You know you’ve being doing math for too long recently when you start writing the date as:
9
- of 08
6
I went to a bookshop/restaurant/internet cafe on Saturday to do some downloading both for me and for Mum. She wanted some Cindy Rushton audios, I wanted to download some history websites for my own study and some wargame rules.
Well, it went great! I found a wonderful website called http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html which had all these medieval books for free. Not modern historians’ writings, actual sources written in the middle ages! There was one book called the Alexiad, which was about the Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, etc.) emperor at the time of the First Crusade written by his daughter! This emperor, Alexius (hence the name of the book) was one of the greatest later Byzantine emperors and now I have a book, written by his daughter, about his life and reign! There was another book by Julius Caesar about his conquest of Gaul (France), another on the Hundred Years War between France and England, a list of testaments (I think that’s like a charter for a monastery) for medieval Orthodox Greek monasteries, instead of the European Catholic monasteries and a load of other goodies. I was like a child in a candy factory! It was an amateur historian’s dream!
I also downloaded some wargames for the Crusading Era in the middle east at http://www.perfectcaptain.50megs.com/captain.html but that was also large downloads and requires a lot of printing. I also downloaded some Wargaming magazines and files. Oh yeah, I also downloaded stuff for Mum too! J
Comments
Jun. 9, 2008 - Hi!
Posted by rainstar13
Hi! My name is Alex. I like your blog! Want to be friends? :)
Jun. 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Wow!!!!! I can't believe how young you are, to have such wisdom and knowledge.You write beter than most adults. I pray that continue that passion. Great job. Leena
Jun. 14, 2008 - Downloading
Posted by Ham'G
Wow Josh - you found all of that and STILL remembered to download stuff for your Mum - I'm impressed at the absent minded professor. LOL. Ham'G
Jun. 15, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Dot
Always great when you can find things that you want. Way to go!
I put some more recent paintings on my blog. Have a great weekend.