Sunday, July 30, 2017

A review of PBS's “Henry Ford” movie

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"A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Chaos in Cuba: Communist revolution, Bay of Pigs, and a close call with nuclear disaster

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"That all Acts of the United States in Cuba during its military occupancy thereof are ratified and validated, and all lawful rights ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

A review of Alistair Cooke's “America: A Personal History of the United States”

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" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...
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...