http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/history/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:40:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418646/posts "Why is it that with all of our history we learn little is anything from history? CONSIDER OUR NATION! The people go from CHAINS to spiritual faith; from SPIRITUAL FAITH to courage; from COURAGE to liberty; from LIBERTY to abundance; from ABUNDANCE to selfishness; from SELFISHNESS to complacency(self satisfaction); from COMPLACENTCY to apathy (lack of interest); from APETHY to despondency; from DESPONDECY back again to BONDAGE. Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people (Proverbs 14:34). The Ignorant Fishermen Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418646/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:40:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418425/posts The History Channel will produce more episodes of its vastly biased and unpopular, "The People Who Agree With Celebrities Speak." Hosted by Matt Damon, Sean Penn, and Eric Estrada, the series presents letters and documents of people whose words are perfectly in line with the left-leaning celebrities who read the documents with pseudo-seriousness.The show will be narrated by Howard Zinn, who agrees with people who agree with celebrities. "These are the voices of the people who were really there doing things that most of my friends agree with, but things that we are too afraid to do because we prefer... DotPenn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418425/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:57:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416875/posts Last year I did a piece on the top stories of the year, but with the closure of the 'Aughts' or whatever you want to call it, I thought a look back at the last 10 years might give some people some perspective. And what an amazing and historic decade it was. Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416875/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415573/posts Just a quick question, that I am pretty sure I already know the answer to, but have a nagging doubt about: Was cotton ever a cash crop in Texas? I keep thinking 'No', but as I said, I'm getting a little voice in my head saying:"it might'a been...". Anyone know the answer? TV program prop anomaly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415573/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:33:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415203/posts http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2200/Mises_1459_EBk_v4.pdf Planning for Freedom http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Planned_Chaos.pdf Planned Chaos http://mises.org/etexts/anticap.pdf The Anticapitalistic Menality http://mises.org/Books/bureaucracy.pdf Bureaucracy http://mises.org/Books/og.pdf Omnipotent Government (The Rise of the Total State and Total War) The Freedom Library; Ludwig von Mises Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415203/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:29:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414018/posts During the 70 years that the communists controlled the Soviet Union, they had a peculiar way of teaching history to the people. They would teach things as historical fact that never happened. If you were one of those who took umbrage with their revisionist history lessons, you would soon find yourself living in a tiny apartment in a part of the country where they laugh at anyone who claims the world is getting warmer. In a communist country this is the only way to convince the masses that they are actually better off than anyone in the history of... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414018/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts During the 70 years that the communists controlled the Soviet Union, they had a peculiar way of teaching history to the people. They would teach things as historical fact that never happened. If you were one of those who took umbrage with their revisionist history lessons, you would soon find yourself living in a tiny apartment in a part of the country where they laugh at anyone who claims the world is getting warmer. In a communist country this is the only way to convince the masses that they are actually better off than anyone in the history of... Enterprise Record Post Scripts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413741/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:19:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413485/posts Men like Ford was the catalyst that generated opportunities and because of needs provide jobs for many, many citizens across the nation and than spawn other kinds of creations that we enjoy today. Capitalist Henry Ford’s Mirror of America museum what a legacy Ford left us! - Clip 1 video Introduction Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413485/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412724/posts The remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that has been dated back to the time of Jesus have been unveiled - just days before Christmas. The find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there as a boy, Israeli archaeologists said. The dwelling and older discoveries of nearby tombs in burial caves suggest that Nazareth was an out-of-the-way hamlet of around 50 houses on a patch of about four acres. It was evidently populated by Jews of modest means who kept camouflaged grottos to hide from... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412724/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:40:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411948/posts Printer Friendly December 19, 2009 Obama and the Malleability of History In pursuit of noble goals, Obama ignobly twists the truth. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Obama has given a number of major speeches touching on world affairs since he announced his bid for the presidency. All have invoked historical examples — usually for moral purposes, but often at the expense of both literal and figurative truth. ... Private Papers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411948/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:25:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411379/posts A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America's War of Independence We think we know the Revolutionary War. After all, the American Revolution and the war that accompanied it not only determined the nation we would become but also continue to define who we are. The Declaration of Independence, the Midnight Ride, Valley Forge—the whole glorious chronicle of the colonists’ rebellion against tyranny is in the American DNA. Often it is the Revolution that is a child’s first encounter with history.Yet much of what we know is not entirely true. Perhaps more than any defining moment in American history,... Smithsonian Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411379/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410766/posts For those that don't know about history ... here is a condensed version that will take about 2 minutes or less to read: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the... e-mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410766/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410508/posts Charter Colleges? Deborah Lambert, December 18, 2009 Amid the heavy-handed bureaucracies that dominate our nation’s colleges and universities, there are seeds of opportunity. Professor Marvin Olasky noted in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education that a move toward Charter Colleges might be the answer. Dr. Olasky, editor-in-chief of the news magazine World and a journalism professor at the U. of Texas, Austin, hails Rob Koons, “the University of Texas professor removed last fall as head of a UT Western Civilization program, who is proposing that Texas legislators back the creation of charter colleges, as they now support... