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The 20th century through the eyes of social media.

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Liberty Ships


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The Civilization games have always been wonderfully addictive, so when Civilization V came out early this month, I snatched it up and have been playing it daily. In the course of the game, you interact with other leaders. Catherine the Great of Russia is portrayed quite flirtatiously.

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Did you know the French and Indian war was the North American manifestation of the Seven Years War, the "First World War"? I did not know that. I also did not know about one of its key battles, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. (US grade school history curricula do not spend a whole lot of time on Canada sad to say.) I've been finding out about ( Read more... )

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A book that the history_time community might find very much of interest: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (2001). It's Cercas' attempts to reconstruct one incident at the end of the Spanish Civil War, in which Rafael Sánchez Mazas (founder of Spain's Falangist party) was shot in a forest near Barcelona. Sánchez Mazas would go on to serve in ( Read more... )

It's sorta-like a Kate Beaton comic, done live-action, but not as good as her comics....

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