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Bibliography for History’s Mysteries and Ironies, Ancient Egypt. Slide 3, 4. Cleopatra: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books... ANTONY & CLEOPATRA BY ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY  http://departments.kings.edu/womens_h... https://www.scholaradvisor.com/essay-... Blue Lotus: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-sty...   David Pybus Researcher of Blue Lotus:   http://perfumesmellinthings.blogspot.... http://www.trinfinity8.com/secrets-of... http://www.newsweek.com/fragrance-pha... https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1... Slide 5: Cleopatra’s pearl http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38536846/ns...- science/t/cleopatra-pearl-cocktail-proven-possible/#.WSizsWjyuyI http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/e... http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E... Slide 6: Hero’s Machines http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProj... Slide 7: When a fire is lit,

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Chocolate’s Ancient Origins   The history of chocolate is as rich as the ancient treat itself. Originally thought to be a gift from the gods, the bitter cacao drink was believed to bring special powers, and was so valued that it was traded as currency.   In today’s society, chocolate is a commonly available food

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Seers and Prophecy, the Sybils Virgil, in his Aeneid, describes Deiphobe, better known as the Sibyl of Cumae, as coming from “a hundred perforations in the rock, a hundred mouths from which the many utterances rush” (43-5, 163). He further describes “her terrifying riddles” (98-99,164) conjuring the enduring image of a Sibyl as a mysterious

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Who Were The Amazons? The 2,500 year old figure of an ancient Amazon woman has been discovered on a small vase preserved in an American museum.   The figure was found painted on to a white pyxis, a cylindrical box often used in the classical world to keep items of jewellery, cosmetics or other small

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The Man Who Saved Rome-Part One   Magister Militum Flavius Stilicho was the last great hero of the Western Roman Empire and the man who saved Rome.  At a time when all of the noble Patrician fat cat losers around him were busy being a bunch of obnoxious, lazy, back-stabbing sycophants more obsessed with slaves,

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The Prostitute Pirate Queen (Part One) Ching Shih (or Zheng Shi) was a Chinese prostitute who became a powerful female pirate, controlling the infamous Red Flag Fleet. The fleet grew under her command, with expanding reserves of loot, and an organized system of business. Eventually, Ching Shih sought amnesty when offered by the Chinese government,

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Legion Vs Phalanx: Which powerhouse Formation was better?   A discussion on the differences and opposing merits of the Greek phalanx vs. the Roman legion. The organization from Homeric style hero warfare to tightly packed hoplite warfare was world changing. This powerful Greek formation allowed the Greeks to hold off the powerful Persian invasion and

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Author Nancy Jill Thames Reviews The Darkness That Could Be Felt Nancy Jill Thames Nancy Jill Thames, author of the Jillian Bradley series of murder mysteries, has written the following review on Amazon of The Darkness That Could Be Felt by C. Wayne Dawson. Author and journalist Wayne Dawson writes an intriguing tale of heroism and

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Why the Jews Were Expelled From Vienna   Readers of my novel The Darkness That Could Be Felt might wonder why in 1684 Samuel Oppenheimer was one of only a handful of Jews who had taken up tentative residence in Vienna. What happened to the community of Jews who lived there before 1670? This article, taken from

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I traveled to Congregation Agudas Achim, in Austin, Texas on May 9 to see an exhibition commenmorating the anniversary of the Sephardim Jewish community’s arrival in the Ottoman empire. (The Jews had been persecuted by the Spanish monarchy and found refuge with the Ottomans.) Notice the middle panel of this door reproduces the “Vulcan salute” within Congregation

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