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Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Our Sacred Honor

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Ordinarily, I don't like the man -- I think he's a blowhard -- but this is well worth reading. I found this a couple years ago and I...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

History Channel Isn't Much

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It's not as if no one ever noticed this before, but I really wish that History Channel would stop with the reality shows junk. I don...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Walt Whitman was gay, too

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But we study his work because he was a great poet. Julius Caesar most certainly indulged but that's not why we read his thoughts in Lati...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

On jumping to conclusions and historical data.

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In discussions that refer to data about historical topics, the non-math folk often fall for the correlation - causation error, as well as mi...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Some people just have different priorities.

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I find it amazing that this article had to be written ... then I remember times in class when I reference basic historical knowledge and I u...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

It's not an agrarian thing, okay?

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If Education Secretary Arne Duncan has his way, kids would be spending a lot more time at school — and a three-month summer would be a th...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Chateau in the Making

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"The Château de Guédelon is not a film set; it is not a restoration; it is not a hey-nonny-no-medieval theme-park. It is an exercise in...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Animated Bayeuax Tapestry

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Just because: Depicting the Norman Conquest of 1066, the Battle of Hastings and the death of Harold, the tapestry is: Linen, 231 feet (70...

Globe Theater Burns

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On this day nearly 400 years ago, Shakespeare's Globe Theater burned. "Built in 1599, the first Globe theatre was 14 years old wh...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Trebuchets. Technology for the Last Millenium.

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The Great Northern Medieval Faire is coming up soon. (well, June 3rd). There will be trebuchets throwing cabbages. Yours truly will be th...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Humor for History Teachers

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Reality Bites, And So Do Customers Historical Site | Delaware, OH, USA (I work at a historical site of the civil war, dressing and acting ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

History Channel? Not so much.

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History Channel is losing it's way, I think. I receive the prime-time schedule in my email every week and it's becoming more and mo...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Google expands its reach

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Sometimes Google needs to just chill. Other times, they are on the right track. This is one of the good times, I think. Streetview now go...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Guy Fawkes

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Gotta love the British sense of humor.
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day, Oct. 25, 1415

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WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishe...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Maps of War

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Interesting.
Monday, July 13, 2009

Trivia for Monday the 13th

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Authors He died as a result of falling out of bed. Viewed as a lunatic in his early years, he was so ashamed of his body that he would pad ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Trivia - Sunday 12th

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An easy one this time, for the musically inclined. What somewhat famous song, set to the tune of an old English drinking song, was written...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Saturday Trivia - July 11

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Trivia Question: What is the modern name for the practice suggested in this passage from the first century A.D.? "The earth neither gr...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Interesting Bayeaux Tapestry Presentation

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