All About History - Ancient and Modern

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Should Sangguniang Kabataan be Abolished????cups 75

“The youth is the hope of the fatherland”, a familiar quote says. Then the youth is the “next in line” for our corrupt and irresponsible leaders who are training the youth to be just like them, irresponsible, corrupt, cheaters, dishonest and... more

Previous blog entries:
Jun 26	-	HOTS & History
Jun 16	-	The Rise of modern African Christian movements
Jun 5	-	What is the best kind of government
History's favorite blog entries:
Feb 9	-	Peace or War?
Jan 30	-	Also today in History - Jan 30th
Jan 30	-	jan 30th, 1649 - King Charles I was beheaded for high treason in London
Nov 30	-	What lessons can be drawn from the Vietnam war?
Nov 27	-	Schoolteacher arrested in Sudan for naming a teddy bear "Muhammad"
Nov 24	-	ARHIMEDE
Nov 19	-	Leonardo da Vinci...storied by me
Nov 18	-	Mongolian Culture
Nov 5	-	Britain ~ Guy Fawkes Night
Nov 5	-	Source of Iraq weapons story identified on CBS: Meet Rafid Ahmed.
Oct 28	-	Vatican beatifies 498 victims of Leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War
Sep 30	-	New World Order, the Similarity with the Ancient
Sep 30	-	The roar of Rumi on his 800th birthday
Sep 25	-	bride bouquet custom
Sep 23	-	The fallible evolution of Islamic holy law
Sep 14	-	Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Sep 13	-	The war criminal who fed the world
Sep 9	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part six
Aug 24	-	The Great Divorce of 1074: How the divorce of all clerical wives was enforced
Aug 22	-	The great divorce of clerical wives part 4: the problem of strong Western women
Aug 20	-	The Great Divorce of 1074, part 3: the motive of controlling church property
Aug 19	-	The Great Divorce of 1074, part 2
Aug 18	-	The great divorce of 1074: how all Catholic clergy were forced to divorce their wives, part 1
Aug 18	-	enzo ferrari -the legend storied by me
Aug 14	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part five
Aug 1	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part four
Jul 29	-	109-year old veteran of WWI revisits his trenches
Jul 26	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part three
Jul 25	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part two
Jul 23	-	New book on Western powers' role in Saddam's wars
Jul 22	-	New history textbook for Israel's Arabs
Jul 18	-	Ancient Cults of Sacrifice
Jul 17	-	The Hybrid Traditions of Ancient Athens
Jul 12	-	Uncle Sam's Colonial Experiment - part one
Jul 10	-	America
Jul 7	-	Why ' Open Sesame' ?
Jul 5	-	The 1421 Hypothesis: Did China Discovered America before the Europeans Did?
Jul 5	-	Life in the Philippine Islands before and during the Spanish Conquest
Jun 30	-	Battle of Plassey recalled in South Asa
Jun 30	-	how become free peoples from slaves....or Dinca's life
Jun 28	-	Witch convention in Norway reviews tradition
Jun 28	-	The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Imbroglio?
Jun 25	-	The Palladin Group - The SS Re-Invented
Jun 25	-	Was Gorbachev the man of the 20th century?
Jun 25	-	My Reflections on Alternate History
Jun 24	-	The Philippines under the Kaiser’s Eagle
Jun 24	-	Why Apocrypha was Apocrypha?
Jun 22	-	Okinawa protests Japanese textbook revisions
Jun 22	-	was Mavroyeni insane ?
Jun 19	-	The adventures of John Major in Kuwait
Jun 16	-	NEAGOE BASARAB
Jun 16	-	history storied ...by me
Jun 16	-	Arabic Language
Jun 13	-	An Argentine historian looks at the Falklands war
Jun 12	-	Bible Myths: Deconstructing the walls of Jericho
Jun 7	-	An opportunity to impress the world, with the atomic bomb
Jun 7	-	How did the 1967 war begin?
Jun 4	-	The slowly converging values of Roman army and early church
May 31	-	Oct. 27, 1962: Vasili Arkhipov saves the world
May 29	-	The Role of Renaissance Economic Institutions on Creating Italaian Art Works
May 25	-	history of Israel's shifting borders
May 11	-	New evidence of forced prostitution by Imperial Japan
Apr 29	-	Remember - Θυμίσου - Ricordati . .
Apr 28	-	Legacy of the Guernica bombing in 1937
Apr 5	-	Early Jewish-Christian Community as Shown in the Didache, of 2nd century Syria
Mar 23	-	Map proves Portuguese discovered Australia: new book
