It’s virtually a meta-book on Charlemagne! “Becoming Charlemagne” by Jeff Sypeck was an unexpected find in a bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee that totally transformed my understanding of the “Father of Europe.” Compared to “The Two Lives of Charlemagne” or Fried’s “Charlemagne,” Jeff Sypeck’s treatment of King Charlemagne was a different […]
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This book is a racier, sexier rebirth of “God’s War” by Christopher Tyerman! “The World of the Crusades” by the same author repackages a masterpiece in the only way it can be improved upon: load it with images, charts, graphs, and beautiful artwork. This resplendent new offering by historian Christopher
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Out of the mind of the master comes “Upheaval” by Jared Diamond. Scintillating, didactic, and eminently practical, this book observes the historical record by subjecting them to both historical and psychological scrutiny. How does one apply the psychology of individuals to nations? Well, that’s the marvel of “Upheaval: Turning Points
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You definitely want to photograph cemetery headstones the right way once and not have to go back a second time. There is a method of taking pictures and documenting a cemetery, or a section of a cemetery, so that you will have all of the necessary information that you need
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WordPress subscription plugins can be very confusing for new bloggers. Don’t just be a “best” or “free” list dummy, know your form TYPES and CLASSES first before choosing. I’m going to introduce you to every WP form TYPE and CLASS so you can best decide which ones are the right
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Come take a tour of the University of Alabama Campus Quad with 65 photos I took while there! The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa is a campus that is not only renown for its athletics, but also its old-world, colonial architecture. The oldest and most beautiful buildings were constructed of
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Blogging IS back, WordPress is on the rise, and the internet is moving towards a decentralized web. The next renaissance is right around the corner and you’re just in time to be the beneficiary of this trend which will manifest itself in terms of less ‘social media dump’ and more
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“The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons” by Jean Manco is how every book should be written: with preeminent scholarship and exquisite maps and supporting images. This masterpiece was compiled vis-à-vis Mary Hollingworth’s “The Medici Family” or Christopher De Hamel’s “Remarkable Manuscripts” and is a trend in publishing I hope to see
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Saint Patrick’s Day, or Saint Paddy’s Day, is an Irish holiday intended to honor the greatest of Ireland’s saints, Saint Patrick, who was neither a saint nor Irish. Putting aside the historical and cultural irony for now, the importance of St. Patrick has morphed from a 1500 year old symbol
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How many WordPress plugins are your best plugins? Are they working together efficiently or just sitting there staring at each other incommunicado? Of your plugin arsenal which ones are the ones you absolutely need, and are there WordPress plugins out there that you don’t have and are missing out on?
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Quite simply, Destination Lithuanian America is a massive project which aims to eventually document 100% of the Lithuanian sites that exist in the United States. You might be tempted to think that’s an easy task, but no, the Destination Lithuanian America project (aka “Tikslas – Amerika” in Lithuanian) has documented
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Find out why I give the MyHeritage PedigreeMap a rating of 5 out of 10. It’s great but there are major limitations as well. There are bugs in the system so here are the positives and negatives, pros and cons, the pluses and minuses, the good and bad about this
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“Alabama: The History of a Deep South State” is a carefully constructed montage of the history of the state of Alabama from its earliest native inhabitants up until the modern period. Of course, the actual state itself did not carry the moniker of Alabama as we know it until 1819,
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Manasco Cemetery is located in Walker County, Alabama, tucked away in the beautiful countryside surrounding Townley. Townley sits west of Jasper, northeast of Fayette and surrounded by other small towns such as Carbon Hill, Glen Allen, Berry, and even the eponymous Manasco, one of Alabama’s many ghost towns. Manasco Cemetery
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“God’s War” by Christopher Tyerman knocks all other Crusade books off of the shelf! It’s 922 pages of amazing page-turns; I mean when’s the last time you read a 900 page book without some sort of latent fear of actually trying to finish it? Tyerman’s “God’s War” is both macroscopic
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