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James Zaworski
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I am an American university lecturer living and working in Macau. I have a number of degrees: anthropology, archaeology, history, and education and have a plethora of interests in subjects related to culture, history, natural history, etc.
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Remarkable Pharaohs #20: Thutmose III and Empire.
Remarkable Pharaohs #20:  Thutmose III and Empire. The 18th Dynasty was born from the fires of liberation, but it was forged into an empir...
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December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Christmas Eve, 2025 in Macau
On the evening before Christmas Eve in Macau, I went downtown to have a look at the Christmas lights and observe any festivities.  I've bee...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Remarkable Pharaohs #19: The Unprecedented Reign of Hatshepsut
Remarkable Pharaohs #19: The Unprecedented Reign of Hatshepsut The 18th Dynasty represents the dawn of the New Kingdom, a period of recove...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The Top Ten News Stories of 2025.
The Top Ten News Stories of 2025. As the year 2025 winds down, I feel compelled to look back at what has been a truly transformative, and ...
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December 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Remarkable Pharaohs #18: Thutmose I and the Expansion of Empire
Remarkable Pharaohs #18: Thutmose I and the Expansion of Empire Introduction: The Threshold of Empire If Amenhotep I was the quiet guard...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Remarkable Pharaohs #17: The Peaceful Reign of Amenhotep I
Remarkable Pharaohs #17: The Peaceful Reign of Amenhotep I Introduction: The Architect of Stability Peace is often harder to write about...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The Top Ten Egyptology Discoveries of 2025
The Top Ten Egyptology Discoveries of 2025 2025 has been a very interesting year in terms of Egyptology discoveries.   From the “Lost Abyd...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jameszaworski.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #Archaeology, #Maya, #Mexico, #Teotihuacan
The Arrival of Strangers: The Tikal-Teotihuacan Connection and the Reshaping of Mesoamerican History
The Arrival of Strangers: The Tikal-Teotihuacan Connection and the Reshaping of Mesoamerican History For much of the 20th century, scholars ...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The Encounter: A Tense and Controversial Episode of the Twilight Zone
The Encounter: A Tense and Controversial Episode of the Twilight Zone Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" remains one of the best television serie...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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The Top 10 Paleoanthropological Discoveries of 2025.
2025 has been a remarkable year for discoveries in the field of paleoanthropology (human origins).  If 2024 was the year of questions in hum...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries of 2025.
The Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries of 2025. The year 2025 has been a landmark period for archaeology, characterized by the unearthing ...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The American Revolution, Episode 6: The Most Sacred Thing
The American Revolution, Episode 6: The Most Sacred Thing From Lexington and Concord to Ticonderoga, Saratoga, and finally to Yorktown, en...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The Olympic Mountains: Details from Hurricane Ridge.
I revisited the Olympic Mountains in July of 2024 and took some telephoto zoom shots of them still covered with snow and minor glaciers.   T...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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The American Revolution, Episode 5: The World Turned Upside Down
The American Revolution, Episode 5: The World Turned Upside Down If the earlier years of the war were defined by the struggle for survival...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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James Zaworski's Random Quote of the Day: On Future Prosperity and Mistakes of the Past.
"I'm not going to sacrifice my future prosperity to pay for the mistakes of your past." --James Zaworski's quote of the day. December 2...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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My Photos of a Cheetah with its Thompson's Gazelle Kill, 1981.
I visited Kenya in 1981 and among the parks I was fortunate enough to visit were Nairobi National Park, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Amboseli N...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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The American Revolution, Episode 4: The Turning Tide (A Review)
The American Revolution, Episode 4: The Turning Tide   The American Revolution was a long and bloody affair that divided Americans, patrio...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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The American Revolution, Episode 3: The Times That Try Men’s Souls
The American Revolution, Episode 3: The Times That Try Men’s Souls The American Revolution was not an easy, cut and dry affair.   Revoluti...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Great Gray Heron. #birds
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The American Revolution" Episode 2: An Asylum for Mankind.
The American Revolution: Episode 2 The story of the founding of the United States has always been a place of personal pilgrimage for me. H...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Macau's forgotten monument.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The General Sherman Tree: The Largest Known Tree.
The General Sherman giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park is considered to be the largest living organism,...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Animation Vacation, Part 7.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Ken Burns' "The American Revolutions": A Review
Review: Ken Burns's The American Revolution I just finished streaming Ken Burns’s “The American Revolution” and felt compelled to write ...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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