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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Death of Jacques de Molay

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  Awhile ago I listened to a fabulous book on the Templars by historian Barbara Frale, who spent years researching in the Vatican secret arc...

Color Revolution: Thune and Johnson Built the Runway for a One Party State

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 From Amuse on X : On April 17, 2026, the veteran Democrat strategist James Carville and the longtime journalist Al Hunt sat down for their...

Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

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 From The Collector : Over 6,000 years ago, along the banks of the mighty Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, civilization took its first teeterin...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

My Lagan Love

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Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There blows a lily fair The twilight gleam is in her eye The night is on her hair And like a love-sick ...
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Eating the Elephant One Bite at a Time

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 From Tierney's Real News : Trump has always been honest about what he values: battlefield presence, TV “central casting” presence, and...

Romans, Not “Byzantines”

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 From Medievalists : Few historical civilizations suffer from a greater identity mismatch than the By...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Mystery of a 17th-Century Portrait

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   From ArtNet : It is not known when the painting entered the collection of the Sidney family, which has lived at Penshurst Place since T...

Why America is at War with Iran

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 From Culturcidal : America’s entanglement with Iran really started when they elected a prime minister who soon thereafter nationalized th...

That Vulgar Necklace

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 Marie-Antoinette was the victim of the entire debacle. From Country Life : The story begins in 1772, when Louis XV commissioned an enormous...