Kevin Manzel
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History. Music. Books. Running. Learning. Always learning. VP Content Strategy, The Great Courses.
Whatâs surprising about Robert Greenbergâs iconic Great Music course is that the joy is not in hearing the music per se. Its doom-scroll-era joy of listening with intent. Of paying close attention to music made with intent and bearing historical context.
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It's my birthday so we're jumping to my fav, episode 8 on married women's dependent citizenship & Ruth Bryan Owen, from "Forgotten America" w/ The Great Courses & Audible đď¸
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A reference my kids will never get: Talking about 17th-c Rome banning opera during Lent Robert Greenberg quipped, âWhatâs an Italian opera addict supposed to do? Watch 40 straight days of Hoganâs Heroes re-runs?!â đ
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Archaeologists next to one of the many massive Olmec heads. The Olmec civilization is considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, and these sculptures are their most iconic artifacts
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Was today years old when I learned the French Open tennis stadium Roland Garros is named for the first pilot to fly across the Mediterranean and who was shot down and killed in WWI.
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Roland Garros (aviator) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros_(aviator)
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I had no idea the most interesting parts of Great Coursesâ history of the Mediterranean course would be its role in WWI and WWII. Best part was learning of the obsolete planes flown to great effect by Maltese volunteers in WWII.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...
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Forgotten Fights: Malta's Faith, Hope, and Charity, 1940
The courageous volunteer pilots of three obsolete British biplanes nicknamed Faith, Hope, and Charity engaged enemy raiders in combat over Malta in June 1940.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/british-biplanes-faith-hope-charity-1940
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History told through coins is always fascinating to me.
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News - 'Lamb of God' Coins Issued by Desperate English King Found in Denmark - Archaeology Magazine
COPENHAGEN, DENMARKâThe Viking Herald reports that two rare English âLamb of Godâ coins were recently [âŚ]
https://archaeology.org/news/2026/05/04/lamb-of-god-coins-issued-by-desperate-english-king-found-in-denmark/
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Interested in a FREE live talk and Q&A with historian
@rickbell.bsky.social
on the Declaration of Independence @250? How about best-selling biographer Dr. Michael Shelden on the birth of the Beatles? Register here:
www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/liveevents
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Jeopardy contestants should get a bonus for running a category
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Struggled to choose my next read, but I am so psyched about this book
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Just learned that Milanâs name derives from Celtic origins: Medhelanon (âmiddle plainâ). I canât wait to bore people with that nugget.
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What would happen to all 57 LIV golfers if the tour folds? I don't care. Do you?
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I had no idea this was a thing and now i want to read everything i can about it and specualtion on its implications for Rome.
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Roman Warm Period - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
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Dear Today Show: Stop inventing reasons to give air time to weight loss drugs on every show. We get it. Youâre paying back their ad dollars. Just say itâs paid promotion.
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Suburban Sisyphus: a guy whose just-filled lawn bag has the bottom blow out, so he now has to re-bag everything. (Aka me.)
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Iâm such a painfully slow reader, but I sprinted thru the final 200 pages of Intermezzo yesterday and today. Absolutely loved it. Ivan and Margaret need their own dedicated novel btw.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy
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The Library of Ashurbanipal was to the ancient Greeks and Romans what the Library of Alexandria is to us today: a lost archive of unparalleled, almost mythical proportions. Ashurbanipal collected texts on every subject, from astronomy to medicine.â
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How the World's Oldest Library Survived an Empire's Fall
Pretty much everything we know about the ancient Assyrian Empire, is thanks to the Library of Ashurbanipal.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/huge-library-of-ashurbanipal-2709162
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If your mind is a bit famished, and with these mergers happening in streaming land, you might try Great Courses Plus. I think thereâs a free trial and with annual or quarterly sub it costs a few fast food meals a month. Instead, you get slow food for your brainđđ
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Explore | Plus
The Great Courses Plus is a subscription video service with thousands of courses, documentaries & more. Start your 14-day free trial and start streaming 10,000+ videos ad-free.
https://plus.thegreatcourses.com/home
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Very cool to see an undergrad joining Dr. Sarah Rugheimerâs Great Courses Journey Live event and asking about switching his comp sci major for astronomy and what he can do with that degree. Inspiring a new generation of astronomers via TGC!
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic
21 days ago
Come with us on a journey through The Great Courses Enchanted England, where folklore and fairy tales come to life. Explore a Shakespeare performance in London, a day trip to Oxford University, and a quest for King Arthur in Cornwall!
www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/enchantedeng...
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Omg this is so exciting. I clearly remember listening to the CD box set religiously.
www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/recording-lets-you-hear-delta-blues-legend-robert-johnson-in-stunning-clarity.html
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Heard in one lecture parts of Beethovenâs 9th and 5th, Handelâs Water Music, something from Bach I canât remember the name of, and losing myself in appreciating classical music for an hour while running is pure bliss.
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Just started listening this for the first time in several years and am loving it. I need much more medieval and plainchant music in my life, I think.
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The Carterhaugh School | Folklore, Fairy Tales, Everyday Magic
26 days ago
Remember our series Urban Legends Explained streaming on Great Courses Plus? We covered the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Slenderman, cryptids, and MORE. It's shortlisted for a Telly Award! Please vote for our show! Voting ends April 17!
peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Amazing discovery and another piece in the piece of Shakespeareâs puzzle solved.
apnews.com/article/shak...
