Discovered in 1910, nearly two hundred years after the first excavations at Pompeii, the site later dubbed the Villa of Mysteries contained many finds typical of the ruined Roman city, including the ashen outlines its long dead inhabitants. But a...
Topics: 1910, 1930, 79 A.D., ancient Roman city, Ancient Rome, Ancient Rome Store, animal sacrifice, Ariadne, Bacchanalian mystery cult, Bacchus, cult of Bacchus, Eros, Gladiator Arena Helmet III (Brass), Gladiator Thracian Helmet I, Gladiator Thraex Helmet, gluttonous feasts, Historical Events, History Blog, Hoplomarchus Gladiator Helmet, Initiation Room, Kykeon, Mount Vesuvius, mythology, orgies, pompeii, pompeii villa of mysteries, Roman frescos, Roman god of love, Villa of Mysteries, World History

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December 7, 1941 is the day the attack on Pearl Harbor took place. A day later The United States and Great Britain declared war on Japan. World War two now had its two largest combatants fully engaged. The war would intensify as man’s inhumanity to man.
Topics: 1941, 2nd World War, a date which will live in infamy, America declares war on Japan, congress, December 7, December 8, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, German Luger Pistol, German World War II Helmet Replica - Plain Rim, Germany, Hiroshima, Historic Battles, Historical Events, History Blog, History Today, Hitler, japan, Japan Attacks America, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Military History, Nagasaki, News of the Day 1939-1941 DVD, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor attack, second world war, The Great War, USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, World History, world war 2, World War 2 Store, World War II, World War II - Nazi Hungarian Russian Invasion Money, World War two, WW2, WWII

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It was the fall of 1914 when a heady rumor began to circulate amongst the Allied troops of World War I. In August of the same year, the British Expeditionary Force made its first incursion into German-occupied Belgium, only to find itself greatly...
Topics: 1914, Aleister Crowley, angelic archers on the battlefield, Angels of Mons, Arthur Machen, August 22, Battle of Mons, Black Magic, Brigadier-General John Charteris, British 1912 Cavalry Sword, British Expeditionary Force, Cultural History, first world war, German Picklehaub Helmet, H.P. Lovecraft, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Historic Battles, History Blog, Iain Sinclair, Literary History, Mauser Replica Automatic Pistol - 1896, Military History, mythology, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen King, The Bowmen, The Evening News, Vintage Royal No. 10 Typewriter circa 1914 - 1930s, William Butler Yeats, World History, World War I Store

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On December 1, 1887 the first story about the fictional but historically famous British sleuth Sherlock Holmes was published. The story was “A Study in Scarlet” and first appeared in “Beeton’s Christmas Annual” capturing front page space. The...
Topics: 1859, 1887, 1893, 1930, A Study in Scarlet, arctic, arthur conan doyle, Beeton's Christmas Annual, Boer War, Cultural History, December 1, doctor watson, English History, History Blog, History DVDs, History Store, History Today, Literary History, May 22, Personalities in History, Pop Culture History, replica guns, Replica Swords, scale model kits, sherlock holmes, victorian writers, World History

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Video game systems for the home are a multi-million dollar industry and the current popular consoles from companies like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are technological marvels with games that look more like movies than like video games. The thing all of.
Topics: 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, Allan Alcorn, Atari, Cultural History, History Blog, History DVDs, history of video games, History Store, History Today, Magnavox Odyssey, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nolan Bushnell, pong video game, Pop Culture History, replica guns, Replica Swords, scale model kits, Sears, Sears Tele-Games, Sony, Technology History, video game systems, World History

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