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Category Archives: HISTORY
King Pepin III (also Pippin III, Pépin le Bref) of the Franks
This will continue the story about the end of the Merovingian dynasty. Charles Martel died on 22 October A.D. 741 in the present-day Picardy section of France. His remains are buried at Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. He divided his … Continue reading
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The Vascones
Mithridátēs is the name given to the kings of several kingdoms in the ancient world. It does get confusing when you run across people named Mithridátēs I of Pontus, who was also Mithridátēs III of Cius, whose descendants included both … Continue reading
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The Merovingian Dynasty
Introduction So far, we’ve spoken about the Celts, which take us back several hundred years before the common era, the Roman period in Gaul, the development of post-Roman Franks, and the migrations of the Visigoths into the Iberian Peninsula. Now … Continue reading
The Franks
We previously learned that Indo-European people, known as Celts, occupied widespread areas of Central Europe, eventually expanding into areas of present-day Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, France, Northern Italy, Switzerland, lower Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. These people occupied most of … Continue reading
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The Celts
When most Americans think of Celts, they think of basketball players in Boston. Everyone else in the world knows that the Celts were an early tribal people who dominated the British Isles before the arrival of the Romans. Several hundred … Continue reading
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Biblical Math and Other Impossibilities
What makes studying antiquity difficult is that two thousand years ago, people used different calendars. Not only that, but Jewish calendars were different from those of the Romans. There are four types of calendars: solar, lunisolar, lunar, and seasonal. We … Continue reading
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DOWRIES & KNOTS
Five hundred years ago, most people died within twenty-five miles of their birthplace. In those days, men and women awakened with the dawn and retired with the dusk. At night they slept and made babies. In the daytime, they pursued … Continue reading
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Project Blue Book and other Fairy Tales — Part 2
The Robertson Panel In July 1952, after hundreds of sightings over the previous few months, a series of radar detections coincident with visual sightings were observed near the National Airport in Washington, D.C. Following much publicity, the Central Intelligence Agency … Continue reading
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Project Blue Book and other Fairy Tales — Part 1
The Sightings On 19 September 1961, Barney and Betty Hill returned to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when they encountered an alien spaceship. The couple was not the first to sight, report, or claim contact with beings from outer … Continue reading
The Indefatigable Julius Cæsar — Part 2
The Rebellion The outbreak began among the Carnuti (the “horned ones”) when two chieftains led their retinues into the town of Cenabum (present-day Orléans) and massacred Roman tradesmen. Vercingetorix, a young Arverni nobleman previously favored by Cæsar, followed their example … Continue reading
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Searching History 