Rumor is a sequel is already in the works:
“We Come from the Land of the Ice and Snow, from the Midnight Sun Where Hot Springs Flow.”
(Seriously, tho,, it looks like a great book.)
A Rory soundtrack makes every drink better.
When’s the heavy stuff coming, Dad?
Giants? He’ll def get plenty of snaps if not several starts. I imagine Harbaugh would like a veteran steady hand backup.
The fact that Leonardo and Michelangelo could exist at the same time, in the same place, making historically great art simultaneously, but Michelangelo hated him is both fascinating and sad.
PowerPoint is the opium of corporate culture.
I want a dramatic series on the years that young Michelangelo was in the Medici household at the same time as Lorenzo the Magnificent.
That’s where I heard this!
The fact that they halt the trumpet every time at the note when he was (allegedly) shot in the throat by an arrow is incredible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mar...
Had an email exchange of ideas for a live talk with a scholar I hold in very high esteem today. It was so collegial and mutually creative, sometimes disagreeing but always respectful, and the end result was so great. Why can’t all conversations be like that?
Learned today about the many lives of the Orlando Column in Dubrovnik. Love how they reoriented its direction in the 19th C toward France and Austria to warn them off attacking.
www.atlasobscura.com/places/orlan...
Had no idea oc (Occitan) and oui (modern French) were linguistically and historically related and that Languedoc meant “language of oc.” I can’t wait to annoy my wife with this fact later.
Good luck, sir!
lol happens to me wayyyyy too often
Current Greek history book made Heinrich Schliemann 10 yrs younger than he really was when he married his arranged-marriage child bride. I think I’m done with this book.
Checking on streaming numbers for Great Villains and in the 2 weeks it’s been live it’s possibly st(r)eaming toward a record pace. Who knew it could be viewed as a current events piece?
If you like the Grimkés including the nephews, I’ve got an episode of “Forgotten America” for you! Check it out on The Great Courses or Audible. bit.ly/4omm0oi
& definitely read Kerri Greenidge’s book. 🗃️ #HATM
Btw Sam Kean is also a Great Courses professor (The Hidden History of DNA) like the wonderful @phdrachel.bsky.social
His book Dinner with King Tut, on experimental Archaeology, is a must-read.
Just learned that those heretical Cathars were pescatarian, anti-war, anti-capital punishment, and were so highly literate that the Dominican friars in northern France actively discouraged education to prevent Catharism’s spread.
Love her voice and delivery. So comforting! Thanks.
Fun may be a stretch but I was absolutely spellbound learning of 3 notorious villains of the Old West I’d never heard of: Joaquin Murrieta, Alferd Packer, and Arthur Rockford Manby. Packer inspired Cannibal: The Musical.
Was pleased to see Henry Kissinger make the list of Great Villains of World History. He had solid credentials to make that list.
Reading a history of Greece in a well-known franchise of brief national histories and the number of factual errors is absolutely astounding. Wrong century, timelines wrong, people influencing others who died a century before them. So frustrating.
"Footprints that represent actions of people over minutes, thousands of years ago, were destroyed within days," Britton said. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
I listened to that lecture. He’s not really casting blame on her at all. In fact, he goes to pains to say the label isn’t justified by the evidence. But even her Wikipedia page says “notorious tales about her family have cast Lucrezia as a femme fatale.” He seems to rehabilitate that image.
You could make a Great Course, too. Just sayin’…
Your dietitian is right, and it is incredibly frustrating (and difficult at times) to stay ahead of the pain, but trust the process. Sounds like you’re making amazing progress.
If you’re a writer looking for inspiration for a horror plot or an evil character, please watch Great Villains of History on The Great Courses Plus. It is a rogue’s gallery of men and women that is at turns horrifying, thought-provoking, and baffling.
Ditto. Read it yesterday and was riveted. Witty, thought-provoking, dramatic, great dialogue, and some fantastic world-building in such a brief space.
So, a comrade and fervent champion of Joan of Arc was…also a grotesque, eventually convicted child serial killer? What a strange, horrific historical footbote. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_...
