Monday, August 26, 2024

Color movies are great, but so are black-and-white movies

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Why one should consider watching classic black-and-white movies This might seem a strange way to start this post, but there is a decades-lon...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Benjamin Harrison: A president whose grandfather was another president

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Benjamin Harrison’s grandfather was  William Henry Harrison , who was the ninth president of the United States. This grandfather had served ...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Napoleonic Wars: A series of several coalitions and conflicts

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The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death toll in the millions … The Napoleonic Wars lasted for twelve years, with a death ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Herbert Hoover: More interventionist than he’s remembered

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How much of the blame for the Great Depression belongs to Herbert Hoover? Herbert Hoover had been president for only seven months, when the...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In Search of the Trojan War”

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“The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war : they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

A review of Ken Burns’ “Hemingway” (PBS)

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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

A review of Michael Wood’s “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great”

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“Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure o...