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Most Merry and Illustrated History
A Collection of Illustrated Histories, Essays, Musings, and Occasional Diatribe


The Trial of Galileo

The Sad Life and Tragic Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Vincent Van Gogh: A Sort-of Succinct Biography

Humor in the Roman Empire

Game Theory at the Little Bighorn

They Didn't Quite Say That (But They May Have Come Close)
- Some Famous But Accurate Quotes from History


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      Ancient Egypt
      Ancient Rome
      Billy the Kid
      George Washington
      The CooperToons Citizenship Test

The Life and Times of George Washington
      The George Washington Quiz!
      George & William & Sally & Martha
      Did George Washington REALLY Tell Henry Knox to Shift That Fat Ass?
      George Washington's Choppers: A History of the First Presidental Teeth
      George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, and First in Making Booze!
      Selections from George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior
      Was George Washington a Hard Ass?

Rodin and his Practiciens

The Last Days of Pompeii

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

The Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand)

The Mad Bomber of New York

The Life and Times of Thomas Paine

The Life and Death of Socrates

The Life and Epigrams of Martial

Fiddling with Revelation 13:18: A Merry Introduction to Biblical Scholarship

Nero and the Christians

Paul - The Colossal Apostle

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Life and Trial(s) of Lizzie Borden

Stories from the Bible

The Life and Times of Thomas Eakins

The Hippies

The Kidhood of Billy the Kid

Soundbytes of History
      Roman Baths - Creating Equality Around the Empire
      The French Revolution and the Death of Marat
      Pompey the Great's Greatest Faux Pas

The Tomb of Tutankhamun

The Ontological Argument - A Most Merry and Illustrated Explanation

Lawrence of Arabia

The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie

The REAL (Not REEL) Eliot Ness

The Kon-Tiki Expedition

The Delightful History of Soviet Music

Daily Life at Alcatraz

William Burroughs: The Greatest Writer in the World?

Excerpts from the Mutiny on the Bounty: A Most Merry and Illustrated Edition

Baboons: Just Plain Vermin?

Robert Stroud: The Birdman (NOT) of Alcatraz

The OK Corral