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(1) What is it with Austria? (2) Ladies of Liberty: Addendum, Jane...
Last month I published a list of my three favorite “Ladies of Liberty” on this blog. I had apparently missed a very important personage, JANE BURGERMEISTER, who is about to be subjected to a fate...
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When Worlds Collide: the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Tepeyac, December 12
Some people call her “the Empress of the Americas” although to my mind, the only person who really could have had that title might have been the Empress Carlotta (1840-1927). A French and...
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St. Stephen, the First Martyr, and my own personal favorite Carol….about the...
LIFE OF ST. STEPHEN THE PROTOMARTYR OF ALL CHRISTENDOM St. Stephen was martyred in Jerusalem about the year 35. Tradition calls him both the first Christian martyr (or “protomartyr”) and the first...
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May the Fourth be with You (and with thy Spirit)…. May 3rd was Day of the...
Yes, May the Fourth is international Star Wars Day (“May the Fourth be with You”—but watch out for the “Revenge of the Fifth”), and yesterday, all over Western Christendom, is or at least used to be...
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Archaeology of Underwear: Digging below the surface of the late middle ages...
Ah, Beloved Austria! Innsbruck and the Beautiful Tyrol no less—thoughts of Mediaeval Romance! This is why we got into archaeology, isn’t it, Indy? Actually, very modern looking bras and bikinis are...
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Oz: Mythic Power in the Power of Mythic Deception
Ok, my not so amazing prediction: “Oz, the Great and Powerful,” will not be nominated for any academy awards next year. The new Oz comes out just over 11 and under 12 months after The Hunger Games...
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EU arguments about who should profit from tax shelters? Little Countries Like...
I invite the opinion of my former colleagues still active in history and comparative socio-cultural evolution/political anthropology to tell me whether, in their well-researched opinion, there has ever...
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99 Years since the Senseless Assassination which sparked the Senseless War...
In the early chapters of Adolph Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (“My Struggle” in English, “Mea Lucha” en español, much more widely available and read in Mexico, and all over Latin America, oddly...
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A Lament for Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Hapsburg Dynasty, on...
Vienna in particular and Austria in general stood for all that was great and Glorious in Western European history and culture, for at least 400 years, and the Hapsburg Dynasty constituted the third...
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When Murder is just Tough Love: the Culture and Practical Reason of Terrorism...
A close friend sent me a cute French electronic card for Bastille Day 2016. And what a Bastille Day it turned out to be, eh? Think about it!!! A third massive attack on the French people in about a...
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