Xibalba

Just some personal thoughts and musings on culture, and history.

Showing posts with label Hero worship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hero worship. Show all posts
Saturday, October 29, 2011

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Another One Bites the Dust Thoughts on the fall of Gaddafi Gaddafi in better days One of the common historical tropes of the la...
Friday, April 09, 2010

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Frederick the Overrated I Frederick II and the Outbreak of the Seven Years War. Frederick the “Great” One of the joys of historic...
Monday, January 18, 2010

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Dianaohroea Flowers for Diana, Kensington Palace 1997 On August 31, 1997 died in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris Diana Spencer, former Pr...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

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“Development”? One of the problems of the historiography of modern Europe is the “westernization” and “modernization” of Russia and why this...
Friday, March 27, 2009

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A Fanatic for all Seasons Thomas More The play A Man for All Seasons ,1 is a most interesting play in that it is of a man who ne...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

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“St. John of Kennedy” John Kennedy The above is of course meant sarcastically. The cult around John Kennedy is in so many ways similar to t...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

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Propaganda An example courtesy of an IRA Stooge Front Cover Nothing but an Unfinished Song ,1 shows that once again the propag...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

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Simon de Montfort Some Thoughts Between 1209 C.E., and 1229 C.E., the south of France was convulsed with the war known as the Albigensian Cr...
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