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Julius Caesar, The Final Moments
It is 44 BC. The streets of Rome are booming with activities, merrymaking, and revelries. The common citizens are rejoicing the triumphant return of their valiant Caesar. Caesar is returning after defeating Pompey’s sons, a decisive, monumental victory. The people are ecstatic and jubilant. They are so intoxicated in the celebration that they disregard their chores and engage in decorating Caesar’s statues all along the city. They garland his busts, they sing his praises, they are exhausting all means of expressing their admiration and regard for the charming and benevolent warrior. His victory in Spain meant more spoils, more money, more resources, and that meant Rome’s prosperity. Th...
Mighty Falls - Fall of Egypt, Greece and Rome
History is the tale of the past. It holds the treasures of an ancient people who walked, lived, cried, laughed, and tasted the nectar of life thousands of years before us. They hold the elixir of unfading memory. Reading a book of history is like opening a Pandora’s Box, it may contain untouched, unheard-of jewels, and precious gems that only the most curious eyes can discern. Life and society as we know it today is a model developed from the ancient forefathers. They built the edifices on which we continue to build our past, present, and future. This series tells the tales of three major ancient civilizations, the Roman Empire, the Greek civilization, and the Egyptian Civilization. Rome w...
Brave Bessie Queen, The Flying Black Ladybird
Fired by the passion to fly, Bessie Coleman beats all odds to become the first Black woman pilot. In the early 1900s, an 18-year-old black girl arrived on the streets of Chicago, dreaming of flying someday. Born into poverty and racial discrimination, Bessie Coleman had an indomitable spirit even as a child. From the cotton fields of remote Texas village to the aviation school in France, Bessie Coleman’s extraordinary story is riven with struggles, poverty, rejections, and racism. Buy the book to know how Bessie Coleman, a pioneer aviator who survived segregation, traveled hundreds of miles away from her home and defied all racial prejudices to conquer the skies, at a time when a Black woman didn’t dare to dream.
Fall of Greece
Around 4000 years ago, on the shores of the Aegean Sea, a civilization was burgeoning. In just about a millennia, it flourished as far as Spain in the west and India in the east. This is the story of a people known for their might and arrogance, famed for their bravery and chutzpah, hailed for their glorious past and eminent ancient civilization. The ancient Greek history is nothing short of a legend. To know about the ancient Greeks, we should hark back to 508 BC, almost five centuries before Jesus Christ was born. A particularly odious night was beginning to unfurl. The streets in the small city of Athens were burning; there was chaos everywhere. The people had taken to the streets all gun...
Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Death March, and I Smiled
Eddie Jaku was one among the few thousands who miraculously survived the death camps. When Eddie first entered Auschwitz, he was only a 20-year-old. He didn’t have a name or identity for the next seven years he spent in the notorious death camp. His entire personality, individuality, and identity were relegated to a 6 digit number-172338. Now, 100-year-old, Eddie is anything but bitter or remorse. On the contrary, he is the self-proclaimed happiest man on earth. Eddie remembers vividly how he was crammed into the barracks, made to sleep on the wooden planks, ten men in a single row, with not a stich on any of them. Eddie didn’t know if he would survive the night, let alone live to a cent...
The Samurai Who Defeated Miyamoto Musashi
This book portrays the story of the unquenchable fighter Miyamoto Musashi. The Ronin Samurai, who acquired the skills by himself, founded his Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu, the Kenjutsu school. The seventeenth century swordsman was not just a warrior, but a philosopher, painter, architect who had his interest in psychology, zen, Buddhism and so on. Through his records, written as books, Musashi conveyed the entire truth behind his success and a few thoughts regarding life as well. Musashi demonstrated the ideal Shugyosha's life as being a guy who is in harmony with nature, the unconquerable combatant, the ultimate wanderer, the philosopher of life and sense. The focus of this document is on the life of Musashi and his fight. It also recounts the tale of Muso Gonnosuke, the sole warrior who defeated the hero, Musashi. Gonnosuke, the founder of Shintō Musō-ryū, was the only ideal rival for Musashi. Both are descended from Samurai families; one grew up as a Ronin, and the other, a trained man, agrees to a duel. See what happened next… How did they come into combat? What led Musashi to fail? Was that a tragic fall of the hero?
Fall of Rome
Rome was a city like none other, a superpower unchallenged in its grandeur, unique and unrivaled in its savagery, the magnificent and proud civilization that shaped the rest of the world. For more than five centuries, the Roman Empire was the uncontested and nonpareil leader of the world, her hegemony supreme, and her mighty army invincible. In her glorious days, it was predicted that the Roman Empire was an immortal civilization, the sun would never set on its skies, and its glories would remain untouched by the hands of time. But, all such paeans of praise were just that, mere hollow words without a kernel of truth in them. the Roman Empire was ripped apart, her sons slaughtered, and her h...
Miyamoto Musashi - The Iconic Samurai, In a Fly
Japanese martial arts are the envy of the world. Japan has proudly gifted the world with some of the best martial arts, is home to the most legendary swordsman of the world, Miyamoto Musashi. An iconic fighter, a samurai like none other, Musashi has fought as many as 60 duels by the time he was 30 years of age, all victorious. An audacious Musashi fought his first duel when he was still a child and that too against an opponent who was an adept samurai in one of the top-most schools in Kyoto. Having fought all through his childhood and adult life, Musashi retreated to a cave to live a life of privation and isolation. It is here that he birthed the epic The Book of Five Rings. A masterpiece to...
Fall of Egypt
The first relic to welcome a visitor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is an ancient stone with strange inscriptions on it. There is a good chance that nobody will give two hoots about this unimpressive antique stone from the past. After all, just a few paces away stands the extravagant tomb of the mysterious pharaoh Tutankhamun. But it is the most treasured and revered piece of antiquity that Egyptologists had been in search of for hundreds of centuries. It goes by the name the Narmer Palette and archeologists dare to believe that it is Egypt’s birth certificate. For ages, archeologists and Egyptologists have dedicated and sacrificed their entire lives excavating and exhuming ruins that lay...
Black Elk White
If you were told that the Native Americans in the US and the Tibetans of Asia have something in common, will you believe it? In all probability, the answer will be a big no. The indigenous people of America who have now become too barbaric and atavistic to an American, are the aborigines of the land. The Lakota people are just one of the tribes in the Native Indian lineage. Famous among them is the spiritual teacher and guide Black Elk. Born in present-day Wyoming, Black Elk needs no introduction to Native Americans and fortunately, many among the non-Natives are also making an effort to know and understand Black Elk and his contributions to the Native community. This book tells the story of...
