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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Attention Span History</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800</lastBuildDate><item><title>Ideology Of World War One</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/ideology-of-world-war-one.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;How did ideology contribute to World War One? It did not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;None of the extant ideological movements of the time were a factor in
causing World War One. Even &lt;em&gt;ethnicity&lt;/em&gt;, which is the opposite of ideology, played only a
very small role.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This blog post is a response to the …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-12-25:/ideology-of-world-war-one.html</guid><category>WWI</category><category>Communism</category><category>Democracy</category><category>Imperialism</category><category>Ethnicity</category><category>Podcast</category></item><item><title>Xmas</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/xmas.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Where does the word &lt;strong&gt;Xmas&lt;/strong&gt; come from?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Early Christians used many symbols such as the Chi Rho, the
Ichthys, the Anchored Cross, and the Sator Square.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Chi Rho&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho" target="_blank"&gt;Chi Rho&lt;/a&gt;,
&lt;span style="font-weight:bold"&gt;&amp;#x2627;&lt;/span&gt;
as explained in this
&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUZdV7xL_Ds&amp;amp;t=594s" target="_blank"&gt;YouTube Video&lt;/a&gt;,
is a symbol composed by overlaying Chi and Rho, the first two Greek …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-12-09:/xmas.html</guid><category>Christmas</category><category>Pompeii</category><category>Sator</category><category>Ichthys</category><category>Chi Rho</category><category>Anchored Cross</category><category>Symbolism</category></item><item><title>Trebia Trasimene Cannae and Zama</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/trebia-trasimene-cannae-and-zama.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;What are the four major Battles of the
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War" target="_blank"&gt;Second Punic War&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you said, "Trebia, Trasimene, Cannae, and Zama", you are correct!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Prologue&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 218 BC, Carthaginian General Hannibal, with an army of 40,000
and more than 30 war elephants, crossed the 
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees" target="_blank"&gt;Pyrenees Mountains&lt;/a&gt;,
then crossed the
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" target="_blank"&gt;Rhone River …&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-10-18:/trebia-trasimene-cannae-and-zama.html</guid><category>Rome</category><category>Carthage</category><category>Hannibal</category><category>Elephants</category></item><item><title>Hillbillies</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/hillbillies.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly" target="_blank"&gt;Hillbillies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
are so called because their
&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people" target="_blank"&gt;Ulster-Scots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
Ancestors supported King William III during the Williamite War.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Ulster&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may be familiar with current events in Northern Ireland. This history goes back to
a time when Scots from Southern Scotland and Northern England colonized
&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster" target="_blank"&gt;Ulster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
which is Northern Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Scottish Marches …&lt;/h3&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-09-01:/hillbillies.html</guid><category>Appalachia</category><category>Hillbillies</category><category>Ulster</category><category>Scots-Irish</category><category>King William III</category></item><item><title>Veneti</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/veneti.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Who were the Veneti? This is not an easy question to answer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Baltic Veneti&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti" target="_blank"&gt;Vistula Veneti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
were called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends" target="_blank"&gt;Wends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,
by German-speaking people. But another theory is that &lt;em&gt;Veneti&lt;/em&gt; is a diminutization
of &lt;em&gt;venus&lt;/em&gt;, as per Latin origins. And for further confusion, Slavs living
near Germanic settlements were also called …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-08-07:/veneti.html</guid><category>Wends</category><category>Veneti</category><category>Brittany</category><category>Italy</category></item><item><title>Guideschi You Guys</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/guideschi-you-guys.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;"You Guys!" was an insult. But this expression was transformed into a term
of endearment, in America, by the working class. Because that is what the
working class do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Gunpowder Plot&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You are probably familiar with the
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" target="_blank"&gt;Gunpowder Plot&lt;/a&gt;,
in which &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" target="_blank"&gt;Guy Fawkes&lt;/a&gt;,
attempted to blow up Parliament on 5 …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-08-06:/guideschi-you-guys.html</guid><category>Insults</category><category>Guideschi</category><category>Brittany</category><category>Italy</category></item><item><title>Lohengrin</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/lohengrin.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you heard of &lt;a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3NtcDdgDLlnptu72CWBxWM" target="_blank"&gt;Lohengrin&lt;/a&gt;?
It is a German Opera written and composed by
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner" target="_blank"&gt;Richard Wagner&lt;/a&gt;
in 1850. I happen to think that German Opera is more
entertaining than Italian Opera, but enough about me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;King Ludwig II&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Which brings me to
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria" target="_blank"&gt;King Ludwig II of Bavaria&lt;/a&gt;.
If I understand …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-07-29:/lohengrin.html</guid><category>Opera</category><category>Franks</category><category>Magyars</category><category>Mongols</category></item><item><title>Battle In The Middle Ages</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/battle-in-the-middle-ages.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;There were three type of battles in Europe in the Middle Ages:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#raids"&gt;Raids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#sieges"&gt;Sieges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#field-battles"&gt;Field-Battles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were two types of soldiers in Europe in the Middle Ages:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;cavalry&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;and infantry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;h3 id="raids"&gt;Raids&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Infantry tended to not be used in raids, because horses had
the advantage in speed and mobility.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="sieges"&gt;Sieges&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cavalry …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Trent Palmer</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blog.trentpalmer.org,2021-07-27:/battle-in-the-middle-ages.html</guid><category>Battle</category><category>CrossBow</category><category>Sieges</category><category>Raids</category></item></channel></rss>