I would like to note that this is speaking of governments only, not the country and not the people.
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It took me a brief search through my source to bring this information and links, to Iraqis inside and outside, most of this is common knowledge to them, I had more source in Arabic text but I can not assume one knows or knows not how to read them, note that this is just a sample and that a lot of the links listed under one country have information about one or more of the others....

I'm taking an idea from Anthony Bourdain here. In his book, Medium Raw, Bourdain has a chapter entitled Heroes and Villains. Basically, he runs down a list of all the people that he feels are good for the food industry as well as all the ones that he feels are not so good for the industry.


Below, I have listed 5 Heroes and 5 Villains of Japanese Historical Study. The Heroes are people that I have great admiration for and I feel they have done a great deal to better the field....

Well, I figured I would start sharing my thoughts on some of the books I've read recently. First up:




Wow. That's all I can say about the stunning amount of stats and figures that William Wayne Farris manages to stuff into Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility and Warfare In A Transformative Age (2006).

There are so...

As you can tell from the title, Takeda Katsuyori is not one of my favorite individuals in Japanese history. It's not that often that you come across someone who has the ability to single handily destroy one of the more powerful clans in Japan. (I know there is an argument that it is not entirely his fault, but I still place the blame squarely on him.)

At the time of Takeda Shingen's death and the ascension of Katsuyori to the head of the clan, the Takeda were an extremely powerful...

Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan is Dr. Karl Friday's contribution to the "Warfare and History" series created by Jeremy Black. I've only read a few other titles in this series, but Friday's is easily my favorite.

This work provides a stunning amount of information on the advancements in weapon technology in...