Photo of the Week: Standart

 

Monarchy and Elections part 4: Poland

Poland is holding elections for both the Sejm and Senate today, October 15, 2023. The monarchist political party Confederation of the Polish Crown will be running in the coalition Confederation Liberty and Independence.

Photo of the Week: Smile

 

Photo of the Week: Favorite Officer

 

Photo of the Week: NOT on Deck

 

Photo of the Week: Iowa Street Cred

It ain't much but it's honest work.

 

Updated book list #9

 Completed:

• The 9/11 Commission Report
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Caught in the Revolution: Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia by Helen Rappaport
• World War I: The Definitive Visual History
• World War II: The Definitive Visual History
• The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History
• The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport
• The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
• The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport
• What If? and What If? 2 - A series of essays by historians on what might have been.
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• America Before by Graham Hancock
• All the Gallant Men by Donald Stratton
• Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
• The Cay by Theodore Taylor
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
• 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
• Creature by John Saul
• The Civil War: A Visual History
• The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
• War and Peace (abridged) by Leo Tolstoy
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Bleachers by John Grisham
• The American Revolution: A Visual History
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In progress:

• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The Vietnam War: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

On the docket:

• The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot (A book I bought between 8th and 9th grades in July 2003 but never actually read.)
• Dark History of Russia by Michael Kerrigan
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild edited by Diana Fuss

Photo of the Week: Candid

 

Photo of the Week: Canvas Slide

 

Photo of the Week: Important Document

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