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Blood
Mexican
English
Irish
Education
BA History
BS Political Science
Graduate work in History, Political Science and Spanish
Teaching Certifications
Religion
Orthodox Ultramontanist Catholic
Passions
Teaching
Guitar
Classical and Latin American Music
Solo backpacking
Camping
Books
Ancient Historians
Favorite Foods
Kung Pao Chicken
Enchiladas de Pollo
Beans and Rice
Favorite Book
Mere Christianity
Favorite Theologians
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
James Akin
Karl Keating
Fulton Sheen
Michael Voris
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Favorite Painters
Goya
Norman Rockwell
Ilya Repin
Jacques-Louis David
Favorite Movies
Tombstone
Casablanca
The Searchers
Troy
Alexander
The Big Sleep
Favorite Composer
Saint-Saëns
Favorite Opera
Cavalleria Rusticana
Favorite Ballet
Copelia
Favorite Symphony
Mozart's 40th
Favorite Guitarists
Danny Gatton
Johnny Hiland
Raphael Rabello
Forrest Lee, Jr.
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Favorite Author
Frank McLynn
Greatest Physical Accomplishments
Backpacking Alone to Choquequirao
Favorite Amendment
The Second
Best Country
The United States of America
Cool Places to Hang Out
Peru
Guatemala
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
Costa Rica
Most Wicked Regimes
China
North Korea
Cuba
Iran
Zimbabwe
Venezuela
Sudan
Syria
Burma
Most Influential Civilizations
Ancient Hebrew
Classical Greece
Republican Rome
Medieval Catholic
English
American
Most Beautiful Women
Argentina
Israel
Persia
Venezuela
Brazil
Most Admired Organizations
Catholic Church
US Marine Corps
Boy Scouts
Most Depsised Organizations
United Nations
World Bank
IMF
European Union
United States Congress
Planned Parenthood
the Federal Reserve
The Greatest Evil in the World
Abortion
History's Greatest Medical Discoveries
Penicillin
Aspirin
Ether
Vaccination
History's Greatest Physicians
Hippocrates
Galen
Harvey
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
Joseph Lister
Carlos Finlay
Ignaz Semmelweis
Louis Pasteur
History's Most Complete Human Being
Julius Caesar
History's Most Inexplicable Human Being
Joan of Arc
History's Most Memorable Anti-Christs
Lenin
Stalin
Mao
Hitler
Nero
Diocletian
Caligula
Julian the Apostate
Ashurbanipal
Napoleon
Timur
Kim Il-Sung
Kim Jong-Il
Ashurbanipal
Nebuchadnezzar II
Cheops
Idi Amin
Antiochus Epipahnes
Herod the Great
Karl Marx
Pol Pot
Rasputin
Maximillian Robespierre
Margaret Sanger
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Ahuitzotl
Ivan the IV "The Terrible"
Voltaire
Anti-Christs Among Us
Ahmadinejad
Castro
Peter Singer
Hugo Chavez
Kim Jong-Un
Evo Morales
Hugh Hefner
Robert Mugabe
Languages Worth Speaking
American English
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Arabic
Latin
Finest Writers in the English Language
Evelyn Waugh
V. S. Naipaul
Cultures That Have Produced The Finest Romantic Poetry
Hebrew
Persian
The World's Worst Poets
Americans
Country That Has Produced the Finest Short Story Writers
Russia
Country That Has Produced the Finest Dancers
Russia
Country That Has Produced the Finest Composers
Russia
Culture That Has Produced the Finest Classical Musicians
Jewish
The Finest Creation of the Human Mind
Summa Theologica
America's Greatest Dead
George Washington
Ben Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Sam Houston
Abe Lincoln
James Garfield
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
Ronald Reagan
The Greatest Singer of All Time
Frank Sinatra
The Greatest Actor of All Time
Lawrence Olivier
The Greatest Poet of All Time
David
The Greatest Artist of All Time
Michelangelo
The Greatest Violinist of All Time
Paganini
The Greatest Dancer of All Time
Rudolf Nureyev
The Greatest Musical Genius of All Time
Mozart
The Most Influential Opera of All Time
Carmen
The Greatest Political Philosophers of All Time
Plato
Aristotle
Augustine
Aquinas
Hobbes
Locke
Ibn Khaldun
Montesquieu
Bodin
Madison
Jefferson
Hamilton
Hayek
