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I was born in Sardinia, and being adopted, grew up in the US. I am married for 25 years, and have two sons, one graduating college and the other soon to start college. I am an ordained priest in a Kemetic religion. I am very interested in holistic health,

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Arts & Humanities > Ancient History Facts about Ancient Egypt: 1 of 20

Egypt has an ancient and varied history, from the time before it was ruled by Kings through its centuries as a Roman province and then as a Moslem nation. The gold mask of Tutankhamun, the grandeur of the Pyramids and Abu Simbel, and the mystery of the Sphinx, are all well-known. Much is also known of those ancient days as a...
Arts & Humanities > Middle Ages The immediate cause of the first crusade: 1 of 9

The First Crusade occurred between 1095 and 1099. It began with the plea from Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus I to the Pope in Rome and the Western nations to send him help against the encroaching Seljuk Turks. It ended when the European Crusaders captured Jerusalem. It seems inadequate to point to one brief clarion call ...
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History Who was Coriolanus in ancient Rome?: 2 of 12

Gnaeus Marcius called Coriolanus lived in the time when Rome, still barely more than a town on seven hills, had just thrown off her rule by kings. This legendary hero is known only from the histories written by Livy, Plutarch, Dionysus of Halicarnassus and some fragments in Appian's Italy. Shakespeare's dramatic life of Cori...
Arts & Humanities > Origins & Firsts in History The history of New York's Central Park: 1 of 3

Central Park today is known as a mecca of green beautya haven from the traffic smells and sounds, a place to forget for a little while the screech of metal and the stresses of life. In the summers automobile traffic is restricted, and bikers, runners, roller-skaters, jugglers, dancers, volleyball players, and people just tak...
Arts & Humanities > Asia, Africa & Mideast History The legacy of Hammurabi to Ancient Mesopotamia and the world: 3 of 8

King Hammurabi is best-known for the Code of Laws he left. While his motives for inscribing almost 300 laws, they provide a window into the social and political life of the Babylonians. Perhaps more importantly for us today, his description of his rule also illustrates that, at the least, he wanted to be understood by both h...
Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Creative inspiration: Where do our ideas come from?: 20 of 50

Creative Inspiration: Where do our ideas come from? Ideas of any kind come from two places: within us, and from around us. So it should be with creative ideas. Novelists are often asked where do you get your ideas? No matter their degree of fame, the answer is generally always the same. I get my ideas from things going on ar...
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History Romulus and Remus: The beginnings of Roman civilization: 7 of 16

Several ancient writers, including Livy and Plutarch, record that Rome was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus. Their story is one of legend and myth, with elements that appear in many other hero-cycles around the ancient world, such as the story of Cyrus the Great, Sargon, Semiramis, even Pope Gregory the Great, and othe...
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History The death of Julius Caesar: 2 of 4

Julius Caesar died, so they claimed, to save Rome from tyrants-and after more than ten years, a civil war and a final battle in Egypt, the Republic of Rome, ruled by a Senate, instead became an Empire ruled by one-man despots. Rome however had a capacity to ask one strong-man to save it from another. Although the details of ...
Arts & Humanities > Asia, Africa & Mideast History Who were the Kassites?: 1 of 2

The Kassite people ruled Babylonia in the longest dynasty of all in the King-List—thirty-six kings over more than five hundred years, from the sixteenth through to the twelfth centuries BCE. They came from the north of Babylonia, [erhaps in the Zagros Mountains of modern Iran, where the arable land bordered the steppes...
Arts & Humanities > US History (Other) Facts about the state flag of New York: 1 of 2

New York is the Empire State, and its flag is symbolic of that pride. Once Dutch, then English, in 1788 after the end of the Revolutionary War, New York was the 11th colony to be admitted into the new United States. Her Great Seal which appears on the flag is the fifth and last form. The Seal was first devised in 1777, the y...