Mar 16	-	In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC - Because of this Movie "300"
Mar 10	-	Jail for German Holocaust denier
Mar 3	-	Unified EU history textbooks?
Feb 7	-	Roman descendants found in China?
Jan 4	-	desertification and history
Jan 4	-	A history a buzz
Dec 2	-	Britain planned to cut off the Nile
Nov 15	-	Pompeii's erotic past revealed
Nov 13	-	PORTUGAL: 1557-1668
Nov 12	-	The Jihad for Arab Supremacy
Nov 5	-	Competing Visions for the Jewish Homeland
Oct 28	-	history of sectarian conflict in Iraq
Oct 15	-	The decline of holy war in Christendom
Oct 13	-	Friday 13th and The Knights Templar
Oct 12	-	Christianity's medieval shift from pastoral care to holy war
Oct 6	-	An Israeli view on the history of holy war
Sep 28	-	Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy
Aug 16	-	PORTUGAL and POMBAL (1706-82)
Aug 1	-	Warsaw Uprising - August 1st, 1944
Jul 28	-	On July 28th, 1794, Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined
Jul 27	-	The Amazons
Jul 25	-	On July 25th, 306, Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops
Jul 24	-	On July 24th, 1911 Hiram Bingham re-discovered Machu Picchu
Jul 24	-	The Suez Canal Crisis -- End of the British Empire
Jul 20	-	37 years ago the first man landed on the Moon
Jul 19	-	Who was the first man to flight?
Jul 16	-	The last time the British were in Iraq
Jul 13	-	Jean-Paul Marat
Jul 3	-	The Gehlen Syndrome in Western Intelligence History
Jun 9	-	The steps to ending paganism in Rome
Jun 8	-	Virtues Appropriate to Scarcity in the Growing Deserts
May 23	-	The natural mix of oil with conflict
May 22	-	Bill Clinton's boycott of Iran
May 20	-	The Real King Arthur
May 8	-	May 10, 1796 - Napoleon wins a decisive victory against Austria at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy
Apr 30	-	URI volcanologist discovers lost kingdom of Tambora
Apr 30	-	In the name of Islam - Women are being abused, even mutilated
Apr 9	-	The Collapse of Roman North Africa
Apr 5	-	Conquest and the rise of otherworldly religion in India
Apr 4	-	The Rosenberg Affair
Mar 28	-	27th march, 1513 - Juan Ponce de León first sighted Florida reportedly searching for the Fountain of Youth
Mar 20	-	The Weight of History
Mar 8	-	The Ides of March - Rome, March 15th, 44 BC
Feb 27	-	The desert peoples' impact on China
Feb 22	-	A brief history of magic
Feb 18	-	Timeline of modern protest against Saudi Arabia's monarchy
Feb 14	-	A Good Article on the Cartoon Controversy
Feb 11	-	The Dorian invasions of Greece
Feb 11	-	The Copernican Sham
Feb 9	-	Roman Republic (19th century)
Feb 8	-	Mary I of Scotland
Feb 7	-	The Increasingly Democratic Church
Feb 6	-	Riane Eisler's Vision of History
Feb 2	-	History of Valentine’s Day
Jan 30	-	The Aryan invasions of Harappan India
Jan 21	-	Moses and Akhenaten: One and the Same Person
Jan 16	-	Ivan the Terrible
Jan 15	-	Nika riots
Dec 29	-	Kirishitan - Martyrdom of the 26 Saints of Japan
Dec 29	-	Thomas Becket was murdered at December 29th
Dec 28	-	The True Origin of December 25th: Saturnalia or Mithras?
Dec 16	-	The Assassination of Napoleon
Dec 7	-	Monastery of St Catherine
Dec 7	-	Beethoven died from lead poisoning
Dec 6	-	Egypt’s Royal Sed-Festival
Dec 5	-	The Army's Victory Over the Romans
Dec 4	-	Rome - Monarchy, Republic, Empire
Nov 30	-	CÉSAR
Nov 26	-	History of Portugal
Oct 31	-	The Age of Witch Hunts
Oct 23	-	How Confucism turned into a dominator religion
Oct 12	-	War for Water -- a heritage of desertification from ancient times
Sep 20	-	The Cultural Influence of Zoroastrian Persia
Sep 12	-	King Mausolo
Sep 12	-	Musoleum of Halicarnassus
Sep 8	-	The Lady Linshui: Another Chinese Woman Who Became a Goddess
Sep 7	-	The Beguines: A Medieval Women's Movement
Aug 22	-	Islamic saints as heroes against tyranny
Aug 21	-	Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, by Bat Ye'or
Aug 14	-	Chinese Version of Valentines Day
Aug 13	-	Discussion on private security contractors in Iraq
Aug 13	-	Colombian mercenaries to get Iraq jobs
Aug 3	-	How Britain helped Israel get the bomb
Aug 3	-	CIA trained paramilitary rebels in pre-war Iraq
Jul 30	-	Turkey considers intervention in Iraq
Jul 25	-	China's Female Savior of the World
Jul 17	-	The French Republican Calendar