The Most Wicked Political Philosophers of All Time
Marx
Rousseau
Machiavelli
Nietzsche
The Greatest Gathering of Political Philosophers of All Time
The Constitutional Convention 1787
The Greatest Political Documents of All Time
The Declaration of Independence
The American Constitution
The Federalist Papers
Aristotle's Politics
History' Most Overrated Artists
Picasso
Van Gogh
Da Vinci
Gauguin
History's Most Overrated Writers
Norman Mailer
Gabriel García Márquez
Boccaccio
Sartre
Melville
Mark Twain
The Most Important Novel Ever Written
1984
History's Most Overrated Guitarist
Jimi Hendrix
History's Finest Guitarists
Les Paul
Chet Atkins
John McLaughlin
Segovia
the Romeros
History's Most Bizarre Civilization
The Maya
History's Most Bizarre Writers
Kafka
Borges
History's Most Expansionist Civilization
Islam
History's Only Successful Example of Socialism
The Inca
History's Only Successful Example of Communism
Sparta
History's First Philosophical Description of Communism
Plato's Republic
History's Greatest Errors
Darwinism
Communism
Socialism
Atheism
Market Failure
the Enlightenment
Liberation Theology
Social Justice Theory
Sexual Liberation
Multiculturalism
Sustainability Economics
Coexistence
Multilateralism
World Government
Relative Morality
Overpopulation
History's Greatest Hoaxes
Piltdown Man
Global Warming
Peak Oil
La Leyenda Negra
Predictions of the Coming Apocalypse
Melting Ice Caps
Present Day Silliness
Anthropomorphism
Recycling
Earth Day
Disappearing Polar Bears
Metrosexuality
Transgenderism
Political Correctness
Diversity
The Greatest Cataclysm in History
The Eruption of Thera (c. 1400 BC)
Greatest Cities of the World
Paris
Seville
Rio
Buenos Aires
Cuzco
Rome
Greatest Cities in History
Ancient Rome
Constantinople
Granada
Athens
Bagdad
Tenochtitlan
Alexandria
Babylon
Thebes and Memphis
Nineveh
Kiev
America's Most Depraved Cities
Washington, DC
Las Vegas
Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Seattle
Portland
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Detroit
Most Horrific Civilizations of the Past
Aztec
Nazi Germany
Assyria
Imperial Japan
USSR
Khmer Rouge
Greatest Road Builders in History
Ancient Rome
Inca
America
The Greatest Historians of All Time
Moses
Herodotus
Toynbee
Spengler
Will Durant
Gibbon
Polybius
Paul Johnson
Ibn Khaldun
Thucydides
Michelet
Victor Davis Hanson
Huizinga
Burckhardt
Things Worth Studying
History
Philosophy
Mathematics
Physics
Theology
Music
Greatest Gunfighters of the American West
John Wesley Hardin
Wild Bill Hickok
Doc Holliday
Wyatt Earp
Clay Allison
Luke Short
Dallas Stoudenmire
Bat Masterson
Ben Thompson
Kid Curry
Greatest Gunfights of the American West
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Hickok - Tut Shootout
Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight
Luke Short - Jim Courtright Duel
Greatest Criminal Gangs in the American West
The James Gang
The Daltons
The Hole in the Wall Gang
Greatest Indian Fighter in American History
Andrew Jackson
Greatest Indians in American History
Pontiac
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Osceola
Sequoyah
Greatest Bank Robbers in American History
Harvey Bailey
John Dillinger
Pretty Boy Floyd
Jesse James
Greatest American Criminal
Al Capone
History's Most Lethal Militaries
Spartan
Imperial Roman
Spanish Conquistador
American
Assyrian
History's Greatest Captains
Hannibal
Alexander
Caesar
Scipio Major
Subutai
Genghis Kahn
Marius
Joshua
Cortés
Richard the Lionheart
Thutmosis III
Belisarius
Greatest Living Captain
Tommy Franks
History's Most Overrated Captains
Robert E. Lee
Napoleon
Montgomery
Wellington
History's Most Underrated Captains
Epaminondas
George Washington
Hamilcar Barca
Jan III Sobiesky
Alcibiades
Charles XII of Sweden
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
William Tecumseh Sherman
Shaka Zulu
George Patton
Heraclius
Clive
History's Most Impressive Military Achievements
The siege of Tenochtitlan by Hernando Cortés (1520-21)
