History Was Just the Half of It
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Could Macedonians ride and carry shields at the same time? With a little help, Oliver Stone balances military history and movie pragmatism in "Alexander."
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. It is fiction.
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IT IS impossible to achieve greatness in sport without being measured against history. On Saturday, the last night of athletics in the 2004 Olympics, a man and a woman, a king and a queen of the track, ran into history.
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You know, there's little Empire likes better on a quiet evening at home than to read about the history of the Spanish Reconquista.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was a glorious moment in European history. It brought freedom to the half of Europe that suffered under political and economic tyranny for over four decades.
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This wasn't a football game. It was a series of unfortunate events.
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(Corrects second paragraph to make clear the &#36;3.5 million is not entirely for the new History Center.)
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The culture wars just aren't what they used to be.
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Much of the initial information about what had happened in Asia came from the Web.
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Overall, the album just doles out routine fare.
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Death Of A President could have been better, had it paid more attention to detail.
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Connecting past to present, the History Channel's documentary about the War of 1812 tells a selective story.
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It would surprise many people to learn that most of those countries have only been around since 1922.
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It's an interesting read, but not a revelatory one.
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Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. âQuxiotic/Honor de Cavalleriaâ is composed of little else.
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Reading about investing is only half the battle.