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Cyril and Methodius
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More on Cosmos and Giordano Bruno:

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  A strange defence, referring to Defending Giordano Bruno: A Response from the Co-Writer of “Cosmos”.
  
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  Cartoons and Fables - How Cosmos Got the Story of Bruno Wrong
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Cosmos
I saw the first episode of the new Cosmos last week. The first and third parts were fine. The middle part, the cartoon about Giordano Bruno was the story I had heard long ago about how ( Read more... )

From Whose Christmas Is It Anyway?
....during the last years of paganism, the cult of Sol remained so popular that the Church Fathers could only neutralize its celebration on the [traditional] winter solstice of December 25th by setting the birthday of Christ on that very same day. In other words, they snatched the day and, sooner rather than ( Read more... )

Is Bachmann the media's anti-Christ?
Yesterday, California became the first state to require gay history in public school textbooks. But Im thinking states might want to consider just focusing on basic history. Yesterdays news cycle was full of stories showing some pretty striking ignorance of the events of the 16th century.

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Some history, via This Day in Ancient History.

At the Daily Episcopalian

Researchers dig up the dirt on father of Protestantism

Via Archaeology in Europe

Tomorrow colgaffneyis has an event at a Presbyterian Church in Hudson, Wisconsin (Just over the St. Croix River from Minnesota), to kick-off their church year. Unfortunately, our own church, St. Mary's Episcopal Church is also starting its church year.( Read more... )