 4, 1776 by all senators of the then ...
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• Carriages of Royalty

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 138
  Carriages of Royalty New Presidential Limousine One of several fantastically ornate horse-drawn carriages on display in the armory of the Moscow Kreml ("Kremlin" is a Scandinavian word for fort!). The suspensions are amazingly primitive to a modern-day mechanics eye. royal carriage at Laken or Laeken, ...
  2 weeks ago

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