THE ODYSSEY OF RENÉ DU CHASTELET DES BOYS – PART 14
(This post is a continuation of The Odyssey of René du Chastelet des Boys – Parts 1 through 13. If[…]
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Author: Adam Nichols
I'm an associate professor with the University of Maryland, in the U.S. I spent twenty years teaching for the University of Maryland’s European division, in England, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, and downrange on military installations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I've also lived and worked in Australia, China, and Canada. I presently live in the U.S.
THE SUM OF A MYRIAD OF INDIVIDUAL HUMAN LIVES
On a July morning in 1627, people on Heimaey, the largest of the Westman Islands off Iceland’s south coast, spotted[…]
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NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 1
The content of this week’s post comes from a book, published in the early nineteenth century, in which the author[…]
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NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so[…]
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NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 3
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 2. If you haven’t done so[…]
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NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN ALGIERS – PART 4
(This post is a continuation of Narrative of a Residence in Algiers – Part 3. If you haven’t done so[…]
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CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARIUM
Something a little different this week… Living in the twenty-first century as we do, with access to Google Earth, Google[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE HISTORY OF ALGIERS – PART 1
The city of Algiers wasn’t always a powerful corsair capital. In fact, it wasn’t a particularly important city at all[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON THE HISTORY OF ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan on the History of Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t[…]
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FATHER PIERRE DAN ON BRINGING CAPTIVES HOME
If you were captured by Barbary corsairs, and you came from a Catholic country—and you weren’t rich—your best chance for[…]
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