Saturday, January 31, 2009

History links for weekend reading

Coffee, and the Viennese cafe...LINK

It didn't start with Starbucks; they merely revived an old tradition...

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Princess Alice
made the Bush girls look like Texan Baptists...
a cautionary guide for the Obama's girls.

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History of Rome podcast...
what's past is prologue...
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A lot of people once blamed the fall of Rome on lead poisoning from pipes.
Is past prologue?
No wonder Congress is crazy...
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Armchair General has voted the battle of Salamis as the most important battle of all times...
The battle of Saratoga came in second...and ironically few American kids know enough about history to heard of this battle...

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The real hero of the Battle of Saratoga was Benedict Arnold...
and many of his descendents served honorably in the British military

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