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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Greco-Persian War Leads to Ultimate Greek Triumph

Historical overview:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Persian_Wars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Persian_invasion_of_Greece

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Persian_invasion_of_Greece

I. First Persian Invasion:
Judgement Day at Marathon (45:00)
http://youtu.be/4EYEeITctjg

Marathon Battle (21:53)
History Channel: Decisive Battles
http://youtu.be/ZiOwZ6XWyDQ

Marathon short version (10:37)
http://youtu.be/Cx-XB2eh-pQ

Map:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Marathon_Greek_Double_Envelopment.png

History lesson of events leading up to Battle of Marathon / note that written history of this event is weak, and so different historians take different stances (24:00):
http://youtu.be/wz6ICKqsP08

II. Second Persian Invasion Battle of Thermopolye (1:30:00)--
http://youtu.be/ukhc5SV2mb4

History lesson-
Battle of Thermopolye & Sea Battle of Artemisium (26:00)
http://youtu.be/hID2iXWl_Zk

Map:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Artemisium#/media/File:Battle_of_Thermopylae_and_movements_to_Salamis,_480_BC.gif

III. Sea Battle of Salamis(35:30)
http://youtu.be/HJa3Y6hawO0

History lesson-
http://youtu.be/KwDmcBsrdVE

Note: This is part of a complete series of 38 videos about Greek history (including the other Greco-Persian battles).

IV. Battle of Plataea (9:44)
http://youtu.be/pkQe8efbYDM

History lesson-
Battle of Plataea (16:27)
http://youtu.be/3X-ZjayCARo


V. Battle of Mycale (12:42)
http://youtu.be/HR_M5GsiorE
Google 'Battle of Mycale' for further info.
The history lesson series continues and leads up to the unification of Greece by Macedonian monarch Phillip II and the conquering of the Persian empire by Alexander the Great.

VI. Phillip II of Macedonia (44:21)
http://youtu.be/li2mC1mRu_E

VII. Alexander the Great (2:15:05)
http://youtu.be/DocfrH4dm28

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Discover Magazine's 20 Things You Didn't Know About

20 Things You Didn't Know About: Inner Earth...
includes one tidbit #7 - Earth's solid and liquid cores together generate the magnetic field that keeps the solar wind from stripping away our atmosphere. [Mars has no substantial atmosphere because it's been long ago striped away by the solar wind because its inner core now lacks the degree of radioactive heat generation to generate a magnetic field like Earth does.]

Now read the other 19 tidbits at:

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/jan-feb/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-inner-earth

Note: The Discover magazine's last page is always "20 Things You Didn't Know About" on different topics. Factoids, nuggets, and tidbits on the topics you always wondered about (click on general topic OR click on specific titles or author, etcetera) from online Discover magazine:

http://discovermagazine.com/departments/20-things-you-didnt-know


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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Global Warming: Basics

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ( carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, etc) act to slow down the escape of heat radiating from the Earth's surface. Atmospheric greenhouse gases are increasing. The resulting average international temperature increases are marked by upward shifts in world wide weather patterns. When Milankovitch cycles, climatic patterns on Earth brought about by "orbital forcing", do finally begin to push towards naturally occurring global warming trends, these cycles will be amplified by our unnatural levels of greenhouse gases. Even if we had stopped releasing them yesterday, these gases will remain for millennia. At the ever increasing rates of the release of these gases, how much will our descendants suffer because of us? How much does any other issue even compare to this one? How long before we do enough about the real inconvenient truth causing global warming: human overpopulation.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/globalwarmingforkids.html

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/f101.asp

http://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming.asp