Jan 13, 2016 06:46 PM
Seeing Life in Death: Understanding a Pre-Roman Culture
http://www.newhistorian.com/5759-2/5759/
EXCERPT: Learning about the day to day lives of people from ancient societies which left no written history is one of the greatest challenges facing historians and archaeologists. [...] New research [...] has taken a novel approach to this problem by looking into life’s only constant – death. Through analysing ancient bereavement practices from the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy, they have gained an insight into economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs in a region and time that had previously been invisible to history....
Tang Dynasty
http://www.unifiniti.com/2016/01/tang-dynasty.html
EXCERPT: With all of China's (approximately) four thousand years of existence, you would have thought that their golden age would be the Han Dynasty; after all, it's the dynasty from whom the Han Chinese people take their names from. Or maybe the Zhou Dynasty, the longest-lasting Chinese dynasty ever. Perhaps it would be the Song dynasty, the dynasty in which half of the four Great Chinese inventions came about. Or maybe it would be the Ming, the dynasty where Zheng He set out with hundreds of ships, all bigger than any of Columbus' vessels. Unfortunately, if you guessed any of the above dynasties [...] Well... if you chose any of them, you would be wrong. There's another famous dynasty - the title of the post, actually. It's called the Tang Dynasty....
Boxing History And The Catskills
http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2016/01/12...catskills/
EXCERPT: Hundreds of fighters, champions and also-rans alike, have come to the verdant Sullivan County countryside over the years to train for upcoming fights, providing the Catskills with a permanent link to the sport. [...] It has not been recorded when the first professional fighter came to the county to train, but there is lots of information from which to make an educated guess....
http://www.newhistorian.com/5759-2/5759/
EXCERPT: Learning about the day to day lives of people from ancient societies which left no written history is one of the greatest challenges facing historians and archaeologists. [...] New research [...] has taken a novel approach to this problem by looking into life’s only constant – death. Through analysing ancient bereavement practices from the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy, they have gained an insight into economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs in a region and time that had previously been invisible to history....
Tang Dynasty
http://www.unifiniti.com/2016/01/tang-dynasty.html
EXCERPT: With all of China's (approximately) four thousand years of existence, you would have thought that their golden age would be the Han Dynasty; after all, it's the dynasty from whom the Han Chinese people take their names from. Or maybe the Zhou Dynasty, the longest-lasting Chinese dynasty ever. Perhaps it would be the Song dynasty, the dynasty in which half of the four Great Chinese inventions came about. Or maybe it would be the Ming, the dynasty where Zheng He set out with hundreds of ships, all bigger than any of Columbus' vessels. Unfortunately, if you guessed any of the above dynasties [...] Well... if you chose any of them, you would be wrong. There's another famous dynasty - the title of the post, actually. It's called the Tang Dynasty....
Boxing History And The Catskills
http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2016/01/12...catskills/
EXCERPT: Hundreds of fighters, champions and also-rans alike, have come to the verdant Sullivan County countryside over the years to train for upcoming fights, providing the Catskills with a permanent link to the sport. [...] It has not been recorded when the first professional fighter came to the county to train, but there is lots of information from which to make an educated guess....
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