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Holocene Mysteries
by John T. Cullen
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What really happened during that early twilight zone of human existence--after the last Ice Age, but before people started writing things down? We live in an epoch called the Holocene, which began about 12,000 years ago, and of which we know relatively little except for the past 6,000 years since writing was invented. But there are mysterious megaliths around the world, and strange cities built by skull cultists who kept their dead around--and other evidence that all is not what we may think. Wi... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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From Classrooms to Claymores: A Teacher at War in Vietnam [Secure]
by Ches Schneider
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"Vietnam was a fantasy life of gunfire, blood,heat, and superhuman toil." By late 1969, the end of the war was just over the horizon. But for Ches Schneider, a drafted schoolteacher turned infantry grunt in the deadly Central Highlands, it was just beginning. This story of a Missouri boy, told with grit and honesty, describes the stark transition from the normalcy of schooldays to the life-and-death drama endured daily in Vietnam's bloody jungles.As a soldier in the 1st Infantry Division,... more info>>
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon [Secure]
by David Grann
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": What... more info>>
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The Sator Enigma: Ancient Roman Mystery, Solved At Last?
by John T. Cullen
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The inscription is found in ruins around the former Roman Empire: Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas. From a military headquarters at Dura Europos (in modern Syria) to a sports complex in ancient Pompeii to the towns of Manchester and Cirencester in Great Britain, the mysterious saying appears to have been an aphorism or a spell of extraordinary importance in Classical Roman society. Since at least 1880, generations of scholars have been working to solve it, in various disciplines, and until now nobo... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Very Last Day of the Eastern Roman Empire (And The 1,480 Years Leading To It)
by John T. Cullen
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May 29, 1453: one of the world's great empires breathed its last breath and died under a pounding by the world's first super siege gun. That empire was the ancient Roman Empire--its surviving Eastern half, which outlived the Rome of the West by a thousand years. The people of Constantinople wouldn't know what 'Byzantine' meant--they considered themselves to be Romans. Orban's great bombard, named Basilica, pounded the impregnable walls for weeks. It was capable of tossing stone balls weighing ne... more info>>
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal [Secure]
by Ben Macintyre
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Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the ... more info>>
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Roberts Ridge [Secure]
by Malcolm MacPherson
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Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man's fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now: leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there account--based on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking research--journalist Malcolm MacPherson thrusts us into a drama of rescue, tragedy, and valor in a place that would be known ... more info>>
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33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask [Secure]
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Guess what? The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. Thomas Jefferson thought states' rights--an idea reviled today--were even more important than the Constitution's checks and balances. The "Wild" West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn't involve an intern in a blue dress. Surprised? Don't be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and fl... more info>>
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Deadly Transit
by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
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The true story of Mason & Dixon's voyage to Indonesia in 1761 to observe a rare transit of the planet Venus ... and what happened when a naval battle interrupted the voyage. (Published: 2001)
Words: 7773 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Fabulous Voyage Across The Ocean Sea
by Jay Prasad
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"The D'Avilas, a family of conversos from the south of Spain, whose lives are intertwined with that of Christopher Columbus, take part in his journeys in order to escape the Inquisition. Their narratives offer vivid impressions of the New World, and the enslavement and genocide of the native population." (Published: 2010)
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God Page: Animism, Polytheism, and Monotheism as a Continuum
by John T. Cullen
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From ancient Roman religion, and from studies of Ice Age and Neolithic people, we learn that the great religions of history (and pre-history) have more in common than we thought. In many Christian churches, for example, the motifs of bread and wine along the communion rail directly relate to the Neolithic miracles of grain and fermentation. The earliest kings were scapegoats, ritually killed to atone for their people's sins. Ice Age caverns of more than 20,000 years ago were animist cathedrals i... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific [Secure]
by Robert Leckie
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Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war’s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Gu... more info>>
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Imperial Rome's Regionary Catalogs: Memory, Mystery, and Melancholy
by John T. Cullen
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One of the most valuable historical records left to modern topologists of Rome are the so-called Regionary Catalogs. What we have are barbarized copies of a mysterious ancient document called the Notitiae (also, in slightly different versions, the Curiosum). These documents are loaded with vital statistics and lists of important monuments regarding the Imperial capital in the late empire period. While they are a fountain of information about lost monuments, and streets that people once walked an... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Next Ice Age: Tomorrow
by John T. Cullen
