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How long, ignorant, will you love ignorance? .. (Proverbs 1:22) Today we will deviate somewhat from the topic of studying the military affairs of the indigenous population of Central America during the years of the Spanish conquest. The reason is trivial. Past publications again caused a number of comments, well, let's say, containing

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“… Loosen the shackles of untruth, untie the chains of the yoke, and release the oppressed to freedom, and break every yoke; Share your bread with the hungry, and bring the poor who wander into the house; when you see a naked man, clothe him, and do not hide from your soul mate.”(Isaiah 58: 6) As you know, revolution is nothing but

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“I passed the field of a lazy man and past the vineyard of a poor-minded man: and behold, all this was overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone fence collapsed. And I looked, and turned my heart, and looked and learned a lesson: sleep a little, take a little nap, a little

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"And I went to the angel and said to him:" Give me a book. " He told me: “Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your womb, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey. " (Revelation of John the Evangelist 10: 9) Now let's talk about the ancient codes of the Aztecs and Maya in more detail. Let's start with the "Grolier Codex" - manuscripts

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If we once again look at the knights from the Bayesian Canvas and the miniatures from the Maciejewski Bible, it is not at all difficult to notice that, although the changes in their equipment are undoubted, new helmets have appeared, that they began to wear multi-colored surcoats over their armor, in general the whole figure of the knight is initially bright and

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“And I saw that the Lamb had removed the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four animals, saying, as it were in a thunderous voice: go and see. I looked, and, behold, a white horse, and on him a rider with a bow, and a crown was given to him; and he went out victorious, and to conquer "(Revelation of John the Theologian

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On VO, questions are often asked about the specifics of the work of historians and archaeologists, and it makes sense to start talking a little about this. Because it is often really quite difficult and unpleasant. For example, imagine that you are an archaeologist and are digging in the ground in the hot sun, and even in

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“Prepare for war, rouse the brave; let all the warriors rise up. Beat your plowshares into swords and your sickles into spears; let the weak say: “I am strong.” (Joel 3: 9) Well, now that we have become acquainted with written sources of information (except for artifacts in museums) about life

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After the defeat of the Crusader forces at the Horns of Hattin in 1187, a little over a hundred years passed before they were finally expelled from the Holy Land. Another Christian power in the East also had a hard time. We are talking about Byzantium, which was attacked from both the West and the East and which had no one to attack

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Usually the name Troy is associated with the city, which, as everyone knows, was ravaged by the Achaeans. Well, the blind man Homer sang this act of violence and vandalism in poetry that spoiled the mood of more than one schoolboy who studied the Greek classics. I thought so too, until I ended up in the city of Prague, which also has its own

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“Beware, every one of your friends, and do not trust any of your brothers; for every brother stumbles another, and every friend slanders. " (Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 9: 4) Today it has become fashionable to talk about color revolutions. Despite the fact that the concept of the revolution itself has stuck in the head of many

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“Their tongue is a deadly arrow,” he says slyly; with their mouths they speak friendly with their neighbor, but in their hearts they build coats for him. " (Book of the Prophet Jeremiah 9: 8) All revolutions, especially if they are "colored", have the same structure. Like any other social structure, it has the form

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“And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the teaching and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6: 1) After the October Socialist Revolution, several new children's and youth publications also appeared in Penza. In many ways, their appearance was due to the rise of social life

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“We were already like you. And you will also be like us.” (Inscription on the tombstone) When you travel in a foreign country or countries on a comfortable tourist bus, you don't need to write about a light breeze blowing pleasantly at you at a good speed because in the cabin it

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"… and they will burn their skins and their flesh and their filth in the fire …" (Leviticus 16:27) pyramids, which would be very problematic. The enemy had to be defeated in

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As you know, in a war, a lot is decided by chance. After all, it so happened that a German observer officer, while the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was parked in the port of Montevideo, looking through the rangefinder, mistook the English heavy cruiser Cumberland for the battle cruiser Renaun! But how is he

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War at all times has been a difficult, bloody and dirty business, that is, it was the legalized murder of one's neighbors, covered with a veil of various verbal nonsense, arising from the inability to solve the matter peacefully. However, then, during the Thirty Years' War, things worsened by the fact that the war

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"… for sinning deliberately and by simplicity," (Book of Ezra 45:20) Anti-communism and anti-Sovietism, as systems of views aimed at condemning the communist and Soviet ideology, its political goals and statements, were formed not spontaneously, but purposefully, starting with 1920s. In our

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“Since they sowed the wind, they will also reap the tempest; he will have no bread in the stump; grain will not give flour; and if it does, strangers will swallow it "(Book of the Prophet Hosea: 8: 7) The color revolution is by no means" soft power ", as it is often said about it. Not at all. Rather, it is a set of tools for

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I personally have always disliked that information of generally useful value is in one place, and people who may be interested in it are in another. The people themselves are partly to blame for this. For example, they talk (and write!) About the ancient history of Russia, but they did not open the "Archeology of Russia" in 20 volumes

