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“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it”, quotes James Bryce. This adage is applicable for academic and hobby reading as well. The reader gains insight into diverse range of subjects and is in control of utilizing the knowledge, thus gained. The ideal ways in which [...]
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“Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected,” reads one of the reviews on the back of the book 33 Questions about American History You’re not Supposed to Ask, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. This is as an appropriate summary of the book as one could expect, as Woods sets out to revisit some of [...]
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A Danish Scientist, Doctor Tyge Krogh from Rigsarkivet, has found a group of murderers from the 18th century that he calls “Melancholy Murderers”. When I read about his research in an article in the newspaper Politiken (11 October, 2009) it made me think of the Muslim terrorists who set out to kill as many as [...]
This is simply one of the best books I have ever read. It will stay a treasured part of my home library. After I put this book down and reflected on it a bit, I headed to my computer to find out all I could about the Congo. I wanted, no desired, to learn all [...]
Knight and Butler believe that ancient peoples possessed scientific knowledge. While this isn’t news to many who have read much of the history of our distant past, the authors provide further evidence. Stonehenge and certain other old structures, according to the authors, are sacred observational ritual places. After spending time in many Native American ruins [...]
On May 31, 1889 an earthen dam on the Little Conemaugh River gave way after torrential rains and washed Johnstown, a small community east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania off the face of the earth. McCullough published his work on the disaster in 1968, for which he was able to interview survivors, getting first-hand accounts of the [...]
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Timeline, Michael Crichton, Published by The Random House Publishing Group, Copyright ? 1999 by Michael Crichton. Fiction-Thriller/Science Fiction.A very young and brilliant millionaire, Robert Doniger, has developed a way to go back in time. He also finances archeology digs. At one of the sites, artifacts show up that cannot possibly be from that time, yet [...]
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I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Darakhovskiy in the gift shop at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC where he was signing copies of his book. I spoke to him for a few minutes and felt that he was a warm and personable man. He had a friendly and affable demeanor.I thought his [...]
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When I tackled this book I thought I would never get finished reading it. The size was humongous! But, as I read on I discovered there was very little the author could have left out of his story. “Where the Heart Was,” tells a family linage story that goes from the 1800′s through Pearl Harbor [...]
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Rosamund Stacey is the first person narrator of her own story in the Millstone by Margaret Drabble. Rosamund is a single mother – nothing strange about that, perhaps, at least in a twenty-first century Britain where now half of births are outside of marriage. But in the early 1960s, when The Millstone was written, unmarried [...]
