World History
I have been tagged by Jennie Weber of the American Presidents Blog. That means that I have to:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
Here are 8 random facts about myself:
1. Miland Brown is a pseudonym. My identity is known by many in the history blogosphere as I have volunteered it to the coordinators of the various history carnivals I have hosted. Many at the higher education institution I work at know it as well. The clues are there if you want to learn my true identity.
2. I have four academic degrees of which three are at the graduate level.
3. I love American football. I concentrate on watching Division 1A college football but also like to watch the NFL.
4. I also am a big fan of soccer (football) at the international level. I really enjoy watching the American national team repeatedly beat the Mexican national team. Most of my Spanish has been learned from watching Univision. Gooaal!!
5. Not a surprise to regular readers of this blog, I am a critic of bad historical revisionism. Proponents of 9/11 revisionism, Holocaust denial, Roswell Aliens, lunar landing hoaxer claimers, illegal occupation lunatics in Hawaii and Texas, etc. do not fair well here.
6. I am a fan of Ayn Rand. Like her or not, Atlas Shrugged is a thought provoking novel.
7. I feel strongly that if you have a blog, you should allow comments. I agree with deleting spam comments but almost everything else should be published. If you have a blog and do not allow comments, you are indicating to others that you are not interested in academic debate. If you are using a blog to only further search engine optimization or to further your own views OK, but...
8. I like Piers Anthony as an author. The Incarnations of Immortality series dominated my imagination as a teenager. Although not as well written as I remember when I re-read them, I still get a thrill by perusing them.
I tag the following:
The Dougout
Pistols in the Pulpit
Time and Seasons
Gates of Vienna
Ludus Historiae
History Librarian
Tudor History Blog
Coming Anarchy
My apologies to any of the above if they have been previously tagged. Feel free to ignore me if you have.
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World History
Tagged by Jennie!
I have been tagged by Jennie Weber of the American Presidents Blog. That means that I have to:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
Here are 8 random facts about myself:
1. Miland Brown is a pseudonym. My identity is known by many in the history blogosphere as I have volunteered it to the coordinators of the various history carnivals I have hosted. Many at the higher education institution I work at know it as well. The clues are there if you want to learn my true identity.
2. I have four academic degrees of which three are at the graduate level.
3. I love American football. I concentrate on watching Division 1A college football but also like to watch the NFL.
4. I also am a big fan of soccer (football) at the international level. I really enjoy watching the American national team repeatedly beat the Mexican national team. Most of my Spanish has been learned from watching Univision. Gooaal!!
5. Not a surprise to regular readers of this blog, I am a critic of bad historical revisionism. Proponents of 9/11 revisionism, Holocaust denial, Roswell Aliens, lunar landing hoaxer claimers, illegal occupation lunatics in Hawaii and Texas, etc. do not fair well here.
6. I am a fan of Ayn Rand. Like her or not, Atlas Shrugged is a thought provoking novel.
7. I feel strongly that if you have a blog, you should allow comments. I agree with deleting spam comments but almost everything else should be published. If you have a blog and do not allow comments, you are indicating to others that you are not interested in academic debate. If you are using a blog to only further search engine optimization or to further your own views OK, but...
8. I like Piers Anthony as an author. The Incarnations of Immortality series dominated my imagination as a teenager. Although not as well written as I remember when I re-read them, I still get a thrill by perusing them.
I tag the following:
The Dougout
Pistols in the Pulpit
Time and Seasons
Gates of Vienna
Ludus Historiae
History Librarian
Tudor History Blog
Coming Anarchy
My apologies to any of the above if they have been previously tagged. Feel free to ignore me if you have.
- What Is Your Favorite History Site - Open Comments
Over the years, I have become very protective of my comments. They have been targeted as prime spam space by many spammers and I still have to delete many spam submissions. One of the rules I enforce is that links to others sites almost always result...
- History Of Soccer In Us
I am posting yet another of those free to use Ezinearticles.com articles. I find one occasionally I like and since blogs are allowed to reprint them free... I am a big fan of the US national soccer team. They have improved a lot in the last several decades...
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Happy New Year! Last week, this blog successfully passed the three year birthday date. As blogs tend to have short lives, I am very happy to still be around and blogging on a regular basis. Let me thank some people: 1. I appreciate all the readers who...
- Fighting Comment Spam At The World History Blog
They will not go away. Despite adding word verification (and required ID's) to stop automated spambots, I am still getting spam in my comments. Apparently the spammers are now creating accounts just to spam. They manually enter the word verification...
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