Wednesday, June 28, 2023

A review of David Starkey’s “Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant”

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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 out of t...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

A review of “War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin” (BBC)

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Note: The Russians usually refer to their own part of World War II as the “Great Patriotic War.” Some Eastern European countries use this s...
Monday, June 19, 2023

The unknown story behind the King James Version of the Bible

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“If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost!” – Willia...
Friday, June 2, 2023

My passion for linguistics

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“Much pioneering work in documenting the languages of the world has been done by missionary organizations (such as the Summer Institute of L...
Monday, May 22, 2023

A review of “Science in Antiquity” (audiobook)

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People have been curious about the natural world for as long as human beings have existed. The scientific impulse began very early in our hi...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

A review of “Medieval Science” (audiobook)

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The medieval period is often seen as “backwards” today – and to some extent, this really is true. But this era also had some great science, ...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

A review of “David Hume” (audiobook)

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“It is evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature: and that however wide any of them may seem to run f...