Buloni and the Fox

Posted on Mon 26 October 2020 in update • Tagged with gingerbread man, fox, adobe spark

My daughter's excellent story about Buloni and the Fox made with Adobe Spark:


History: Phoenicians

Posted on Sun 25 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, people

Palestine, Levant- A Semitic speaking people originating on the Arabian Peninsula. The Phoenician people had settled in the region of Palestine, on the Mediterranean coast, since early times. The Phoenician city of Byblos was a major trading center for the middle east in the early first millennia BCE, in particular …


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History: Hittites

Posted on Sun 18 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, people

Mesopotamia- Combined Indo-European and native people in Asia Minor formed the Hittite kingdom, 1750 BCE. The capital of the Hittite kingdom was Hattusha, now called Bogazk"oy in modern Turkey. The Hittites began to spread outward by 1600 BCE, and began to establish an empire. After years of conflict, the …


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Massacre Sites during the German Crusade, 1096

Posted on Mon 12 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, cartography, art, illustrator, mapping, crusades

After 20 years since the start of the first book, I have started work illustrating the historical maps for Warfare in the Age of Crusades: Volume One: The Latin East - Coming 2021!

Truthfully, the technology has gotten easier to work with in 2020.

The Jewish Massacres during the German Crusade, 1096


Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate

Posted on Sun 11 October 2020 in food • Tagged with dinner, fall, pumpkin

Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate 🎃 - slow cooker pumpkin soup par moi, @greatharvest recipe pumpkin bread made by @cairns_kelly, Mediterranean salad with roasted pumpkinseeds #whatsfordinner #autumn

pumpkin #homemade

Fall Harvest Pumpkin Plate


History: Amenhotep IV, Akhenaton

Posted on Sun 11 October 2020 in history • Tagged with history, person

1364- 1347 BCE - The son of Amenhotep the III. Amenhotep IV was preoccupied with the worship of Aton, god of the sun disk. Amenhotep changed his name to Akhenaton, which means "It is well with Aton" and closed temples of other gods, including Atum-Re. Atum-Re was popular in Thebes, so …


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