Jul 17	-	The French Revolution
Jul 16	-	The Bastille and the French Revolution
Jul 7	-	Impact of Persecution on Christianity, part 5: Relations with Women
Jul 6	-	Newton's alchemy manuscript found
Jul 5	-	The Impact of Persecution on Christianity, part 4: Relations with Slaves
Jul 4	-	The Impact of Persecution on Christianity: part 3, relations with Rome and Israel
Jul 2	-	The Impact of Persecution on Chritianity, part 2
Jun 30	-	The Impact of Persecution on Early Christianity, part 1
Jun 30	-	Art Plans For Schindler Factory
Jun 23	-	June 23 1941
Jun 22	-	Alleged relics of Jesus
Jun 22	-	The second face on the shroud of Turin: Why No One Can Fully Explain it?
Jun 22	-	Shroud of Turin
Jun 21	-	The discredited Gnostics
Jun 20	-	Moses and the Ten Commandments
Jun 20	-	Ark of The Covenant / Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion / Axum
Jun 20	-	Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
Jun 20	-	Codex Alexandrinus
Jun 20	-	Codex Sinaiticus
Jun 20	-	Codex Vaticanus
Jun 20	-	Heracles papyrus
Jun 20	-	Magdalen Papyrus
Jun 19	-	Romance Papyrus (Alexander Papyrus)
Jun 19	-	Oxyrhynchus and its papyrus
Jun 19	-	Dead Sea Scrolls
Jun 19	-	The Battle of Tulsa Oklahoma
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - Timeline of World War II
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - Nuremberg trials and pursuit of Nazi collaborators
Jun 13	-	WWII and other POW camp - a Dark side of History
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - Concentration Camps
Jun 13	-	Atrocities of War - Concentration camps
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - Wannsee conference / Final Solution / Holocaust
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - List of World War II conferences
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - List of operations and projects (military and non-military)
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - List of battles, campaigns and theatres of WWII
Jun 13	-	WWII - A Dark Side of History - List of World War II topics
Jun 13	-	WWII - A dark side of History - National Socialism / Third Reich / List of German Officials
Jun 13	-	WWII - A dark side of History - Countries Involved
Jun 13	-	World War II - a dark side of History
Jun 13	-	Mysteries of the Xiaohe Tombs in Xinjiang, China
Jun 13	-	Links between Ancient Greeks and modern science fiction
Jun 12	-	Europe's oldest civilisation unearthed: report
Jun 11	-	My Town (A place nowhere on the tourist brochure:))
Jun 11	-	To end all wars-Ernest Gordon
Jun 11	-	World War II and the concentration camps
Jun 6	-	Petra - The tomb of the Soldier
Jun 5	-	BONAPARTE AND BRAZIL
Jun 2	-	The Terracotta Warriors: forbidding sentinels of a death defying Emperor
Jun 2	-	Punic Wars
Jun 2	-	Alexander, The Great
Jun 1	-	Aztecs
Jun 1	-	China Hails Legacy Of Great Adventurer
May 31	-	HISTORY OF PERSIAN OR PAARSI LANGUAGE
May 22	-	Panonian gladiators
May 16	-	The Near-Destruction of Giza
May 15	-	Crusades - Knights Hospitaller X Templas X Teutonic X Order of Christ
May 15	-	Crusades - People, Children & Spepperd's crusade
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Crusades 1245 - 1300
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Sixth Crusade 1222 - 1244
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Fifth Crusade 1215 - 1221
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Cathar & Baltic Crusades 1208 - 1300
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Fourth Crusade 1198 - 1207
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Third Crusade & Aftermath 1187 - 1197
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Second Crusade Aftermath 1150 - 1186
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - Second Crusade 1144 - 1150
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - First Crusade Aftermath 1100 - 1143
May 15	-	Crusades - Chronology - First Crusade 1095 - 1100
May 15	-	Crusades
May 12	-	Syria - Seleucid Empire
May 12	-	Persia - Sassanids
May 12	-	Persia - Parthia
May 12	-	Persia - Achaemenids - two differentes chronologies - which one ir the correct one?
May 12	-	Persia - Achaemenids
May 12	-	Ancient Media (Medes)
May 12	-	CHRONOLOGY OF DIFFERENT CIVILIZATIONS IN PERSIA , IRAN