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New discovery solves mystery of the location of Shakespeare's London house
A newly discovered 17th-century map sheds light on William Shakespeare's life in London. King's College London announced Thursday that the property plan pinpoints the exact location of the only home S...
https://apnews.com/article/shakespeare-house-london-map-discovery-e51246cb9882037d3731db62255639d3
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Thereâs a religious retirement community in Bruges in continuous operation for nearly 800 years. Imagine the ghosts shuffling thru there and the stories those walls could tell
www.visitbruges.be/en/things-to...
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Begijnhof (Beguinage) | Visit Bruges
The 'Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde' with its white-coloured house fronts and tranquil convent garden was founded in 1245. This little piece of world
https://www.visitbruges.be/en/things-to-do/culture-and-heritage/begijnhof-beguinage
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day to all who celebrate!
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Folks, letâs help bring home a Telly. This was such a fun and fascinating course.
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I know im getting old when medieval coins are exciting to me, but here we are.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Fakenham St John the Baptist coin pendant is unique, says expert
The discovery of the gold imitation coin raises more questions than it answers, says a coin expert.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje4lx3yg1wo
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Really interested to see the reaction to this new course.
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Medicine, Recreation, and the Long History of Cannabis
From the hemp boom of the colonial period to the extreme drug crackdowns that characterized the Nixon and Reagan administrations, study cannabis in social, political, and cultural context, to understand the drug for what it really is: a mirror to our world.
https://shop.thegreatcourses.com/medicine-recreation-and-the-long-history-of-cannabis
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A bonkers stat: Tomorrow, Robert Greenberg will record his 700th Great Courses lecture! Itâs an absolutely mind-boggling number.
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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I learned that Dali was obsessed with the landscape background of the Mona Lisa and âquotedâ it in some paintings. He was so inventive that itâs amazing to me he found inspiration in Leonardo.
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Just finished Dorsey Armstrongâs Great Courses - King Arthur:History and Legend - sheâs a great lecturer
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Galileo was so proud of being from the same town (Florence) as Michelangelo that he claimed a kind of cosmic connection by telling people he was born the same day Michelangelo died (he was actually born 3 days prior) in 1564.
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I love this so much. Made my whole teamâs day â¤ď¸
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I had no idea Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment 24 yrs AFTER The Creation of Adam. He was literally in dialogue with his younger self and staring at his earlier masterpiece the whole time.
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There a lot of mightâve and possibly, but still amazing archaeological and archival work
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals
A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/native-americans-invented-dice-and-games-of-chance-more-than-12-000-years-ago-archaeological-study-reveals
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Hearing an astrobiologist explain patiently why even if we do find biosignatures of life beyond Earth we may not recognize it is kind of scary.
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The Great Courses has their women's history courses on sale for Women's History Month. Sign up for their emails to get the code & get discounts on courses like
@allisonklange.bsky.social
's "12 Women who Shaped America, 1619-1920." đď¸
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12 Women Who Shaped America: 1619 to 1920
Meet the often-overlooked women who changed the face of Americaâfeminists, scholars, reformers, and visionaries.
https://shop.thegreatcourses.com/12-women-who-shaped-america-1619-to-1920
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Teen daughter just asked, âSo, what did the Vatican think about the Holocaust.â UhhhâŚ.
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Hearing an astronomer enthuse over the immense vastness of space captured in this one (and first) Webb Deep Field image is nothing short of thrilling
science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/w...
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Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image) - NASA Science
Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. High-resolution imaging from NASAâs James Webb Space Telescope combined with a natural effect known as gravitational ...
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/webbs-first-deep-field-nircam-image/
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Ok, time to put Michelangelo aside briefly so I can get to our new James Webb Telescope course. Not only is it taught by Dr. Sarah Rugheimer, whoâs amazing, but her friend and guitarist for Incubus composed/performed the music for it.
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The linguistic and epigraphic analyses are as fascinating as the fact that some thought this king was only a legend and not real đ¤Ż
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News - Medieval Documents Recovered at Sudanâs Old Dongola - Archaeology Magazine
WARSAW, POLANDâScience in Poland reports that a medieval document has been recovered at a large [âŚ]
https://archaeology.org/news/2026/03/25/medieval-documents-recovered-at-sudans-old-dongola/
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âI have finished the chapel l have been painting. The pope is very well satisfied.â Michelangelo in maybe historyâs greatest understatement, writing home having just finished the Sistine Chapel.
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This delightful little painted wooden horse was a childâs toy around 2,000 years ago. It dates from 1st - 3rd century AD Roman Egypt. The wood has been preserved so well by the intense dryness of the Egyptian climate. đď¸đˇ British Museum
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Learning how many potentially great works of art Leonardo and Michelangelo abandoned makes me wonder about great authors and any works we know they started but quit to write another.
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Michelangelo becoming a real estate tycoon was not on my bingo card for him, gonna be honest.
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The Author's Guild is on it!
authorsguild.org/human-author...
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Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild
Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. âHuman Authoredâ means that the text of the book was written by a human and not...
https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/
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