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Five Common Historical Misconceptions Explained
Published January 28, 2013 Ancient Rome , Europe , History , Napoleon , Vikings , Western Civilization Leave a CommentTags: Christopher Columbus, Lady Godiva, Vomitorium
Myths and Heroes
Published October 12, 2012 Ancient Greece , Anglo-Saxons , Archeology , Art , Celts , Classics , Culture , Europe , History , Interesting , Western Civilization 1 CommentTags: Argonauts, Jason and the Argonauts, King Arthur
From the pbs.org website:
Host Michael Wood takes an epic journey, following in the path of the Queen of Sheba, searching for Shangri-La in Tibet, untangling the tales of King Arthur’s Celtic Brittan and tracing the trek of Jason who sought the Golden Fleece.
More info here.
Wagner’s Ring Cycle
Published September 11, 2012 Art , Europe , Germany , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Opera, Richard Wagner
From pbs.org:
Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, will air on Great Performances at the Met, September 11-14 in primetime each night on PBS stations, as a major television event.
The operas – Das Rheingold, Die Walkűre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung — will be preceded on Monday, September 10 at 9 p.m. by the airing of award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke’s documentary Wagner’s Dream, which chronicles the backstage story of the creation of this ambitious new staging.
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Published September 6, 2012 Art , Classics , Culture , Design , Emblems , Engineering , Europe , History , Italy , Masterpiece , Military , Military History , Renaissance , Science , Symbols , Technology , Tradition , Warfare , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Medici
Waterloo
Published August 27, 2012 Europe , France , Military , Military History , Napoleon , Western Civilization Leave a CommentTags: Waterloo
From wikipedia:
Waterloo (Russian: Ватерлоо) is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and is famous for its lavish battle scenes.
It stars Rod Steiger (portraying Napoleon Bonaparte) and Christopher Plummer (portraying the Duke of Wellington) with a cameo by Orson Welles (Louis XVIII of France).
The film includes some 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as extras (“it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world”). Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes.
Malmaison Virtual Tour
Published August 14, 2012 Art , Culture , Design , Emblems , Europe , France , History , Military History , Napoleon , Tradition , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Malmaison
The Battle Of Austerlitz
Published June 24, 2012 Europe , History , Interesting , Military History , Napoleon , Warfare , Western Civilization Leave a CommentTags: Austerlitz, Borodino, Moscow, Napoleonic Wars, Trafalgar, Waterloo
From the kultur.com website:
This stunning program features dramatized reconstructions and ‘eye-witness’ accounts of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous battle, plus Russian archive film footage from Bunderchuck’s masterpiece War and Peace. With 3D graphic mapping techniques and delightful period imagery, ‘The Battle of Austerlitz’ is a memorable account of a bloody battle which had a profound effect on the course of European history.
Other Napoleon related DVDs
The Napoleonic Wars
The Battle Of Trafalgar
The Battle Of Austerlitz
The Battle Of Borodino
Napoleon’s Road to Moscow
The Battle of Waterloo
Roger Scruton – Why Beauty Matters
Published June 11, 2012 Art , Beauty , Culture , Design , Europe , Interesting , Music , Society , Technology , Tradition , United States , Unusual , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentMark Steyn explains Multiculturalism
Published June 5, 2012 Europe , Multiculturalism Leave a CommentRevealing the lost codex of Archimedes
Published May 31, 2012 Ancient Greece , Europe , History , Interesting , Knowledge , Science , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentTags: Archimedes
Giuseppe Nogari “Archimedes (c.287-212 BC)”
From TED.com:
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others.
See the video here.