Warren G. Harding

In my Columbia History of the World, they describe Harding like so:

"Yet few men less equipped for the task ever held so high an office. His speeches were so devoid of ideas and so graceless in form that they reduced his critics to despair."... more

Previous notes:
May 21	-	check out a tiny bit about a dark time in American History
Apr 14	-	Iliad and odysey
Apr 10	-	Hi
History's favorite notes:
Jan 26	-	1920s Poland
Dec 16	-	"Lost" Teachings of Dr. Gene Scott
Sep 20	-	On the year 1772
Aug 7	-	The real winner at Waterloo
Apr 14	-	Imperial history of the Middle East
Dec 14	-	1990 - 1999
Dec 15	-	HBO renews the epic drama series Rome
Nov 26	-	Contributions of Admiral Zheng He
Jul 30	-	Iran
Jun 11	-	Divulge the community

The Popes Against the Jews

David Kertzer's research in recently opened sections of the Vatican archives exposes a religious dimension to the rise of modern anti-Semitism. He reviews decisions and statements on the "Jewish problem", by clerics, the popes, and Christian... more

Previous reviews:
Apr 21	-	Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
Apr 9	-	HISTORY with humor .........Voltaire
Apr 9	-	HISTORY with humor .........Cardinale Mazarin
History's favorite reviews:
Jan 25	-	What If?
Dec 26	-	Guerrilla: Insurgents, Patriots and Terrorists from Sun Tzu to Bin Laden
Dec 16	-	The Shock Doctrine
Dec 8	-	Antony and Cleopatra
Nov 18	-	Mark Twain dilema
Oct 21	-	Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
Sep 18	-	Misquoting Jesus: The Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why
Sep 14	-	The Tyrannicide Brief
Aug 13	-	Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jul 25	-	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Jul 24	-	History of Hang Tuah - Malays Warriows
Jun 9	-	the lion storie -by Lesage -intelligence test
Dec 3	-	A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China, part 2
Dec 3	-	A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China, part 1
Oct 31	-	Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Aug 8	-	Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body
May 28	-	The Iranian Labyrinth
Mar 26	-	The Two Faces of Islam
Mar 10	-	Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Mar 3	-	Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis
Mar 1	-	The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude
Dec 31	-	Akhenaten and the Religion of Light
Dec 24	-	ROME / ROMA
Nov 5	-	Judaism's Strange Gods
Nov 3	-	Augustus
Oct 31	-	Napoleon & Josephine: An Improbable Marriage
Jun 25	-	PATH TO WAR
May 28	-	Akhenaton, o Rei Herege
May 15	-	A Queda! - As Últimas Horas de Hitler

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

Course No. 327
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
Taught by Jeremy McInerney
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

This series of lectures examines a crucial period in the history of the ancient world, the... more

Previous playlists:
Mar 18	-	The Age of Pericles
Mar 17	-	The History of Ancient Rome
Mar 16	-	Great Battles of the Ancient World

Troops jumping to their mission

Troops Troops Troops going to perform their duties.

Previous videos:
Mar 9	-	A Man for all Seasons - Clip 3 of 3
Mar 8	-	A Man for all Seasons - Clip 2 of 3
Mar 8	-	A Man for all Seasons - Clip 1 of 3
History's favorite videos:
Feb 23	-	A Brief History of US Modern Foreign Policy
Feb 23	-	Napoleon Conquers Spain
Feb 15	-	A Brief History of the USA
Feb 14	-	The Downfall #2
Feb 14	-	The Downfall #1
Feb 11	-	The assassination of Caesar
Feb 2	-	Nemuritorii
Jan 29	-	Planet Earth (National Geographic pictures)
Jan 20	-	You CAN Make A Difference.flv
Jan 19	-	Maid of Orleans - OMD Live Hammersmith Apollo 18th May 2007
Jan 9	-	Lost History - Sins of Our Fathers
Dec 26	-	The Egyptian (1954)
Dec 26	-	Lost History - Ancient Athletes
Dec 22	-	Makassar Tempo Doeloe
Dec 16	-	Lost History - Eleanor of Aquitaine
Dec 16	-	Lost History - The Search For Minoan Cannibalism
Dec 16	-	Lost History - Untimely Deaths
Dec 13	-	Lost History - Medieval Mysteries
Dec 5	-	My name is Baghdad, Je m'appelle Bagdad
Nov 7	-	Rumi: (من غلام قمرم) sang by Dariush.مولانا
Nov 4	-	persepolice-Persian History
Nov 4	-	Persian History II-Persian Language
Nov 4	-	Persian History I-Persian Language
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Lighthouse of Alexandria
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Mausoleum of Maussollos
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Statue of Zeus at Olympia
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Colossus of Rhodes
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Temple of Artemis
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Hanging Gardens Babylon
May 3	-	Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Great Pyramid of Giza