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Aug.19.2010
Let's consider if Chihuahua or Coahuila decided to change their name to Texas or to California. (Chihuahua and Coahuila are provinces in Mexico). So Chichuahua changes its name to Texas. It wouldn't even have to declare independence to start some nasty cross border fights.
Now we have a former...
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Jun.13.2010
On this day: June 13th 323 BC King Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon. He was only 32 years old.
To me Alexander the Great is a perfect example of a man who seized the moment - he took the years he had and did something with them. What he did echoes down through the years even to this...
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Feb.22.2010
The Independent has a regular feature in which it asks authors to write about a book which changed their lives somehow. Last week the London newspaper asked me to write the piece. Here it is:
In early 1999, King Hussein fell sick on his return from treatment for cancer in the US. I was the Middle...
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Apr.20.2009
Megas Alexandros and the Royal "We" (Meros A)
How does an empire treat the citizens of conquest during the battle for occupation, the occupation and after the fall of the empire? Isn't it possible to gauge the degree of civilization held by the empire by answering these questions?
From...
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Jan.30.2009
I was watching a documentary on the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great and it got me thinking on our obsession with infamous characters of history. Yes Alexander though a great general/king was like many other in history such as Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Caesar.... arrogant,...
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