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	<title>a dangerous business &#187; Historical Context</title>
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	<description>&#34;It&#039;s a dangerous business going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don&#039;t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.&#34; -J.R.R. Tolkien</description>
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		<title>Historical Context: Ho Ho Ho!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 07:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What trip to Turkey would be complete without a visit to the birth place of Jolly Old Saint Nick! Yes, as we all learned in Christmas carols sung every year by the fireside, the man who has come to be known all around the world as Santa Claus was Greek. Born in the Greek colony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Context: Language Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The afternoon before we left London for Amsterdam we realized that it was going to be the last chance for us to conveniently purchase any English literature for the next four months, so we swung by a bookstore and picked up a few books to tide us over (thinking specifically of the 6 internet-less days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Context: The Pony Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we travelled East along Highway 50, we passed several historic small towns which listed Pony Express stations as part of their claim to fame. The Pony Express was established in April 1860 and shortened the travel time of mail from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast to 10 days &#8211; a shockingly short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Context: Mongols and Christopher Columbus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading &#8220;Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World&#8221; by Jack Weatherford, a fantastic book on the history of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. As with all empires, the Mongol dynasty had its high point and its eventual collapse &#8211; and just like Rome (and other empires) the Mongol dynasty had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Context: Lawrence of Arabia and Motorcycle Helmets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently watched the film Lawrence of Arabia as part of our ongoing movie research. The film starts with the death of Lawrence as he&#8217;s zooming through the English country side on his motorcycle. According to Wikipedia: &#8220;A dip in the road obstructed his view of two boys on their bicycles; he swerved to avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Context: Mongols and Assassins</title>
		<link>http://adangerousbusiness.com/2009/05/27/historical-context-mongols-and-assasins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for our time in Mongolia, we&#8217;ve listened to the audio book of &#8220;Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men&#8221; by Harold Lamb and have almost finished reading &#8220;Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World&#8221; by Jack Weatherford. Both are great books, though I would recommend Weatherford&#8217;s over Lamb&#8217;s. That may be due [...]]]></description>
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