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Book Review - Diana Gabaldon's An Echo In The Bone

Diana Gabaldon's An Echo In the Bone definitely brings to mind the age that we live in. Her newest in the Outlander series is definitely not meant for the blog-minded! I think it weighed in at 817 pages and I...

4 comments    books romance book review
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Reading and Writing Are Tools for Life

I believe reading and writing are important tools that a person needs throughout their lifetime regardless of what profession someone is in. Literacy can open up many possibilities for someone. Writing well...

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Mysteries of Ancient History

The World is full of incredible ancient mysteries that history books just won't teach you, and it's rather sad to me how few people are aware of some of the incredible discoveries and unknown history of this...

11 comments    education travel religion
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The Most Important Figures in the History of Astronomy - Part 1

A famous pre-Socratic era Hellenic philosopher, Pythagoras of Samos, Ionia, is for the most part best-known through his work as registered by his followers, the Pythagoreans. His followers thought that...

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Review: Freedom Just Around the Corner

Walter McDougall begins his history of American history from 1585 to 1828 by citing several American literary works which demonstrate how Americans seem naturally to be hustlers. Interestingly enough, he...

0 comments    america freedom americans
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The Magdalene Line of Kathleen McGowan

I've just spent three days in Belgium with Kathleen McGowan, author of "The Expected One" and "The Book of Love". So don't think this is a literary review or something. It's always tricky to write a review...

8 comments    religion arts literature
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Of Paradise and Power

As the tag line “America and Europe in the new world order” suggests, the book Of Paradise and Power is Robert Kagan’s analysis of current transatlantic relations and the historical background which...

3 comments    politics history review
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Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee Review

Reading was not so easy the Ancient People of the Arctic from the standpoint of person with some non-academic knowledge in archeology, but almost no cognition of the pre and early history of northern America....

1 comment    books book reviews arctic history books
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Behaviours/On Truth & Cynicism

  "In the Name of the Father, The Son and into the hole he goes" so said the children as they baptised the family cat in the washing line prop hole at the bottom of the garden. Perception, hearing and...

2 comments    health politics truth
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Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock Book Review

King Arthur and his knights are best-known to most of the Western public as some of the extraordinary figures of legend. In King Arthur's Britain, Leslie Alcock analyzes the historic background to the...

1 comment    book reviews king arthur arthurian legend
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