The Encyclopedia of Revolutions and Revolutionaries: From Anarchism to Zhou Enlai by Martin van Creveld, Editor-in-Chief, is an essential reference book for those interested in researching the history of revolutions and revolutionaries. The main drawback is the liberal, left-of-center academic bias that one has come to expect in most of these types of books. And […]
Robert B. Farquhar, an anti-nuclear activist from Georgia, who has written a book on the subject titled Duck and Cover, asserts that, “In 1946 the U.S. had about 7 atomic bombs, none completely assembled; by 1956, 5,000, all assembled; Russia had about 150.” (1) And yet, Stalin and Beria estimated that the number of atomic bombs
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Operation Barbarossa — A Re-Enactment 70 Years Later SPECIAL BULLETIN — from Radio Berlin a Special Report!June 22, 2011 7:00 AM We are sorry to interrupt your programming. It is the German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, speaking: “…At this moment a march is taking place that for its extent, compares with the greatest the world
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Fortunately for the United States, the Japanese strategic plan for World War II was flawed in that the Japanese High Command decided to take on a sleeping giant in order to gain control of the Pacific basin, rather than attack the USSR. There was no way for the Japanese to beat the U.S., even with
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From 1876 onward, after the North recovered its fortunes and the South was unburdened by the end of Reconstruction, the nation was ruled by laissez-faire capitalism, and freedom flourished for most (not all) of the nations’ citizens. The rapid pace of the Industrial Revolution brought about an exemplary standard of living but also new problems
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I apologize in advance to those here who have already assiduously learned these Medieval history lessons and find them redundant in their intellectual ordnance. If you know the facts on the much-maligned Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades — and their historic relationship to Western civilization from your own investigation, you may skip this article. But
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