The siege of Alesia by Julius Caesar (52 BC)
The destruction of the armies of Republican Rome at Lake Trasimene and at Cannae by Hannibal (217-216 BC)
The destruction of the Spartan army by Epaminondas at the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC)
Alexander's siege of Tyre (332 BC)
The Battle of Lepanto (1571)
The destruction of the British army at New Orleans by Andrew Jackson (1815)
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese (1941)
The destruction of the Japanese Imperial Navy by the Americans at Midway (1942)
The defeat of Persia by Athens at Marathon (490 BC)
The destruction of the Persian navy by Athens at Salamis (480 BC)
The defeat of the Canaanite coalition by Thutmosis III at Megiddo (1457 BC)
The Defeat of the South by the Union at Gettysburg and Vicksburg (1863)
History's Most Impressive Military Defeats
The annihilation of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae (480 BC)
The defeat of the Byzantine army by the Turks at Manzikert (1071)
The siege of the Alamo (1836)
Napoleon's march from Moscow (1812)
The extinction of the culture of slavery in the US South by Sherman (1864-1865)
Hitler's defeat at the hands of the Soviets at Stalingrad (1943)
The destruction of the entire class of French nobility by English king Henry V at Agincourt (1415)
The Defeat of the Huns by Rome at Chalons (451)
The Destruction of the Army of the Eastern Roman Empire by the Goths at Adrianople (378)
The English surrender to the Americans at Saratoga (1777)
The destruction of the Muslim armies at Tours by Charles Martel (732)
The destruction of Nineveh by the Chaldeans and the Medes (612 BC)
The Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse (415 - 413 BC)
The Defeat of Russia by Sweden at Narva (1700)
The Destruction of the Roman Army of Crassus by the Parthians at Carrhae (55 BC)
History's Finest Cavalries
The Numidians of Northern Africa (300 BC - 100 BC)
The Plains Indians of the American West ((1730 - 1890)
The Mongols (1200 - 1500)
The Parthians (250 BC - 200 AD)
The Huns (250 - 450)
The Most Terrifying Military Machines on Earth
The USS Carl Vinson
US Marine Expeditionary Unit
The Most Terrifying Military Machines in History
The Macedonian Phalanx
The Spartan Phalanx
The Roman Legion
The cavalry of the Mongolian Khans
The Medieval Knight
B-52
Greatest Empires in History
Ancient Rome
The New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
Inca
Mongolia Under the Khans
Imperial Spain
British
Byzantine
Austro-Hungarian
Hellenistic
Babylonian
Ancient Persian
Islamic Andalusia
Abbasid Caliphate
History's First Empire
Akkad under Sargon the Great (c. 2250 BC)
History's First Polyglot and Multicultural Empire
Assyria
History's Longest-Lived Empire
Rome---1400 years
History's Longest-Lived Civilization
Ancient Egypt---3000 years
Ancient Egypt's Last Pharaoh
Cleopatra
The Strongest Government Known to History
Ancient Rome
History's Most Useless Creation
the Pyramids
Greatest Explorers
Henry Morton Stanley---Africa
Richard Burton---Africa, Asia
John Hanning Speke---Africa
Magellan---the Oceans
Cook---the Oceans
Cabeza de Vaca---the Gulf Coast
Coronado---the American South West
Cândido Rondon---South America
Hiram Bingham---Peru
Percy Fawcett---South America
Marco Polo---Asia
Samuel Baker---Africa
Gene Savoy---Peru
Christopher Columbus---the Caribbean
Federick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens---Central America
Francisco Orellana---the Amazon
David Livingstone---Africa
Roald Amundsen---the Poles
Mungo Park---West Africa
James Bruce---the Nile
Alexander Humbolt---South America
Lewis and Clark---the American northwest
Hanno the Carthaginian---the African coast c. 600 BC
Pytheas of Massilia---England c. 325 BC
Ibn Battuta---Northern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East, Asia
Favorite Beer
Pearl
Favorite Rum
10 Cane
Favorite Whiskey
Maker's Mark
Favorite Adult Beverage
Absolut Kurant Vodka and Tonic with a hint of lime and a touch of bitters