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I've just re-read Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Seebag Montifore.
Great name great book
Great name great book
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Ive just picked up "Path between the Seas" the book by McCullough on the Panama Canal"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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'A Time For Angels' by Elmer Bendiner on the League of Nations, and several B.B.C. editions which I picked up very cheaply in a charity shop, on subjects such as history and the writing of history in general, the Reformation, the beginnings of English language and nationhood, and so on.
And a catalogue from the British Museum on fakes in art.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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I recently watched 300 and Braveheart.
Braveheart sucked, though; they should have had him rescued at the end.Comment
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I picked up Sir Alan Gardiner's Egypt of the Pharao's for 9 euro's in a second-hand book shop last week. Although a bit outdated (1961) it is an awesome read.Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
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I'm reading April Blood about the assassination attempt on Lorenzo the Magnificient and also Thomas Paines' Common Sense and other writings.Comment
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The embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama.
Nice book on the Golden Era of the Dutch Republic, from an internal point of view."post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
"I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon Miller
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I just read Rubicon by Tom Holland, about the fall of the Roman Republic. It chronicles Rome from Sulla to Octavian, explaining about Roman social and cultural ideals throughout and how they had a role to play as well. Very well written and moves as quick as a novel (well, the events of the time period moved quick as well
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Just finished Navy SEALs: A History of the Early Years by Kevin Dockery.
Reading Masters of Doom - does that count?
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
Iain Banks missed deadline due to Civ | The eyes are the groin of the head. - Dwight Schrute.
One more turn .... One more turn .... | WWTSD
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I most recently finished Bernard Lewis' excellent The Muslim Discovery of Europe Right now I'm halfway through some history of Freemasonry, mediocre enough to forget the author. Oh well.Last edited by Darius871; April 9, 2007, 18:43.Comment
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Shall get myself Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West soon. Anyone heard anything about this?Comment
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It's here! It's here!
William H. Hallahan's The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775 has arrived! I'll start it this evening.
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Jerusalem by Karen Armstrong"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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I'm currently reading two recently published history books:
Civilization: A New History of the Western World by Roger Osborne
The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer.
I've also found a copy of the entire, unabridged, multi-volume A Study of History by A. J. Toynbee at a garage sale! $30 isn't bad for the longest written work in the English language. 
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So your intention is to read it all?
"An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
"Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - SenecaComment
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