Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Nabataean Incense and the Goddess Al-Uzza

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Watching the series Sacred Sites of the World , I learned of the city of Petra in modern-day Jordan with its Nabataean  Temple of the Winged...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Spartacus's Wife: The Woman Behind the Revolt

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Jean Simmons with Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus" (1960). It was sadly fitting that on the Day our Democracy Died we also lost ...
Monday, December 2, 2019

"La Cucaracha": The Female Mexican Soldier

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Most of us know  the tune  as one sung by  Pancho Villa 's soldiers: La cucaracha, la cucaracha ya no puede caminar por que no tiene, p...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

New Archeological Finds Point to Ancient Cannabis Use, Despite Prejudice of Some Scholars

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“For as long as there has been civilization, there have been mind-altering drugs,” begins an article in the 4/20/18(!) edition of Science ...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Juno/Hera and the Asterion Plant

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Juno by Rembrandt (1665) The month of June is named for the Roman Goddess Juno, known as Hera in Greek mythology. Hera's devotees ...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Un-Debunking the Queen Vic Myth about Marijuana

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Queen Victoria with five of her nine children Several authors of late (e.g. James H. Mills in  Cannabis Britannica )  have sought to d...
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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Queen Caroline Murat and the Treason of Images

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Caroline Bonaparte was born in 1782, some 13 years after her brother Napoleon. At the age of 17, she married Napoleon's General Joachi...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Martha Gellhorn, Leonard Bernstein, and the Ballerinas

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Looking up war correspondent and third wife to Ernest Hemingway Martha Gellhorn after seeing the spotty-at-best 2102 film Hemingway and Ge...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Viking Völvas and Cannabis Seeds

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In 1903, near the Oseberg Farm in Norway, a farmer discovered a Viking ship built around 820 AD that had been buried for 11 centuries. The ...