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Muhlberger's World History: Guy Halsall: think with history, act in the present.

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Guy Halsall: think with history, act in the present. Guy Halsall sings, "You better free your mind instead! So, what would one be able to contribute to a debate on these (or other) issues if one held a (superficially) seemingly nihilistic view, like mine, of history as random, chaotic, ironic, and unpredictable, and of the past as having no ability in and of itself to compel anyone to do anything?

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Muhlberger's World History: Violence prevention through public health methods

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Violence prevention through public health methods. For a long time I've thought that public health perspectives and strategies were valuable in dealing with social problems - or should be. Here's an excerpt in Salon. From a book by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips. Which discusses Gary Slutkin's informed implementation of that idea. From there, Slutkin’s organization, Cure Violence, was fram...

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Muhlberger's World History: Fintan O'Toole and the imaginative foundations of political structures

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Sunday, July 05, 2015. Fintan O'Toole and the imaginative foundations of political structures. Has Europe lost its hold on our collective imagination? When I was a teenager in Dublin in the early 1970s, the phrase “We’re into Europe! We were into Europe [the EEC]. But what did “Europe” mean in this sense? One by one, the elements of the Europe story have fallen away. Democracy? The free movement of people? On the other, th...

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Muhlberger's World History: Random historical observations

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Monday, June 15, 2015. The weekend before last I had two interesting historical experiences. I attended as I often do a local Windsor event called Art in the Park. Not a lot of art as such, but plenty of crafts, and located in one of the city's most prominent parks – the grounds of the mansion built by Windsor's most famous distiller and smuggler of whiskey into the prohibition era United States. What was alarming was the ...

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Muhlberger's World History: The legend of Saladin

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Tuesday, September 19, 2006. The legend of Saladin. Saladin, the Kurdish warlord who recovered Jerusalem for Islam in 1187 and provoked the Third Crusade (the one in all the movies), is really famous in our time as a great and admirable Muslim leader. And he was famous in medieval times, too. In the chivalry seminar, we saw him used by an anonymous French writer - in the Ordene de Chevalerie -. Prototype of the mujaheed.

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Muhlberger's World History: Grateful for her fine fair discount, Tess cooperates

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Thursday, June 04, 2015. Grateful for her fine fair discount, Tess cooperates. Did Britain produce a more evocative rock album in the early 70s than Selling England by the Pound? So now of course I'm listening to the whole album on YouTube. Posted by Steve Muhlberger. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thorvald's Questions and Questions from Caid. Memories of Catal Huyuk. The legend of Saladin. Off to school in Manila.

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Muhlberger's World History: What would Thomas Jefferson have said?

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Sunday, June 28, 2015. What would Thomas Jefferson have said? Today I took the time to watch Pres. Obama's eulogy all the way through. It certainly will go down as one of the great American speeches. Image: Paine, not Jefferson - Mr. Age of Reason. Posted by Steve Muhlberger. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thorvald's Questions and Questions from Caid. Memories of Catal Huyuk. The legend of Saladin. Living in the future.

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Muhlberger's World History: Gotta have Medieval Robots (UPenn Press)!

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Wednesday, June 03, 2015. Gotta have Medieval Robots (UPenn Press)! E R Truitt, Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art. Full Description, Table of Contents, and More. 296 pages 6 x 9 36 color illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4697-1 $55.00s £36.00. Ebook ISBN 978-0-8122-9140-7 $55.00s £36.00. A volume in the Middle Ages Series. Posted by Steve Muhlberger. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The legend of Saladin.

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Muhlberger's World History: Biblical marriage

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Ancient, medieval, Islamic and world history - comments, resources and discussion. Monday, June 29, 2015. Quite possibly if you are interested in this issue, you've seen something like this. But Juan Cole's summary. Of what the Bible says about marriage is to the point:. 2 Let’s take Solomon, who maintained 300 concubines or sex slaves. 1 Kings 11:3: “He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.” Led him astray! By the way, this is proof that he wa...