Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 4:41 pm
A new dynasty emerges. Threatened from abroad, Ramesses II leads an army north to fight the Hitites at Kadesh. The battle beomes his crowning achievement, and the basis for a new period of stability and wealth. Resources flood into Egypt. A new capital is built, artisans revel in an explosive period of building, and The House of Life becomes the intellectual centre for the empire.
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Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 11 of September , 2008 at 4:35 pm
Already 1,000 years old, Egypt is a shadow of its former self. By 1560 BC the kingdom lies divided among foreign rulers. But Ahmose, one of the last Egyptian princes, rises to defeat the Hyksos and the Nubians. The New Kingdom is born, uniting Egypt once again. After Ahmose dies, Hatshepsut becomes the first female Pharaoh.
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Writing by Andromeda on Thursday, 4 of September , 2008 at 1:41 pm
Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Dunham’s mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G. I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii.
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Writing by Uriel on Monday, 18 of August , 2008 at 12:43 pm
Political philosopher and visionary, husband and father, dynamic orator and militant minister. In his lifetime, Malcolm X was many men. Born Malcolm Little, he later became “Detroit Red” and “New York Red” — a hustler, drug pusher, pimp, con man and the head of a Boston robbery ring. After spending time in prison, he emerged as Minister Malcolm — Malcolm X, the fiery, eloquent spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Finally, he became El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, an internationally recognized leader and advocate for oppressed peoples. He was both loved and despised, revered and feared– until an assassin’s bullet cut him down at age 39.
American Experience marks the 40th anniversary of his death with “Malcolm X — Make It Plain.” This in-depth film portrait goes straight to the heart, mind and message of one of the modern era’s most complex figures. Actress Alfre Woodard narrates the special. Please Login or Register to see the link.
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Writing by Uriel on Saturday, 12 of April , 2008 at 3:59 pm
The afterlife of Princess Diana may accept its antecedent added to the ambulance ride and the analysis during that ride than to the blow itself. With billions of humans throughout the planet absorbed in her afterlife and the could cause thereof, it is a abysmal abstruseness of why the focus of board and media avoid this analytical breadth of inquiry, which paradoxically seemed to be a abstruseness to the French Interior Minister and the Badge Chief of Paris as well.
Our abstruseness ties in as to why a VIP may accept been traveling after a badge escort in an ambulance taking, after adequate explanation, one hour to get to a hospital. Please Login or Register to see the link.
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Writing by Uriel on Sunday, 11 of November , 2007 at 1:25 pm
Elli Perkins née Present (1949 – March 13, 2003) was a mother of two, a professional glass artist, and a Scientologist who lived in Western New York. She was a senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, New York. Her son, Jeremy, started showing signs of strange and disturbing behavior. She attempted to correct this with treatment by non-psychiatric means consistent with her Scientology beliefs, but his schizophrenia progressed to the point where he felt Elli was poisoning him, prompting an unsuccessful suicide attempt. When this failed, Jeremy instead murdered his mother. Please Login or Register to see the link.
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Writing by xdust777 on Thursday, 8 of November , 2007 at 8:08 am
Athens – The truth about democracy
Athens is revered as the birthplace of Western philosophy, art, science and perhaps the greatest political idea of all time – democracy.
But in this fascinating documentary (first shown on Channel 4 in July 2007), historian Bettany Hughes looks behind some of the myths of Athens’ golden age. She finds a very warlike and aggressive state, which was also capable of terrible mistakes, misdeeds and atrocities. Please Login or Register to see the link.
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Writing by Uriel on Wednesday, 12 of September , 2007 at 1:13 pm
The life of Hitler and the Third Reich is told through news reel footage and a few interviews. For the most part its a rapid march through the years of Hitler’s rise.A good portion of the film is the same old story you’ve seen a dozen times before,however the film stops about midway in to delve into the relationship between Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun. Using home movies the film shows the transformation of Eva from playful young lady to proper “wife”.
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Writing by Uriel on Tuesday, 10 of July , 2007 at 12:43 pm
Many of Hitler’s private videos have no audio. For the first time, lip recognition software can find what he said in them.
Hitler became Chancellor of the Weimar Republic in 1933 through a coalition with conservative and right wing parties, who had hoped to use Hitler’s popularity to gain power. Once in power he initiated what was called the “legal seizure of power.” In the course of a few years he managed to consolidate dictatorial powers through parliamentary legislation. Later he turned out to be erratic and unpredictable leader of the armed forces, often disregarding opinions of other experienced generals and marshals.
Under Hitler’s leadership, driven by a vision of a Nordic master race, Germany invaded several of its smaller neighbors, beginning World War II. This vision also drove an attempt to systematically exterminate other peoples–notably the Jews–called the Holocaust in which 5-10 million people were killed. Other hated peoples included the Romani or Tzigane (Gypsies) of which between 600,000 and 2 million were killed (about 70% of population in German controlled areas). Please Login or Register to see the link.
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Writing by Uriel on Monday, 18 of June , 2007 at 3:30 pm
THE EU HAS BEEN SOLD TO BRITAIN AS OUR BEST HOPE FOR THE FUTURE…. But behind the scenes, has another, more unsettling agenda been unfolding? The European Economic Community (EEC) began for Britain as a free-trade agreement in 1972. Today’s European Union is well on its way to becoming a federal superstate, complete with one currency, one legal system, one military, one police force – even its own national anthem. In this shocking new documentary featuring EU insiders and commentators, independent author Phillip Day covers the history and goals of the European Union,
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