Have you ever been to Universal Studios Island of Adventure in Orlando, Florida? Well, thanks to my parents (THANK YOU MOM & DAD), my kids got to spend the day there as part of their Christmas vacation. The main attraction for my little geeklets was, of course, Hogwarts/Hogsmeade section of the park. We’re all big… Read more A Day of Hogwarts and Dinosaurs
Welcome to Niki Incorvia, who is here on my blog to tell us all about her first book, Monarchial Roles: Redefining Religion and Family under Henry VIII and Mary I! Henry VIII and Mary I are a bit of a mystery to us in the twenty-first century, their lives and personalities are crafted together from… Read more Monarchial Roles by Niki Incorvia
I am currently at my parent’s house in Eastern Kentucky, where love is abundant and internet connections are sparse. Prior to that, I was frolicking throughout Florida and costal Georgia with my children and my parents. I’ll tell you more about that odyssey in a Honda Odyssey when I return to civilization, AKA: the Land… Read more Christmas Eve and Sunny
On this day in 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack that would rip through the American psyche in a way unequaled until the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. The next day my paternal grandfather, Henry Cornelius, signed up the US Navy and served in World War II. He wanted, he said, “a… Read more Pearl Harbor Day and My Grandfather
I have Asperger’s syndrome. I like things that make sense. You know, if A = B, and C = B, then A is equivalent to C because they both equal B. People’s opinions, especially their sociopolitical opinions, do not follow this at all, and it drives me bananas because I cannot grasp how they cannot… Read more Illogical Perceptions and Reactions
Just a reminder that if you haven’t bought or read The Jezebel Effect … it makes an awesome Christmas gift
Some of the students and staff at Cambridge University suggest the school should remove famous historian David Starkey from a university promotional campaign, since Starkey keeps saying racist things. For instance, during “an appearance by the historian on BBC Newsnight in 2011 when he referred to Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech as being right… Read more David Starkey, Bluff King Hal, UKIP, and Donald Trump
Islamic extremist terrorism didn’t just pop up overnight because it was a natural outgrowth of the Muslim religion. Islamic terrorism is the result of really bad colonialist, money-grubbing meddling by the West in the hopes of keeping rich Western mitts on those big ol’ oil fields under Arab lands. The foreign policies of the West… Read more How Failed American Foreign Policy and the Iraq War has Fueled Terrorism in the Middle East.
Terrorists are monsters, but no one KNOWS they are a monster. Almost everyone creates a script inside their head justifying their own cause and demonizing others. The Nazis told themselves that the Holocaust was “right” because the “Jews were a danger to Germany”. The soldiers and CIA handlers who tortured innocent Iraqis told themselves they… Read more Terrorists WANT Anti-Islamic Backlash
Yesterday my first offering to the Made Global’s “History in a Nutshell” series hit the shelves and I am happy down to my toes. It’s entitled Henry VIII’s Health in a Nutshell and it’s available in paperback and ebook format. It also has a highly complimentary blurb. I really like highly complimentary blurbs. I’m needy… Read more Book Release!