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It's time for some !Spoilers! for Act One of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (discuss, with footnotes, please only write on one side of the paper at a time). The play was recorded at The White Bear Theatre on Tuesday 12th December 2023. We know we said Robert would be doing briefer Spoilers episodes, but that clearly didn't happen... If you’d like more on this play, there are exploring sessions galore on the YouTube. All our rehearsals, dress run, and rough live mix are on the patreon feed from £5 tier or above. The full cast audio adaptation edit of this ...

Alibaba. Tencent. JD. Pinduoduo. Run down the list of China’s most valuable companies and you’ll find, for the most part, that they’re all e-commerce companies—or at least facilitate e-commerce. The sector created giants: Alibaba grew from just 5.5 billion renminbi of revenue in 2010 to 280 billion last year. But how did Chinese e-commerce firms shut out their foreign competition? How did they build trust in the system? Lizhi Liu answers these questions in her latest book, From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China (Princeton University Press: 2024), where she ...

The second part of this look at Grant's Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo. This episode follows the 13th Light Dragoons from Portugal in 1810 to India in the 1820s. Many thanks to the kind volunteers who read the extracts for this episode: George Williams, Philip Holden, Jonathan Durbin, Barry Millar, Dominic McBrien, Diogo Vasconcellos, Paul Allford, and Paul Phillips.Two errata: It should be Church Ashton in Shropshire, not "Castle Ashton" and John Cousley was the oldest man in No.3 Troop (not Thomas, as I say here). Contact: waterloopodcast@outlook.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...

Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (de Gruyter, 2023) offers an accessible repository of edited Coptic magical texts. The book is a careful and thorough edition and philological study of thirty-seven distinct Coptic manuscripts, covering a wide range of magical applications—from love spells, to curses, to exorcisms, and healing invocations. The volume makes available a rich set of evidence of everyday concerns of love, justice, strife, and health in late ancient Egypt to readers outside of the niche community of scholars of Coptic language. You will ...

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Follows the naval adventures of a British officer during the Napoleonic Wars, highlighting his leadership and bravery. The series combines historical context with maritime action.

What many people don’t realize is that Zionism is not a monolithic term. From its inception there were rigorous debates about the nature and direction of the movement? Thinkers had argued about some of the fundamental questions around Israel. Where would a future Jewish state be located? What language would they speak? Should Israel come about through a slow evolution or a radical revolution? In his book, Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement (Academic Studies Press, 2024), Yithak Conforti situates us in these debates, zeroing in on the leaders of what ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a deadly fire which took place in an overcrowded New York garment factory in 1911, and which changed fire safety in factories forever...Fascinating Horror covers the true stories behind some of history's greatest disasters. This podcast is an audio version of the YouTube channel of the same name. The channel is made possible by supporters on Patreon and YouTube channel members. HUGE thanks to everyone who supports this channel!LINKS: 🔗► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FascinatingHorror► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fascinatinghorror► Get ...

Nesse episódio, os historiadores Sérgio Amaral e Lewy Mota, debatem sobre o Genocídio Armênio. Prepare-se para uma jornada impactante pela história de um povo resiliente e sua luta pela sobrevivência. Neste episódio, desvendamos as camadas da milenar história armênia, mergulhando em suas origens, cultura e o florescimento sob diferentes domínios. Contamos como a ascensão do Império Otomano transformou radicalmente o destino dos armênios, levando-os a um caminho de perseguição e marginalização.Você vai entender as tensões que culminaram em um dos capítulos mais sombrios da ...

Christina and I discuss her mom’s journey with cancer and how Christina has navigated her death. We also discuss all the loss she has witnessed as a paramedic, my brother’s car accident and my own experience of loss, culty health beliefs (like Christina’s experience of Scientologists), the things people say during grief that are not helpful, feeling angry and “irrational” feelings after loss, the role of paramedics in choosing when someone dies, organ donation, and the spiritual aspects of loss and death. We also talk about not giving all your trust to doctors, how to help people ...

