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Why We Should Let Iran Fight Islamic State

Edit Newsweek 20 Apr 2016
The infiltration of Palestinian territory by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) could draw in American ground troops in our next futile Middle East conflict ... And by supporting Shia movements fighting Sunni radicals as Iran is already doing in Yemen ... Try Newsweek ... The Catholic-Protestant conflict (that ended in the Thirty Years War) began with the Protestant Reformation in the 1520s and lasted until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ... ....

Muslims have been migrating to the US for centuries

Edit LA Daily News 06 Apr 2016
Muslims have been coming to the US for centuries, but you wouldn’t know it by the intense debates that continue to surround the movement of Muslims across international borders. Republican presidential candidates Sen ... 22 terrorist attack in Brussels ... For example, a Muslim man named Estevanico was sold into slavery in the 1520s and brought to the Americas to aid Spain’s exploration of present-day Florida ... Advertisement ....

Hidden Text in England's Oldest Printed Bible Revealed

Edit Yahoo Daily News 24 Mar 2016
Long-hidden annotations in a Henry VIII-era Bible reveal the messy, gradual process of the Protestant Reformation. The handwritten notes were just discovered in a Latin Bible published in 1535 by Henry VIII's printer ... Religious history ... English scholar William Tyndale had nevertheless been working on a translation from Hebrew and Greek since the 1520s, a feat that earned him an execution by strangling in 1536 ... [Family Ties....

Miniature Painting

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
A miniature painting is a very detailed, very small painting. We're talking tiny, but exactly how tiny varies between miniature painting societies around the world ... So, for example, an adult head which is typically 9" wouldn't be painted large than 1½" ... In the 1520s in Europe, miniature portraits started being used used as jewelry, in lockets and brooches, particularly in France and England ... More on Miniatures ... Synonyms ... ....

Is CTE what made Henry VIII kill all those wives?

Edit New York Post 03 Feb 2016
Turns out that the head injury that is the bane of the NFL reaches back further than Pittsburgh Steeler Mike Webster — subject of the film “Concussion” — or running back Frank Gifford.. It goes all the way back to Henry VIII. The king whose erratic behavior (he executed two wives, one more than O.J ... The Tudor king suffered two major head injuries in the 1520s, both due to his vigorous sporting life ... A decade later he reassured wife No ... ....

Constable's The Lock & Museum-quality Works to lead Sotheby's London Old Masters sale on 9 ...

Edit Public Technologies 30 Nov 2015
(Source. Sotheby's Inc) f1d2bbf5-a086-472a-a133-5723b2804c7f.pdf. Press Release. For Immediate Release. London . +44 (0) 207 293 6000 . Mitzi Mina . mitzi.Mina@sothebys.com . Marie-Béatrice Morin . Marie-Béatrice Morin @sothebys.com. New York . Melanie Brister . melanie.brister@sothebys.com ... M ... It is just one of only two depictions of the Madonna and Child painted by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse, in the 1520s and 1530s remaining in private hands....

Here’s The Crazy Story About Thanksgiving You’ve Never Heard

Edit Huffington Post 25 Nov 2015
The Thanksgiving story you know probably goes a bit like this ... In 1614, six years before the Pilgrims landed in modern-day Massachusetts, an Englishman named Thomas Hunt kidnapped Tisquantum from his village, Patuxet, which was part of a group of villages known as the Wampanoag confederation. (Europeans had started visiting the northeast of what is now the United States by the 1520s, and probably as early as the 1480s.) ... ... ....

Everything You Learned About The First Thanksgiving Is Wrong

Edit Huffington Post 25 Nov 2015
The Thanksgiving story you know probably goes a bit like this ... In 1614, six years before the Pilgrims landed in modern-day Massachusetts, an Englishman named Thomas Hunt kidnapped Tisquantum from his village, Patuxet, which was part of a group of villages known as the Wampanoag confederation. (Europeans had started visiting the northeast of what is now the United States by the 1520s, and probably as early as the 1480s.) ... ... ....

Private library of Hebrew writings to be sold

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 13 Nov 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Sotheby's auction house is offering what experts consider the world's most important private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts. Vice chairman David Redden told The Associated Press on Thursday the "glory" of the New York auction is the first printing of the Talmud, from the 1520s in Venice. The 11,000 items going on sale were collected by a London diamond dealer ... 22, including a Hebrew Bible from 1189 ... ....

Talmud: 16th-century edition of the book to be sold by diamond merchant who rescued it ...

Edit The Independent 13 Nov 2015
After realising what the volume really was, Mr Lunzer discovered that the abbey had a complete nine-volume set of the Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg in the 1520s, and that it had ......

APNewsBreak: Private library of Hebrew writings to be sold

Edit Denver Post 13 Nov 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Sotheby's is offering what experts consider the world's most important private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts, collected by a London diamond dealer ... On Dec ... The "glory" of the auction, Redden said, is the first printing of the Talmud in Venice in the 1520s ... ....

10 Things to Know for Friday

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 13 Nov 2015
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday.. 1. KURDISH FORCES ADVANCE AGAINST EXTREMISTS IN IRAQ ... 2. RUSSIA OWNING UP TO DOPING PROBLEM ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... Thousands of items from the world's most important private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts — including the first printing of the Talmud in Venice in the 1520s — will be up for sale in New York. ....

A Taste of Mexico

Edit Jamaica Observer 10 Sep 2015
By dint of Spanish colonists, Mexico lays claim to being the oldest wine industry in the New World. The narrative began around the 1520s when then Governor Hernando Cortés decreed that all farmers plant 10 grapevines a year for every Indian slave on their estate. What might have prevented Mexico gaining advantage from that early start occurred in 1699 ... From then until Mexico's Independence, wine was produced on a small scale ... ....
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