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410508/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410091/posts MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." (END VIDEO CLIP) Change our traditions and change our history. What did she mean by that? I think we are starting to see it. Changing history means not just telling the same old tall tales of the free market system and the Founders. No, it's the history according to progressives. And it's not merely spinning... fox news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2410091/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:17:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409051/posts Aug 21, 1932 Eugenists from all over the world will attend the Third International Congress of Eugenics today and tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History. At general and sectional meetings they will discuss advances in the study for the physical and mental improvement of the human race. Aug 23, 1932 Eugenic reforms must be adopted within the next hundred years if civilization is to go on, was the message of Major Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, founder of the modern theory of evolution, read last night at the Third International Congress of Eugenics, which opened yesterday at... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409051/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:49:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408413/posts WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - EXCLUSIVE - Researchers have revealed the first images from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization. Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, says the city could be thousands of years old; possibly even pre-dating the ancient Egyptian pyramids, at Giza. The site was found using advanced satellite imagery, and is not in any way associated with the alleged site found by Russian explorers near Cuba in 2001, at a depth of 2300 feet. “To be... Herald de Paris http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408413/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:55:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407925/posts Hollywood celebrities and education gurus have teamed together to distribute to schools across the country a dramatic new curriculum that casts American history as an epic march of victims seeking to shrug off the shackles of the warmongering, racist, capitalist, imperialist United States. Celebs to kids: America stinks! '55 rich white men drafted Constitution to protect their class – slaveholders'Hollywood celebrities and education gurus have teamed together to distribute to schools across the country a dramatic new curriculum that casts American history as an epic march of victims seeking to shrug off the shackles of the warmongering, racist, capitalist,... Education News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407925/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:14:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407237/posts Images of Nazi or Soviet atrocities always provoke surreal astonishment, “How could people let this happen to themselves? Didn’t they see the signs, hear the insane speeches? Why didn’t they die fighting this?” Watching Matt Damon’s The People Speak, I ask myself, “Are we there yet…there where all those millions of victims were, when I shouted at them for their supposed apathy, lethargy, culpable complacency?” Will someone look back at me one day and ask, “How could she watch rising Communism on television and shuffle off to bed…didn’t she hear what they were saying?” Damon’s troubadours stirred the people to... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407237/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406962/posts <p>In 1997, Matt Damon played the part of a janitor who turned out to be not only a math wizard, but one of the most brilliant men you could find anywhere. Trying to impress an arrogant Harvard student, who thought he knew everything, Damon’s character quotes from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. He tells the Harvard kid and a psychiatrist at the hospital he works at that “you’re surrounding yourself with all the wrong fuckin’ books. You wanna read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. That book’ll [explitive deleted] you on your [explative].”</p> Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406962/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406295/posts For Old Timers or fans of old time movies, list your favorite movies made before 1950. Include the date of the movie. Please don't list any movies made after 1950. Thanks! Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406295/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:22:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406139/posts <p>Masamune Date is not an obvious heart-throb for today’s young Japanese women. He has an aristocratic lineage and love of the arts — but he is also a one-eyed ruthless killer. He lost an eye to smallpox and in his relentless pursuit of power is said to have slaughtered his own brother, as well as Christian missionaries, Korean peasants and countless of his compatriots.</p> The Times(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406139/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:08:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405917/posts History serving “a social aim,” rather than chronicling the past in a detached manner, is what readers get in A People’s History of the United States. With any luck, “The People Speak,” the History Channel documentary based on the book that premieres this Sunday, will be, like so many Hollywood productions, unfaithful to the original. Given A People’s History of the United States’ infidelity to facts, this might be the only chance viewers have of seeing anything resembling an accurate retelling of history.Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, transforms into “the closest thing, in the... Big Hollywood (breitbart) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405917/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:14:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405265/posts Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform, an ancient script once common in the Middle East, were unearthed in summer 2009 in an ancient palace in present-day southeastern Turkey... A team led by University of Akron archaeologist Timothy Matney has been excavating the massive mud brick palace, once inhabited by the governor of the empire's Tushhan Province, for more than a decade. The palace is located in Ziyaret... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405265/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:28:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405060/posts There was a Medieval Warm Period (900-1100 AD), in central Greenland at any rate. But we knew that — that’s when the Vikings were naming it Greenland, after all. Next Big Future http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405060/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:41:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405009/posts Ontario, Canada (AHN) - In the first study of its kind researchers detected the stress hormone cortisol in the hair of ancient Peruvians. The study subjects lived between 550 and 1532 A.D. and like us today stress was a part of their daily lives.Researchers say cortisol is released into the body including the hair when an individual is stressed due to real or perceived threats. Emily Webb, a Ph.D. the lead author of the study says, "By studying the lives of people using traditional archaeological methods like surveying and excavation and combining that with new research techniques like sampling ancient... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405009/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:37:14 GMT