Saturday, May 25, 2019

A review of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s “Africa's Great Civilizations” (PBS)

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“The High Contracting Parties do by the present Charter establish an Organization to be known as the ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY . The O...
Friday, May 24, 2019

A review of “Queen Victoria's Empire” (PBS Empires)

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“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

A review of PBS's “Catherine the Great”

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Warning: This post contains some mature themes in it. Although I have tried to cover them tastefully, there's no way to take them out ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

A review of “Egypt's Golden Empire” (PBS Empires)

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The Egyptian language might have been the first language in human history to have been written down . (Although some scholars have argued...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

A review of “Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution” (PBS Empires)

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“Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæsar .” – The New Testament, “The ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

A review of “Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America”

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“... That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Giving Congress the power to coin money was a break with British precedents

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“The coining of money is in all states the act of the sovereign power; for the reason just mentioned, that it's value may be known on...