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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Fortune’s Favorites in Ancient Rome — Sulla, Pompey, Crassus and Caesar
Fortune’s Favorites is the third installment of the fascinating “Masters of Rome” series of historical novels by famed Australian novelist Colleen McCullough. The 878-page book

The Grass Crown — Ancient Rome: Marius vs Sulla and the Marsian Wars!
The magnificent “Masters of Rome” series of historic fiction by novelist Colleen McCullough continues down the annals of the Roman Republic with the notable careers

The First Man in Rome — The Apotheosis of Gaius Marius!
This is a wonderful introduction to the “Masters of Rome” series of historic novels by famed author Colleen McCullough. The first tome in this series,

Violence, mental illness, and the brain — A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 2 — From the limbic system and cingulotomy to deep brain stimulation
Abstract — Knowledge of neuroscience flourished during and in the wake of the era of frontal lobotomy, as a byproduct of psychosurgery in the late

Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud
The disintegration of the USSR is inextricably entwined and intimately related to the life and times, failures and accomplishments, paradoxes and contradictions of the courageous

Violence, mental illness, and the brain — A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 1 — From trephination to lobotomy
Abstract — Psychosurgery was developed early in human prehistory (trephination) as a need perhaps to alter aberrant behavior and treat mental illness. The “American Crowbar