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Comment on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ based on an ancient Irish story by History A’la Carte 11-1-12 « Maria Grace

History A’la Carte 11-1-12 « Maria Grace — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:57:29 +0000

[...] Hamlet was Irish? [...]

Comment on Rome and Han – A Fascinating Comparison by Jon Holtgrefe

Jon Holtgrefe — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:29:47 +0000

I completely agree with your point on wikipedia, although in my personal experience the greater danger from wikipedia is that the information found their is often vague, unspecific, and out of date(especially because of wikipedia’s policy that everything there should be ‘common knowledge’), rather than being actually incorrect in any substantive way. In fact, I am planning on sometime in the next week writing a piece of the uses and pitfalls of wikipedia, specifically looking at it from the point of view of an academic.

If I were writing a paper for a class on a comparison between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty I would never dream of using wikipedia as a source, but I would still probably start their to get some basic information and see where things went from their. I have used wikipedia here mainly because the purpose of this article is as a brief thought experiment or ‘hey, isn’t this interesting’ rather than a full scholarly work. As such I post the wikipedia articles if people would like to take the next step and read this information in greater detail than I went into here. If they wish to get even more in depth and go to the primary sources, wikipedia has a good starting list and would at least provide those interested with a general idea of what they are looking for so they can more easily find it.

In this particular case, there is also the problem with going to original sources in that I do not know Chinese(ancient or modern) and thus could not read the primary sources in their original language(which is always better, of course) and even in translation I do not know enough about China to make an accurate analysis of them.

Comment on Rome and Han – A Fascinating Comparison by Ritesh Kumargupt

Ritesh Kumargupt — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:49:47 +0000

A comparative study in History is the best way to make this so called ‘Boring’ subject intresting. I appreciate you for this work. But I would like to give you a suggestion that for any research work, Please don’t rely only on the contents of wikipedia because I have found many in them unreliable & even incorrect. My style of research is from Original sources, it’s very satisfactory for you and reliable for others. I have written a very revolutionary article in History – “Was Ashoka Greater than Alexander?”. You are most welcome on my blog -

http://www.gloriousindia123@blogspot.in

I invite your comment or criticisms for this. Thank You Jon!

Comment on Evidence Romans Settled Near Tucson, Arizona Hundreds of Years Before Columbus by George Stradtman

George Stradtman — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:43:13 +0000

It’d be interesting to see if there are any DNA studies to show Welsh haplotypes among Native Americans in the area where Madoc supposedly settled, or other haplotypes that would fit possible late Roman settlers around Phoenix.

Comment on Shocking News! Columbus May Not Have Been First to Visit America by Tammy Partridge

Tammy Partridge — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:17:49 +0000

Funny catch for an article on Columbus! I enjoyed your summary. I find the information interesting for a couple reasons. One, it brings John Cabot into the picture. I have not heard of him or this before-at least not on Columbus topics. Two, because of the private financier interest in discovering the new land makes me wonder why the secrecy. Someone had to have known and why not have originally said this instead of teaching us all these years Columbus found the new world? It make me curious to learn more. Well worth time to read your summary and article.

Comment on Shocking News! Columbus May Not Have Been First to Visit America by Chris Rivait

Chris Rivait — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:03:21 +0000

It was definitely a tongue in cheek title for the article. Discovery News reported on this finding as if it was groundbreaking news.

Comment on Shocking News! Columbus May Not Have Been First to Visit America by Elizabeth Sylvester-Gray

Elizabeth Sylvester-Gray — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:11:32 +0000

I hardly think this is “shocking news” as I can remember many years ago in school that there was a debate about Columbus vs Cabot and there was stronger evidence that it was Cabot who got to America first.

Comment on Over 200 Years Later We Can Still Learn From Benjamin Franklin by Edison, NJ Antiques

Edison, NJ Antiques — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:16:32 +0000

I love Ben. He was awesome!

Comment on News on the Ancient World – 4/24 by Jon Holtgrefe

Jon Holtgrefe — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:44:31 +0000

Thank you. Yeah, I thought that story was quite funny. I will be doing one of these news run downs every week pretty much, though I think I need to work on the formatting a bit to make to highlight where stories begin and end better, especially on weeks like this in which there are a lot of news items.

Comment on News on the Ancient World – 4/24 by Edison, New Jersey Antiques

Edison, New Jersey Antiques — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:23:12 +0000

Hello fellow historian!

Excellent post. I would have to agree that moles probably are the best archeologists.