Go Indie -- Discover Indie Authors: Summer of Indie Speaks With Lisa Bilbrey

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Go Indie -- Discover Indie Authors: Summer of Indie Takes One Last Class With Karen Mu...

Go Indie -- Discover Indie Authors: Summer of Indie Takes One Last Class With Karen Mu...: Today Summer of Indie talked with author Karen Mueller Bryson. Karen is the creator of Short on Time Books, " a series of fast-paced and f...

History Trivia

On August 3

 8 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeated Dalmatians on the river Bathinus (southern Croatia).

435 Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt. Nestorianism is the error that Jesus is two distinct persons.

881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the German poem Ludwigslied.  

1291 the Crusaders abandoned Tortosa (province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain) to the Muslims. 

1347 Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrendered to Edward III of England, hoping to relieve the siege.  

1387 Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark/ Norway died.

1460 King James II of Scotland died.

Independent Paperback News: "Lollipops of Dust"

Independent Paperback News: "Lollipops of Dust": Today we feature Lollipops of Dust, a memoir about a childhood in Botswana, beautifully recounted by accomplished poet and author, Sue L...

History Trivia

On August 2

338 BC A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

216 BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal and his elephants defeated a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro, killing 60,000.

47 BC Julius Caesar said "veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) after defeating Pharnaces, King of Pontus (northeast Turkey).

924  Aelfweard of Wessex, second son of Edward the Elder (son and heir of Alfred the Great) died.

1100 William II (Rufus) was killed by an arrow shot by Walter Tyrell while hunting in the New Forest.

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Go Indie -- Discover Indie Authors: Summer of Indie Hangs With Bonnie Roanski

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