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Entries from August 3rd, 2011

Carmelo Malacrino & Jay Hyams, trans. Constructing the Ancient World; Architectural Techniques of the Greeks and Romans. Getty Publications, 2010.

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Carmelo Malacrino and Jay Hyams, trans. Constructing the Ancient World; Architectural Techniques of the Greeks and Romans. Getty Publications, 2010.
We admire the architectural achievements of the Greeks and the Romans. Carmelo Malacrino’s account of their building technologies can only add to that admiration. He makes the distinction between Greek and Roman for reasons [...]

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Adrian Tinniswood. Pirates of Barbary; Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean. Penguin USA, 2010.

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Adrian Tinniswood. Pirates of Barbary; Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean. Penguin USA, 2010.
The Barbary pirates sailed out of the North African ports of Benghazi, Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis. Adrian Tinniswood’s history of piracy in the Mediterranean also includes the Moorish pirates harbored in Tangier and Sale. In the seventeenth century [...]

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