The purpose of Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective (American Society of Missiology, 2024) is to describe how the North Korean refugee understanding of evil can shape missionary practice in the Korean Peninsula. The central research question guiding this study is, How do North Korean Christian refugees describe evil based on their lived experiences? Twelve North Korean Christian refugees were interviewed. The findings indicate that North Korean Christian refugees understand evil as the oppression of the vulnerable, primarily due to human activities, and as exemplified through ...

📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we’ll dive into the story of the Trial of Socrates, a defining moment in ancient philosophy and Athenian history. https://patreon.com/HistoryinSlowGerman?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Dr. Alan Garfinkel is joined by Chris Webster to discuss a very unique rock art panel discovered at Little Petroglyph Canyon in the Coso Range north of Ridgecrest, California. It’s a creation story 2000 to 4000 years old and has some interesting elements. They discuss the image on this week’s episode. What do you think the elements represent?Transcripts and SourcesFor rough transcripts and sources for this episode, head over to https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/rockart/143ContactDr. Alan Garfinkelavram1952@yahoo.comDr. Alan Garfinkel’s WebsiteSupport Dr. Garfinkel on ...

In 2013, while working as a contractor at the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden leaked an extensive collection of top secret documents, an act of defiance that, today, still reverberates throughout US intelligence and international relations.

The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary entries and interviews from 2000 to 2023, the Dutch author--an anthropologist and peace activist--chronicles the spontaneous reactions of his Palestinian children and wife navigating the challenges posed by curfews and checkpoints. Problems of Palestinian school life are shown from the perspective of teachers and students. Against the background of Israeli occupation and settlement building, the intricacies of Palestinian culture in its ...

Send us a textWe're going back to Disneyland! A few months ago we talked about Imagineering the Haunted Mansion (if you haven't yet, go listen to it! Link to it >> HERE)! Today we are covering another of the legacy rides in Disneyland, The Pirates of the Caribbean and New Orleans Square! We talk about how it started, and how it's going..Weekly Catch Up ends at 10:50.SHOW NOTES:https://mouseplanet.com/disneyland-1967-part-one-pirates-of-the-caribbean/5800/ https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/pirates-of-the-caribbean-ride-history https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/...

Kochane przez pokolenia schronisko na Hali Kondratowej nie istnieje. Zamiast pachnącego drewnem budynku z duszą – nowy obiekt z bloczków i blachodachówki, imitujący gont i kamień. Co się stało z projektem Bogdana Laszczki? Dlaczego konserwator zabytków zgodził się na tę „przebudowę”?Czy w samym sercu Tatr naprawdę nie da się już ochronić drewnianej tradycji? Ten film to opowieść o górskim dziedzictwie, wspomnieniach pokoleń i pytaniu: czy naprawdę musimy zamieniać oryginał na atrapę? 📍 Mówimy o: historii schroniska na Hali Kondratowej, architekturze ...

In this fascinating episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on Kit Klarenberg of The Grayzone to discuss the NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, its relevance to today, and the delusion of US air power! We are also lucky to be joined by Nemanja Lukić as a guest host for this episode. In addition to being a keen analyst (and former guest of Guerrilla History), Nemanja personally lived through the bombing campaign. This is a terrific discussion with plenty of history, analysis, and connections being drawn between this event of the past and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This is an ...

Christine Guldbrandsen og Petter Lavern Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🌍 Journey through history! From the transformative Great Fire of London 🔥 in 1700, the radical Paris Commune 🇫🇷 in 1871, and the cultural clash of the Scopes Monkey Trial 🐒🔬 in 1925, to WWII's Fall of France 🇫🇷⚔️ and the geopolitical shifts of the Six-Day War 🇮🇱 in 1967. Also revisiting the tragedy of the Heysel Stadium Disaster ⚽💔 in 1985 and the economic crash of the Dot-com Bubble 💻📉 in 2000. A rich tapestry of human events shaping our world! 🌟