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Not surprising since The Heritage Foundation is considered to be one of the most influential conservative think thank and research organizations in the United States.
Someone found that Obama has put his "accomplishments" into the official Whitehouse web site biographies of the presidents, going back to Coolidge (1923-29). Is this in bad taste? This one certainly seems rather tenuous:"In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule." Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies
Who is that "Someone" ?
1000 years of European History in 200 seconds (1000 BC – 2003 BC)Check this out: at first I didn't understand anything but after a while I could find the right periods. This is fast.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hBGrGrQSN4g
I wonder who's going to play the blonde Bimbo, you know the one who makes the guys enthusiastic to enrol ?
A World War II RAF fighter, which crash-landed in a remote part of the Egyptian desert in 1942, has been discovered almost intact. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18038650
Remains of those bathing machines are still existing today but used as rented beach houseshttp://blogs.voanews.com/photos/2011/08/16/august-16-2011/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_hut
An tower once used by the Nazis in Belgium has been renovated for some lucky new residents.Ex-Nazi watchtower becomes luxury home
It's a water tower build between 39-41, not a nazis-build tower even if it was used later as a watch tower by the nazis ...... A WWII-era Belgian water tower gains a second life as an ultramodern luxury mansion...... The tower was used from its build year — believed to be sometime between 1938 and 1941 — up until the early 1990s. During the second world war, the Nazis used the structure as a watch tower ...
I did not know these existed and still do not understand why the need to be on wheels, carted right up to the beach, but they must have been in demand in the early 20th/late 19th century...
On wheel for different reasons, first to remove it from the beach, second to allow women to jump in the sea without being seen in public wearing "a-not-decent-suit" (prudishness)
Google Perfruere iuvat me discere latina.
Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Book II, epistle i, lines 156-157The world needs Rome because historically it couldn't be avoided. The greatest importance of Rome was its legacy through what those Latin barbarians could collect from conquered civilisation that were assimilated and transferred to the Western world, just like it happened when the germanic migrations have subdued the Western roman empire.(not to speak about the Eastern roman empire legacy)
This new 3D version of the famous movie is stunning! ???http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxj1mou03M
Don't forget the Greek influence either. Of course, Rome was essential to the Western World.
What if Rome didn't conquer Greece ? Would Greece had a deeper influence on our civilisation without Rome ? I'm refering to the Antikythera mechanism, the machines built by Archimedes (brought to Rome after the death of Archimedes at the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC), Science, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Arts and so on...
Another point of view about the Crusades (not better nor more objective)
Is there another point of view (Muslim one, if any) on the Crusades which could enlighten us on how the crusades were experienced by their opponents? Of course it would use different standards than western ones but at least this analysis could be very instructive. (even from a contemporary romancer aka Maalouf)
