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 thoughtfully curated content. Blogging will […]
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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 continue. Another trend in publishing
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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 of medieval pride in the
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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? The aim of this article
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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 nearly 600 sites, interviewed more
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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 fun featured tool that leaves
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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, the history of this proud
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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 is a small family 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 as well as microscopic in
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Put simply, the “shiny object syndrome” is about distractions and fractions. It’s where you encounter distractions and only accomplish a fraction of what you should have. Sadly, only a fraction of your potential. Shiny Object Syndrome, as its name denotes, is the loss of focus in being distracted not by objects of worth, but of
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The Hermitage is the mansion of Andrew Jackson, acclaimed General and 7th President of the United States. Andrew Jackson’s figure stands as a towering monument to American history that can never be torn down; his home, The Hermitage, is equally illustrious. At over 1000 acres, The Hermitage is truly a breathtaking place to visit. Nestled
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