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Article Jan.12.2012 A Century Before Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, John Wycliffe and Jan Hus Rocked the Catholic Church Published by: Red Room John Wycliffe (1328-1384) When Martin Luther condemned the Church of Rome by nailing his 95 Theses or talking points to the door of a German church in 1517, the Augustinian monk didn’t realize that his act of defiance would split the Christian West between Catholics and Protestants. More than a century earlier, two men came close to achieving what Luther... Continue Reading »	Article Jan.12.2012 Feudalism and the Nation State: The Good News About the Black Death Published by: Red Room Boils or "buboes" gave the Bubonic Plague its name. The pandemic or global epidemic known as the Black Death had repercussions that changed history and still affects the world today. The bubonic form of the disease, caused by fleas that bit plague-infected rates then transferred the disease by biting humans then regurgitating the bacterium into the wound. Called... Continue Reading »
Article Jan.11.2012 Spain’s Trojan Horses: How the Old World Conquered the New Published by: Red Room Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) Horses, disease and technology allowed a band of less than 1,000 Spanish adventurers under the brutal command of Hernán Cortés managed to subdue an empire of 60 million Aztecs in Mesoamerica in the early 16th century. Within 50 years of the Europeans' arrival, 90 percent of Native Americans had... Continue Reading »	Article Jan.10.2012 If the Outbreak of World War I Had Been Announced in a Press Release Published by: Red Room UP photo: The Archduke Franz Ferdinand EXTRA!!! Austrian Archduke Slain in Sarajevo by Serb Nationalist! Regional Conflict Looms June 28 (United Press), SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina By Frank Sanello, UP correspondent Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este and Kaiser Franz Joseph's heir apparent, was shot and killed today by Gavrilo Princip, 19, a... Continue Reading »
Article Jan.06.2012 From Lenin to Hitler to Vladimir Putin: Economic Theory Replaces Theology in the 20th Century Published by: Red Room (Previously on Red Room: Early Christian Heresies: When Doubt Was a Burning Offense) According to Will and Ariel Durant among other historians, economic theory replaced religion as the prime cause of international conflicts in the 20th century. From Korea to Cuba, the Cold War’s ideological battle between two Manichaean opposites, the economics of... Continue Reading »	Article Jan.06.2012 Early Christian Heresies: When Dissent Was a Burning Offense Published by: Red Room Darwinian selection “selects” or favors aggressive males. A successful hunter-warrior protected his family or tribe while bringing home the bacon — meat from a woolly mammoth or saber-toothed tiger. Evolution favors and perpetuates man’s aggressive impulses. Women in prehistoric times unknowingly did evolution’s bidding as well. They gathered wild grains and... Continue Reading »
Article Jan.05.2012 The Heroic Life and Horrific Death of the Swedish Aristocrat Who Loved Marie Antoinette Published by: Red Room Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755-1810) If Count Axel von Fersen hadn’t existed, the Swedish diplomat and war hero might have been invented by the authors of Gothic romance novels. The richest man in Sweden and son of a general, Fersen was also “dazzlingly good-looking, tall and slim with a melancholy air,” according to Marie Antoinette’s biographer,... Continue Reading »	Article Jan.03.2012 Death in Venice, Grand Hotel, & The Rules of the Game: Classics That “Predicted” the First and Second World Wars Published by: Red Room Dirk Bogarde and the object of his affections in the 1971 film version of Death in Venice Two films and a novel have achieved varying degrees of classic status and critical praise because among other reasons they all eerily “predicted” or anticipated World War I or II. All three works earned greater resonance and critical kudos because of their glimpse of... Continue Reading »
Article Jan.02.2012 Tsars Peter III and Paul I: Victims of the Worst “Press” in History Published by: Red Room Tsar Peter III, 1728-1762, was murdered by his wife, Catherine the Great's lover. Their son, Tsar Paul, 1754-1801, was murdered by his son, Alexander I. With the possible exceptions of Lucrezia... Continue Reading »	Article Dec.31.2011 Hitler’s Heroes: Whatever Happened to Max Schmeling and Emil Jannings? Published by: Red Room Emil Jannings (1884-1950) Max Schmeling (1905-2005) Jannings may be best remembered as the star of the 1930 film, The Blue Angel, opposite Marlene Dietrich. Film buffs may also recall that Jannings was the first to win the Best Actor Oscar in 1929 for two films, The... Continue Reading »

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"The Autobiography of Frau Adolf Hitler" available in paperback ($19.95) at http://www.amazon.com/The-Autobiography-Frau-Adolf-Hitler/dp/1477581723/.... KINDLE ($9.99) available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E78B9S Some readers found the chapters of the...

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Emma, Madame Bovary, Cousine Bette, War and Peace, Day of the Locust, 1876, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, Daisy Miller, The March of Folly, Dr. Faustus

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