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"If there is among you … a man or a woman who … will go and serve other gods, and worship them, or the sun, or the moon, or all the heavenly host … then stone them to death" (Deuteronomy 17: 2-5). Earthly life was full of worries, Let now, at the first abusive call, give Himself for

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“Whatever you bind on earth will be tied up in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven” (Matthew 16:19). I’ll say straight out that I am not a religious person. And it would be strange for someone who has been teaching cultural studies for many years to get carried away with religion (and before that he taught history for ten years

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“… Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, and they do not understand; and the prophecy of Isaiah is coming true over them, which says: hear with your ear, and you will not understand, and you will see with your eyes, and you will not see”(Gospel of Matthew 13: 13,14) As already noted, an important role in the training of propaganda cadres was assigned

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We will destroy the whole world of violence to its foundations, and then … ("Internationale", A.Ya. Kots) We continue to publish materials of Ph.D., associate professor O.V. Milaeva, dedicated to the theme of the upcoming anniversary of the October Revolution. The principle is this: she writes, I edit her materials. Accordingly, it is published “at

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“On the first road to go - to be married; On the second road to go - to be rich; On the third road to go - to be killed!”(Russian folk tale) We continue to publish chapters from the monograph“The Poisoned Pen”and, judging by the responses, these materials arouse keen interest in the VO audience. On

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An old castle passing from hand to hand If we follow the example of the American writer Mary Dodge, who called Holland the "Land of Oddities" in her novel "Silver Skates", then everyone, probably, will be able to give his equally capacious characterization to any other country. That's just how much she

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A variety of "things" are a source of information for the historian. These are artifacts that have come down to us from time immemorial and preserved in private collections and museum collections, finds of archaeologists obtained by them in the dust and dirt of excavations, these are ancient manuscripts - torn papyri from Egypt, silk scrolls from

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Duel of female gladiators of Achilia and the Amazon. Bas-relief from Halicarnassus. (British Museum, London) It just so happened, purely biologically, that the main goal of human life on planet Earth is … no, just do not tell me that this is labor for the good of the Fatherland. No, there is a more important thing and that is … reproduction. That

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“Therefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy, but do not forbid speaking in tongues; only everything should be decent and decorous”(First Corinthians 14:40) Optimism in articles about life in the USSR reached its peak in the pre-war 1940, when the main word in all materials about

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The castle outside, the castle inside No one knows what the Hluboká castle was like in the 13th century, when it had a tower surrounded by a wall. It is only known that it stood on the site of the modern main tower of the castle with a clock. Then in the XV century. it was rebuilt in the late Gothic style. Its defenses have improved

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On the pages of VO, we have already written more than once about what a powerful weapon PR is when used skillfully. And who, if not us, should write about it, since we have been teaching it since 1995, and not only teach it, but also practically apply it in life and work at the Department of Philosophy and Social

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People and a castle Any castle is … an "artificial cave" for more or less civilized people, since the uncivilized lived in natural caves. But any house is, first of all, people living in it. These are their characters, their actions, their history. For example, balconies always catch my eye

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When you travel in a foreign country by bus, and the guide tells the group something about the places that you pass, it is very important to have time to connect what is at stake with the views outside the window. Or it may be like this: “Here is Mount Tabor in front of you, on which there was a fortified camp of the Hussites of Jan ižka

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Life in the castle However, isn't it interesting to continue acquaintance with it and find out how people lived in it, let's say, at the end of the same XIX

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Some time ago, several articles about the cultures of the Copperstone and Bronze Age were published here on VO, but then the informational "feeding" of the topic came to an end, and the publication of articles on this topic was suspended. We talked about the Copperstone and Bronze Age on the island of Cyprus and the grave

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Last time we only slightly touched the ancient Minoan civilization. Today we will consider it in more detail and, of course, we will start with the chronology, which was proposed by Arthur Evans at the beginning of the 20th century, and then was repeatedly refined. In his opinion, there were early-, middle- and

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“… As I have thought, so it will be; as I have determined, so it will take place”(Book of the Prophet Isaiah 14: 24-32) And it so happened that on October 18, on their next birthday here on VO, many of his regulars began to congratulate me and I thought how good it is that there is a feeling of gratitude human property

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So, the most important conclusion regarding the emergence of the Minoan civilization is this: the early Minoan culture is not directly related to the Neolithic culture of Crete, but was brought by newcomers from Asia, from the east, through the lands of Anatolia. In Mesopotamia, for example, there are numerous analogues of the Minoan

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"From now on .. I will live forever! Hey, Devil, follow me! And my strength is endless! And let the world know that my name is EDWARD HYDE!" (Good Doctor Henry Jekyll, after the first taking of a miraculous drug) Are there processes that absorb a person in his thoughts and activities in which a person lives

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And now, dear visitors of the VO website, we will offer you a story about what Crete is today. It is clear that only the ruins of ancient palaces and museums remain on it from the ancient Minoans. However, if you are seduced by stories about Crete's past, decide to go there