Tag: random musings
group name: historyrules
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October 12, 2007 04:24 PM EDT --
Blowing in the Wind at the Horse Camp!
My new computer is set up so that the first page clues me in to what month and day it is, and the local weather conditions. The trouble is it gives me the weather . . .
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August 07, 2006 02:00 PM EDT --
I've always loved that word, "palimpsest." I like how it sounds and am fascinated by what it means. But I don't like what it conjures up inside my head: visions of cold, shivering medieval . . .
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May 28, 2006 11:03 PM EDT --
Today, my husband and I decided we would have a lazy Sunday. We had planned on going garage saling, but decided against it. We figured all of the good stuff would have been bought up yesterday. So, we . . .
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August 25, 2006 08:58 AM EDT --
I just finished Paul Kriwaczek's short travel-history book "In Search of Zarathustra" and for those of you out there who are, like me, not particularly religious, but curious as to the origins . . .
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September 28, 2006 05:18 PM EDT --
I was browsing through an old copy of To The Finland Station by Edmund Wilson last night and a few lines from Louis Menand's foreword reached out at me, grabbed me by the neck and threw me on the floor. . . .
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August 21, 2006 10:46 AM EDT --
Ascherson in his book Black Sea mentions that the European portion of the Inner Eurasian trade routes, at least by the evidence he has presented, and those from High Medieval Europe who traveled it like . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . .
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August 06, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
Notes from my 2003 trip from Istanbul to Bombay, overland.
When I think of the Hagia Sophia I imagine her as she looked two hundred years after Justinian commissioned her. I imagine all the splendor thinkable . . .
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . .
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September 19, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
Herodotus, to many historians, is anathema. His book is too anecdotal, too colorful, too discursive and some of it is sheer fantasy, nothing like the grim reality Thucydides depicts (and neocons worship) . . .
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July 21, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
In August of 812 AD the 6th Abbasid Caliph Amin, son of Harun al-Rashid, found himself trapped inside Baghdad, abandoned by his court and besieged by his brother, the soon-to-be-Caliph, Ma'mun. Amin . . .
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August 22, 2006 11:53 PM EDT --
I've been reading a wonderful short work called "In Search of Zarathustra" by Paul Kriwaczek the last few days and came across a rather remarkable passage on the Cult of Mithras today. I . . .
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September 05, 2006 06:16 AM EDT --
My name is Jacqueline Bethune. I live in Nebraska with my husband Paul, my son Nicholas who turned a year old August 16, and our dog Buck. I work overnights in a group home for troubled boys. I have been . . .
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November 12, 2006 09:06 PM EST --
These are legitimate questions. It is obvious that terrorists regard America and Americans as enemies and we regard them the same way. This question is not to validate or invalidate that fact. Every American . . .
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April 24, 2006 11:04 PM EDT --
Slavery ran rampant in the Old South before the Civil War. Slaves would do almost anything in order to gain freedom from cruel masters and unbearable living conditions. Slaves, who left the plantations . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:53 PM EST --
History has always been a passion of mine, and this is one of my favorite stories.
Marian Anderson was a brilliant opera singer who embarked on her impressive career during the late 1920's. She . . .
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August 21, 2006 03:37 AM EDT --
When I lived in the area, this was one of the first places I visited. It's beautiful. The area, George Washinton's plantation & home.
Visiting gives you a whole new perspective on . . .
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August 22, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
For the last several days I've been buried under a stack of sticky notes, books, notebooks, travel diaries and manuscript drafts for the Turkey, Anatolia, Byzantium, Trebizond, Constantinople chapter . . .
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February 21, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
It came down to the wire. There had been massive debts paid with loans that resulted in a final debt. Five years ago, owner Tom Kiefaber took out a $1.2 million mortgage to save the place. He nearly paid . . .
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