Sunday, June 25, 2017

A review of “Korea: The Forgotten War” (Timeless Media Group)

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So I recently finished watching "Korea: The Forgotten War," which is a five-hour series from Timeless Media Group . (Not to be c...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

The Berlin Blockade: The first crisis after World War II

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an IRON CURTAIN  has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

A review of David Starkey's “The Six Wives of Henry VIII”

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Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to discuss them tastefully, there's no way to take them ou...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Where do I find Latin and Greek works in the original?

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You might try the Loeb Classical Library , described at Wikipedia here and found at this website here . (The rest of this post is about h...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

A review of PBS's “Dolley Madison” movie

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Most women who marry heads-of-state seem forever destined to languish in obscurity. They are usually known by those who study their husban...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Learning the basics of Ancient Greek from a book

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"The study of Ancient Greek has long been a bookish pursuit , and rightly so. For this language we have only the books (and other wri...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

The conservative who liked philosophy

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"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes It's a funny thing about  philosophy majors  - none of them knew they wanted ...