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This riveting 72-year journey through modern history is packed with mankind’s amazing advancements in technology, medicine, and exploration, along with accounts of the world’s inevitable wars, famine, and natural disasters. The author punctuates the compelling historic chronicle with personal recollections—some of them near-death experiences that slam home the fragility of human existence.

The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies.

The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the...

From warrior queens to King Arthur, this epic collection explores the tribes, rulers and civilisations of Britain's Iron Age In the first millennium BC, the Iron Age arrived in Britain, bringing with it huge technological and social changes. New civilisations arose, the landscape was transformed...

As you study the African myths, legends, and folklore through this guide, you will find that there are so many gods and goddesses, and so many different versions of certain stories, that it will blow your mind. The intricate myths in this book have been lined up and collected to help you understand some of the earliest, most ancient beliefs from those living on the African continent. Some have been influential in our day, and some have been completely forgotten except for vague traditions that have been passed on from one generation to the next.

Apocalyptic Crimes - episode 1 - Ron Kramer and Felix Brooks Felix and Ron discuss chapter one of Ron's new book, Apocalyptic Crimes.“It is 90 Seconds to Midnight”: Nuclear Weapons, Apocalyptic Harms, and State Crime.

In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, cofounder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story. These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American history...

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism.

Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims.

Before we knew anything else, we had to decide what mattered. This is the story of that decision. History 101 is a time-bending, mind-bending deep dive into the very idea of history itself — how it started, who told it, what got erased, and why it still shapes everything we believe about ourselves. From firelight myths to Mesopotamian propaganda, medieval scribes to Enlightenment idealists, textbook wars to TikTok historians, this book tracks the strange evolution of how humans record the past — and how those records reflect the present more than we like to admit.

Now abridged for young people, Flags of Our Fathers is the unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U. S. flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and...

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the audiobook with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced on our world.

Radio Veteran Ron Bourke Chats with Brad Thursday Mornings from 6.45 on Radio KLFM

Ron's Amazing Stories is a weekly podcast. We play classic short stories, old time radio and much more. Do you have a story that you want to tell? Ron will read it on the show or you can tell it for yourself! Also, we do interviews with authors, radio personalities, actors and even an NBA all-star. Tune in each week to find out what are Ron's Amazing Stories!

Features interviews with four survivors of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that carried the atomic bomb to Tinian Island, eventually to be dropped on Hiroshima. On the Indy's return trip to the Philippines, she was hit by two torpedoes from Japanese submarine and sunk in 12 minutes. Due to communication fouls ups, no one knows the ship is lost at sea. After 4 days in the ocean, the crew of the Indianapolis was discovered by accident and a rescue begun. Of the 1195 men aboard ship, only 316 men would survive. 879 men would die in the water. It's the worst sea disaster in U. S. Naval ...

The Tides That Tie Two islands. Two countries. One unbreakable bond.The Tides That Tie explores the extraordinary connection between Beaver Island, Michigan, and Arranmore, County Donegal, Ireland—two communities officially twinned and bound by history, heritage, and heart.Hosted by Kevin Green and Ron Gregg, each episode dives into the stories, traditions, and challenges that shape life on these islands. From fishing heritage to emigration to celebration, we share voices from both sides of the Atlantic, bringing to life the people and events that keep this transatlantic friendship ...

People new to the Netherlands share their personal stories about expectations, experiences and dreams for the future

Tune-in to Evangelist Brother Minister Ron Davis Every Sunday Live at 12:00 PM Eastern New York USA Time on Tune-In Radio 1590 AM WFBR the Kush Edifying Ministries - Edifying your Mind and Feeding your Spirit.We, the Kush Edifying Ministries, seek to free all peoples from ignorance and misinformation about the Holy Scriptures, especially those who are descendants of the kidnapped Africans brought to America (Deut. 28, Joel 3; Ezek. 30:9-10). We, the Kush Edifying Ministries believes the whole world has been led astray by the evil one using deception and misinformation (Rev. 12:9; 1 John 5:19)....

Forged in the fire of a childhood addiction to mystery, trivia, and answers to questions that are seemingly never asked.From History, to Mystery, missing persons to the conspiratorial aside. Throw in some eschatology and intrigue, and maybe something interesting comes out the other side.But generally, I'm appropriating the Genre of "Historical Intrigue."I can be reached at: boxnumberseven@yahoo.com

Immigration can be such a loaded and divisive issue. There is a lot of heated rhetoric around this topic and more than a little misunderstanding. This show will present the personal stories of people in St Louis who are from every corner of the globe. In addition to personal testimonies, you will hear about events from local ethnic communities, as well as information from the home countries of these New Americans! Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL https://newstalkstl.com/stories-of-new-americans-with-ron-klutho/