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February 11, 2006 03:08 PM EST -- Imagine By Mandi Gordon with the help of memoirs written by Mrs. Danuta Michalak   Imagine something for me.   You wake up everyday safe and warm, your belly full. Your family is around . . . more
And we wonder why?
by Beverly P.
views: 23 | rating: 10 | comments: 13
June 24, 2007 04:05 PM EDT -- I'm not sure what the world has come to.  I recently received an email from a friend that told me Hershey manufacturing will be closing it's U.S. plants and opening in Mexico.  I assumed, . . . more
October 05, 2006 08:41 PM EDT -- Could it be true? Law enforcement of the United States government actually traveled to Bangkok to arrest a pedophile, wined and dined him all the way back, and provided a first class ticket to boot, only . . . more
In Its Own Class
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 113 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 43
November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST -- The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . . more
October 22, 2006 03:49 AM EDT -- Here is a very good article by Kevin Tillman, brother of the late Pat Tillman, a true hero. Pat was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, and Kevin has some interesting thoughts on the War on Terror. . . . more
June 17, 2007 06:17 PM EDT -- This is a vexing question to me, perhaps because of the enormous hostility a sizable number of Americans seem to have about immigrants (again) despite the *fact* that everyone in the Western hemisphere . . . more
Menander The Guardsman
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 7 | rating: 10
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 . . . more
Back On the Silk Road
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 42 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST -- As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . . more
History: Our Mirror
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 17 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
September 17, 2006 11:07 PM EDT -- Some of you might be wondering why I posted a Robert Graves poem, "The Persian Version," without comment. I was hoping someone might make the connection, but then again, it's not like Graves . . . more
December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --  This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response. Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
Menander Is Mine
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 38 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
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 . . . more
May 16, 2007 01:17 PM EDT -- I had just assumed that upon the death of the last WWI combat veteran there would have been some mention of him in the major media, after all World War One was our official coming out party as a great . . . more
December 17, 2006 03:52 PM EST -- Come on, management, you know what was in these articles:   <> http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976863145 http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976863128 . . . more
November 16, 2006 01:59 AM EST -- And the charges of war crimes roll in... ________________________________ New York Times November 15, 2006 12 Detainees Sue Rumsfeld in Germany, Citing Abuse By MARK LANDLER FRANKFURT, Nov. 14 — . . . more
Who Am I? - #4
by Beverly P.
views: 28 | rating: 10 | comments: 13
July 16, 2007 07:51 PM EDT -- Hint #1    When my mother died, my father sent me to live with a stonecutter and his wife more
Lock and load!
by Jay E.
views: 5 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
February 10, 2007 04:20 PM EST -- http://patriotfiles.org/civilizationcalls.htm http://www.aish1.com/videos/obsession512.swf more
October 05, 2006 04:09 PM EDT --                                     . . . more
October 14, 2006 07:53 PM EDT -- The tile of an article on Yahoo News today reads: "Bush keeps revising war justification."  Because the original reasoning didn't hold up, he now simply refers to Iraq in terms of . . . more
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) . . . more
Persepolis
by Sean Paul Kelley
views: 46 | rating: 10 | comments: 3
November 04, 2006 08:54 AM EST -- Author's note: this is nothing more than a thumbnail sketch of Persepolis. I hope to elaborate more on it at a future date.       Today was a day for the ancients, as . . . more
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