Year: 2012 / Group: NSDM / Event Type: SEM - Seminar - Blacklight Search Results

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11. Prelude to the U.S. Civil War: A “What If” 150th Anniversary

ID:: 2012-SEM1232413
Year:: 2012
Title:: Prelude to the U.S. Civil War: A “What If” 150th Anniversary
Summary:: Could the Civil War have been avoided? If so, what would the implication have been for history? Reviewing the personalities and polarization that lead to America's most deadly conflict.

12. Russia 1812 -The Battle of Maloyaroslavets: Beating the Retreat: A "What If" 200th Anniversary

ID:: 2012-SEM1232410
Year:: 2012
Title:: Russia 1812 -The Battle of Maloyaroslavets: Beating the Retreat: A "What If" 200th Anniversary
Summary:: Napoleon's Army leaving burning Moscow ruins confronted & turned back by Russians. Rich with battlefield photos, discusses history with potential & historical implications had things gone another way.

13. Superpower Nuclear Exchange Circa 1962: “What if” 50th Anniversary

ID:: 2012-SEM1232418
Year:: 2012
Title:: Superpower Nuclear Exchange Circa 1962: “What if” 50th Anniversary
Summary:: Retired Navy Captain with physics M.S. discusses a 1962 US/USSR nuclear exchange: delivery platforms, numbers, yields, accuracies, defenses, likely targets, fallout. What would things look like today?

14. The Cadaver Synod: A Pope’s Corpse On Trial

ID:: 2012-SEM1233408
Year:: 2012
Title:: The Cadaver Synod: A Pope’s Corpse On Trial
Summary:: Why in 897 was a Pope’s corpse disinterred, dressed in Papal regalia, put on trial, “executed” only to put on trial yet again a few years later and how did all this lead to the First Crusade?

15. The First Crusade

ID:: 2012-SEM1233419
Year:: 2012
Title:: The First Crusade
Summary:: Learn about the First Crusade, including how crusaders followed a divinely inspired goose around Europe, how they besieged a castle containing nothing more than sheep, and engaged in cannibalism.