William, ‘the Bad’, took over in 1154. What prompted the nickname ‘the bad’? He suffered from two main misfortunes: the first is that he was
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This book was written by British historian John Julius Norwich. I will attempt to cover the chapters one at a time, other than this first
One of the interesting things to me in the current discussions over capitalism, is that those who talk down about capitalism typically blame the profit
I try to read one Italian novel, and one history/political theory book per month. I started early on the Italian novel thinking I’d be finished
Starting off 2024 doing some heavy lifting: first I read one of the more difficult Italian novels in Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, then tackled the nearly one-million-word novel,
When you swipe to the left on Android phones, there are a bunch of articles that are supposed to be related to things you like.
I was reading in Numbers 11 the other day and in verse 4 it says: “The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again
I believe this was the longest novel in the English language, 1462 pages of small text on larger pages in this version and nearly a
New year, more books to read. I had nearly finished up my list of novels, but I ran across more that I wanted to read,
