Monthly Archives: December 2010

Fifth Down: A Note on Sports History

Posted on December 12, 2010 by nathanalbright

Today marked the fifth game I am aware of that could be called a “fifth down game” in American football.  I will go over that particular incident in a little bit, but first I would like to provide some history … Continue reading →

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Personality Theory and the Humanist Dilemma

Posted on December 12, 2010 by nathanalbright

While reading the book Please Understand Me:  Character & Temperament Types [1], I was struck at the way in which the book’s defense of personality theory and the need to understand where others are coming from, and especially its consideration … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Please Understand Me: Character & Temperament Types

Posted on December 12, 2010 by nathanalbright

Please Understand Me:  Character & Temperament Types, by David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates This is the sort of book that some people will absolutely love, some people will loathe, and few people will read in its entirety, cover to cover, … Continue reading →

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Today In History: December 11, 1941, Hitler Declared War on the US

Posted on December 11, 2010 by nathanalbright

Though a complete list of Hitler’s blunders would be too long for any history blog, even this one, today in history, 69 years ago, Hitler made a serious blunder by declaring war against the United States shortly after the attack … Continue reading →

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Spoils of War: An Examination of The Treatment of Captive Women in Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Posted on December 11, 2010 by nathanalbright

Throughout history, one of the most tragic fates of any woman was to be captured in warfare because the treatment of female prisoners by victorious armies has been nearly uniformly barbaric.  Nonetheless, the Bible contains within it a remarkable law … Continue reading →

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The Curious Connection Between Jane Austen and Military History

Posted on December 10, 2010 by nathanalbright

Though Jane Austen spent nearly her entire life in the shadow of war, from the time just before the American Revolution through the Napoleonic Wars, the relationship of Jane Austen to military history is something that is rather unexamined.  After … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Somalia: The Missed Opportunities

Posted on December 10, 2010 by nathanalbright

Somalia:  The Missed Opportunities, by Mohamed Sahnoun This short book (80 pages, including a lengthy appendix containing the UN resolutions about the Somali crisis, which takes up about a quarter of the book), is a grim and technical description of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lincoln At Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President

Posted on December 10, 2010 by nathanalbright

Lincoln At Cooper Union:  The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, by Harold Holzer This book corrects what is a curious and unfortunate lacuna in the historical record about Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, and that is the absence of a substantial … Continue reading →

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Somaliland Update: Somaliland President Prepares For Official Visit To China

Posted on December 9, 2010 by nathanalbright

Reporters at the Somaliland Globe have reported that Somaliland’s president, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo is preparing early next year to pay “the largest ever official visit” made yet by a Somaliland delegation to China, at the invitation of their government [1].  … Continue reading →

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At What Price Reconciliation: Lessons From Stephen Douglas

Posted on December 9, 2010 by nathanalbright

Stephen Douglas is known mainly today as the great, and ultimately unsuccessful, debate partner of Abraham Lincoln.  He is the hero of many revisionist historians, who view him as the “Great White Hope” of having prevented the Civil War, whose … Continue reading →

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