Info: This History Channel documentary deals with a raft of extra-canonical texts that did not make it into the Old Testament. Gnostic, heretical, the products of forgery or ancient midrash – these stories circulated for centuries, were lost, rediscovered, or survived in fragmentary forms. Though they feature characters and events we know from today’s bible, each was deemed unfit for inclusion in canon. We ask what made these texts so problematic. Some of today’s best-known scholars and authors examine writings left out the Old Testament, explaining the myriad reasons behind their exclusion from the bible.

Classical comedy satire..Mel Brook’s best film. Once you’ve seen this film, you will not forgot it. The punchlines keep rolling from the beginning of the film, and even past “the big ending”. There is not much of a plot, but that is to be expected in a movie that contains a bunch of skits. If you like Monty Python, then you should love this movie. This movie is not for everyone, especially if you are easily offended. However the opening scene should tell you if you would have a problem watching the rest of the movie. This movie does currently rank in my top 10 comedies of all time.

For 4,000 years weapons, and the warriors who used them, have acted as the cutting edge of history, using ax, spear, bow, sword, gun, and cannon to determine the rise of kingdoms and the fall of empires.
From the stone axes of the earliest warfare to the heavy artillery of today’s modern armies, this awe-inspiring book portrays for the first time the entire spectrum of weaponry.

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