Archives for August 2011

August 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Reign of Catherine the Great

This series has six easy 5 minute installments.Introduction"No sovereign since Ivan the Terrible," says Rambaud, "extended the frontiers of the

Today's installment concludes Maccabaeus Liberates Judea,our selection by Josephus.If you have journeyed through all of the installments of this

When, therefore, the generals of Antiochus' armies had been beaten so often, Judas assembled the people together.Continuing Maccabaeus Liberates

There came also to them auxiliaries out of Syria and the country round about, as also many of the renegade Jews;Continuing Maccabaeus Liberates

When Mattathias had thus discoursed to his sons and had prayed to God to be their assistant and to recover to the people their former

This series has five easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe noble-minded Judas Maccabaeus was the hero of Jewish independence -- the

Today's installment concludes Painting the Sistine Chapel,our selection by Charles Clement.If you have journeyed through all of the installments

The second part of the ceiling, by much the most considerable, was finished in 1512.Continuing Painting the Sistine Chapel,our selection from