Explained: Five Shortest Wars in Human History
While some may use different qualifiers than I have in my analysis, here is my take on the five shortest wars in all of history.
The United States military has been involved in Afghanistan since October 2001, and while involvement is now in its second phase, even that is now entering its seventh year – longer than America s involvement in World War I and World War II combined. Yet, the more than 19 years is actually relatively short compared to such seemingly endless conflicts including the Spanish Reconquista and the Roman-Persian Wars, which spanned hundreds of years, depending on the historian one cites.
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A Splendidly Unique Game! The Mission – Board Game Review Rick Martin
The Mission – Early Christianity from the Crucifixion to the Crusades Board Game Review. Publisher: White Dog Games Game Designer: R. Ben Madison Price $50.00
Passed Inspection: unique subject matter, fun and challenging, lots of repay value, I learned a lot about Christian history from this game
Failed Basic: some rules need a little more explanation, map could be larger (fixed by the publisher), needs different victory conditions if you can’t play the main campaign all the way through (partial play victory points based upon what turn you ended on)
Stone shield of the Trinitarian Order on the façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641) in Rome. (Image: Jastrow/Wikipedia)
While celebrating his first Mass, St. John of Matha (1160-1213) whose Feast is celebrated on December 17th was granted the signal favor of having God’s Will for his priesthood revealed clearly to him. At the elevation of the Host, he fell into ecstasy at the sight of an angel appearing to him clad in a white robe with a red and blue cross upon his breast. The angel had his arms crossed with his hands resting protectively upon two manacled slaves on each side, a white man and a black man. Divinely illumined, John of Matha resolved to dedicate his priesthood to the mission of ransoming Christian slaves held captive by the Muslims.