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Global warming is a reality, not for the first time in the past 130,000 years. The only question is how much of it is caused by nature, and how much by mankind. We examine the counterintuitive possibility that global warming may lead to an ice age, starting as early as our lifetimes. Our current epoch, the Holocene, began about 12,000 years ago. The Holocene has witnessed at least two warming episodes and several coolings. The European Medieval Warming Period was an anomaly lasting from 850 to 1... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth [Secure]
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth--and of history--in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods--Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy-noddy, bed coverings, silk embroidery, a pocketbook, a linen tablecloth, a coverlet and a rose bla... more info>>
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The Amarnan Kings Book 1: Scarab - Akhenaten
by Max Overton
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A chance discovery in Syria reveals answers to the mystery of the ancient Egyptian sun-king, the heretic Akhenaten and his beautiful wife Nefertiti. Inscriptions in the tomb of his sister Beketaten, otherwise known as Scarab, tell a story of life and death, intrigue and warfare, in and around the golden court of the kings of the glorious 18th dynasty. The narrative of a young girl growing up at the centre of momentous events - the abolition of the gods, foreign invasion and the fall of a once-... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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The First Reich, or Holy Roman Empire
by John T. Cullen
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When Adolf Hitler promised the German nation he would make them in to a thousand year Reich, a Third Reich, he was not just chattering. He was a shrewd manipulator of public opinion, who recognized the suffering of his adopted people (he was Austrian, not German) after their massive losses and defeat in World War I. He made many promises, including a return to the original First Reich--the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. This article traces the history of the First Reich, and its surpris... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Guns of August [Secure]
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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"More dramatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research."--CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time,... more info>>
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The Paris Gun of 1918, and The Century Leading To It
by John T. Cullen
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Alone in the annals of history stands a super-weapon that terrorized Paris during Germany's last desperate campaign to win World War I. The Paris Gun was a marvel of technology. It required the work of astronomers, geographers, physicists, chemists, and other scientific experts to create a weapon that could fire on Paris from behind German lines--a range of 81 miles (130 kilometers). The shell traveled through the edge of space, and calculations had to be made to account for the earth's rotation... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Viola, A Woeful Tale of Marriage
by Katherine Pym
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Married and with child, Viola is stunned when her husband, Roger, abandons her without a backward glance. The rent is due, and there is no money in her purse. Her father can no longer care for her since his accident, but Viola vows she will not end up in the streets, or become a charity ward of the Parish. She will make her way in the world without a man. She will do it alone, and she will remain an honorable woman. Horatio, a man bitter from betrayal. Not knowing who he is, and as she is ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Walking The Ostia Road to Rome [Ancient Rome Walks Series, Part 1 of 12]
by John T. Cullen
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In the first of twelve articles, we walk from the ancient port of Ostia to the imperial city of Rome, now (150 A.D.) under the enlightened rulership of Antoninus Pius. ### For the first time ever: here is a complete walk through ancient Rome, for the lay reader, through all fourteen Augustan districts. It's a virtual tour, told as if we are really a group of tourists walking through the thronged markets and alleys of the imperial capital in 150 A.D. Learn about Roman history, religion, and custo... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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A Haunting in Tennessee: The Bell Family Spirits: Three Historical Accounts
by Bridget McKenna, Alan M. Clark, John Davis
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What if a mysterious spirit invaded your home, terrorized your children, carried on long conversations with family members, friends and visitors, and materialized objects into being in front of witnesses? What if it knew everything that went on in every one of your neighbors' homes, and could accurately describe events occurring many miles away? What if it told you it would not leave until you were dead? The events chronicled in this book happened to John Bell, his family, and his entire communi... more info>>
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Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 [Secure]
by Jack Beatty
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A brilliant reconsideration of the Gilded Age in America, when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams of freedom and equality died of their impossibility. Jay Gould, the "Mephisto of Wall Street," never runs for office, but he rules. This was his time (and John D. Rockefeller's and Andrew Carnegie's), and this was his country. At the end of the Civil War, with the rebellion put down and slavery ended, America belonged to Lincoln's "plain people." But "government of the peop... more info>>
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic [Secure]
by Joseph J. Ellis
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From the prizewinning author of the best-selling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated and determined group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a time of triumphs; yet, as Joseph J. Ellis makes clear, it was also a time of tragedies--all of which contributed to the shap... more info>>
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work [Secure]
by Nick Taylor
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If you've traveled the nation's highways, flown into New York's LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio's River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)--one of the enduring cornerstones of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 mill... more info>>
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