Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Drone cold truth. By Ralph Peters.

Drone cold truth: Sparing innocents, not terrorists. By Ralph Peters. New York Post, January 6, 2013.
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Dershowtiz: “Racist And Bigoted To Say That Guns Are Quintessentially American.”

Dershowitz: “Racist And Bigoted To Say That Guns Are Quintessentially American.” Real Clear Poltics Video, January 7, 2013.
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Dynastic Asia. By Kishore Mahbubani.

Dynastic Asia. By Kishore Mahbubani. Project Syndicate, January 3, 2013.
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Netanyahu the Palestinian. By Alex Joffe.

Netanyahu the Palestinian. By Alex Joffe. Project Syndicate, January 2, 2013.
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Arab States of Uncertainty. By Shlomo Ben-Ami.

Arab States of Uncertainty. By Shlomo Ben-Ami. Project Syndicate, January 4, 2013.
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The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide. By Mehdi Khalaji.

The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide. By Mehdi Khalaji. Project Syndicate, December 31, 2012. Also find it here.
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Ending India’s Rape Culture. By Naomi Wolf.

Ending India’s Rape Culture. By Naomi Wolf. Project Syndicate, December 31, 2012.
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Egyptian Cleric Abu Islam Ahmad Abdallah Explains Why He Ripped Up the Bible.

Egyptian Cleric Abu Islam Ahmad Abdallah Explains Why He Ripped Up the Bible. MEMRI TV Video Clip #3624, October 1, 2012. Find transcipt here.

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A Woman’s Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children. By Umm Osama.

Umm Osama, Wife of Hamas MP Khalil Al-Hayya: A Woman’s Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children. Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza), December 2, 2012. MEMRI TV, Video Clip #3703. Also find it here. Find transcript here.

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Failure of Empathy? Megyn Kelly interview with Dr. Keith Ablow.

Jarring New Video Shows Ohio Student Joking, Laughing About Rape. Fox News Insider, January 8, 2013.

Student in online video regrets comments in Ohio rape case. Failure of Empathy? Megyn Kelly interview with Dr. Keith Ablow. America Live with Megyn Kelly, January 8, 2013.

We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists. By Dr. Keith Ablow. FoxNews.com, January 8, 2013.
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Wading into the Middle East morass. By Jackson Diehl.

Wading into the Middle East morass. By Jackson Diehl. Washington Post, January 6, 2013.
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Will Hagel Learn from Eisenhower’s Mistakes? By Michael Rubin.

Will Hagel Learn from Eisenhower’s Mistakes? By Michael Rubin. Commentary, January 7, 2013.
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Iran Gets the Message on Hagel. By Alana Goodman.

Iran Gets the Message on Hagel. Alana Goodman. Commentary, January 7, 2013.
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Open Societies at War: A Comparative History, 1939-45. By David Hackett Fischer.

Open Societies at War: A Comparative History, 1939-1945. By David Hackett Fischer. Video. History News Network, January 6, 2013.

The George C. Marshall Lecture in Military History. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 5, 2013.

Also find it here.

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Remains of prehistoric Britain. Photo Gallery.

Remains of prehistoric Britain. Photo Gallery. The Telegraph.
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Single girl in the UAE. By Sarah Bladen.

Single Girl in the UAE. By Sarah Bladen. The Telegraph, January 4, 2013.
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Post-Mortem. By Laura Hollis.

Post-Mortem. By Laura Hollis. Townhall.com, November 8, 2012.

Open letter to Laura Hollis: This is why you lost. By sujigu. Daily Kos, December 29, 2012.
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Brennan’s Quest for a Moderate Hezbollah. By Michael Rubin.

Brennan’s Quest for a Moderate Hezbollah. By Michael Rubin. Commentary, January 7, 2013.
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Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence. By Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly.

Giffords and Kelly: Fighting gun violence. By Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly. USA Today, January 8, 2013.

Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly Launching Gun Control Initiative. By Bob Christie and Brian Skoloff. AP, Huffington Post, January 8, 2013.
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The Siege of Numantia, 133 BC: Sources.

The Siege of Numantia, 133 BC: Sources.

Numantia in Ancient Sources. Attalus: Sources for Greek and Roman History, 322-42 BC. Links to all extant sources.

Appian’s Roman History, Vol. 1, pp. 271-295 (Book 6, Chapters 14-15, Sections 84-98). By Appian. English Translation by Horace White. Loeb Classical Library. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1912.

Also find it here, here, here, and here.

Also find Appian’s Roman History at:

Perseus Digital Library. Gregory R. Crane, editor-in-chief. Tufts University.

Livius: Articles on Ancient History. By Jona Lendering (a Dutch historian).

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World. By Bill Thayer.


Drama:

Numantia: A Tragedy. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by James Y. Gibson. London: Kegan, Paul Trench and Co., 1885. Also find it here and here.


Historical Essays:

The “Fiery War” and the Siege of Numantia. By Salah. Historum, July 21, 2012.

The Celts in Iberia: An Overview. By Alberto J. Lorrio and Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero. e-Keltoi: Journal of Inderdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Volume 6: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula.

Cervantes’ Numancia and Imperial Spain. By Willard F. King. MLN, March 1979.

The Sacrifice Theme in Cervantes’ “Numancia.” By William M. Whitby. Hispania, May 1962.

Amity and Enmity in Cervantes’s La Numancia. By Sabatino G. Maglione. Hispania, May 2000.

 Numantia. Wikipedia.

 Celtiberians. Wikipedia.

 Arevaci. Wikipedia.
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