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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Attention Span History</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700</lastBuildDate><item><title>Trebia Trasimene Cannae and Zama</title><link>https://blog.trentpalmer.org/trebia-trasimene-cannae-and-zama.html</link><description><p>What are the four major Battles of the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Punic_War" target="_blank">Second Punic War</a>?</p>
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<p>If you said, "Trebia, Trasimene, Cannae, and Zama", you are correct!</p>
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<h3>Prologue</h3>
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<p>In 218 BC, Carthaginian General Hannibal, with an army of 40,000
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and more than 30 war elephants, crossed the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees" target="_blank">Pyrenees Mountains</a>,
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then crossed the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne" target="_blank">Rhone River …</a></p></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><p><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly" target="_blank">Hillbillies</a></em>
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are so called because their
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<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people" target="_blank">Ulster-Scots</a></em>
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Ancestors supported King William III during the Williamite War.</p>
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<h3>Ulster</h3>
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<p>You may be familiar with current events in Northern Ireland. This history goes back to
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a time when Scots from Southern Scotland and Northern England colonized
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<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster" target="_blank">Ulster</a></em>
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which is Northern Ireland.</p>
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<h3>Scottish Marches …</h3></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><p>Who were the Veneti? This is not an easy question to answer.</p>
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<h3>Baltic Veneti</h3>
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<p>The <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti" target="_blank">Vistula Veneti</a></em>
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were called <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends" target="_blank">Wends</a></em>,
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by German-speaking people. But another theory is that <em>Veneti</em> is a diminutization
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of <em>venus</em>, as per Latin origins. And for further confusion, Slavs living
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near Germanic settlements were also called …</p></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><p>"You Guys!" was an insult. But this expression was transformed into a term
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of endearment, in America, by the working class. Because that is what the
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working class do.</p>
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<h3>Gunpowder Plot</h3>
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<p>You are probably familiar with the
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" target="_blank">Gunpowder Plot</a>,
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in which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes" target="_blank">Guy Fawkes</a>,
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attempted to blow up Parliament on 5 …</p></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><p>Have you heard of <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3NtcDdgDLlnptu72CWBxWM" target="_blank">Lohengrin</a>?
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It is a German Opera written and composed by
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner" target="_blank">Richard Wagner</a>
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in 1850. I happen to think that German Opera is more
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entertaining than Italian Opera, but enough about me.</p>
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<h3>King Ludwig II</h3>
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<p>Which brings me to
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria" target="_blank">King Ludwig II of Bavaria</a>.
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If I understand …</p></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><p>There were three type of battles in Europe in the Middle Ages:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#raids">Raids</a></li>
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<li><a href="#sieges">Sieges</a></li>
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<li><a href="#field-battles">Field-Battles</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p>There were two types of soldiers in Europe in the Middle Ages:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>cavalry</li>
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<li>and infantry.</li>
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</ol>
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<h3 id="raids">Raids</h3>
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<p>Infantry tended to not be used in raids, because horses had
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the advantage in speed and mobility.</p>
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<h3 id="sieges">Sieges</h3>
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<p>Cavalry …</p></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> |