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| ARTICLES RELATED TO David Drake | | | |  David Drake: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - Arthur's swordsIn Robert de Boron's Merlin, later followed by Thomas Malory, Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a sword from a stone and anvil. In this account, this act could not be performed except by "the true king," meaning the divinely appointed king or true heir of Uther Pendragon. This sword was presumably the famous Excalibur and the identity is made explicit in the later so-called Vulgate Merlin Continuation.
However, in what is sometimes called the Post-Vulgate Merlin, Excalibur was taken from a hand rising from a l ...
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media Several films have been made that exploit the concepts of alternative history, most notably Kevin Brownlow's It Happened Here. Another such film is 2009 Lost Memories, a Korean film supposing that Hirobumi Ito was not assassinated by An Jung-geun in Harbin, China, in 1909.
A few movies about alternate pasts, however, focus on individuals rather than historical events and some students of AH would say these are not alternate histories (e.g., Frank Capra’s It's a Wonderful Life, and more recently the films ...
See also:Alternative history fiction, Alternative history fiction - History of alternate history fiction, Alternative history fiction - Antiquity, Alternative history fiction - 19th century, Alternative history fiction - Early 20th century, Alternative history fiction - Cross-time stories, Alternative history fiction - Introducing the paratime patrol, Alternative history fiction - Development of more sophisticated framings, Alternative history fiction - The Connecticut Yankee wins at last!, Alternative history fiction - Major U.S. writers explore alternate histories, Alternative history fiction - Contemporary alternate history in popular literature including the s-f genre, Alternative history fiction - Alternate history in the contemporary fantasy genre, Alternative history fiction - Elements of Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - The boundaries of alternative history, Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media, Alternative history fiction - Points of divergence, Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history, Alternative history fiction - Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - Published alternative histories, Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories Read more here: » Alternative history fiction: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history See main articles: historical revisionism, virtual history
Historians also speculate in this manner; this type of speculation is known commonly as "counterfactual history" or "virtual history". There is considerable debate within the community of historians about the validity and purpose of this type of speculation.
For alternative histories which some assert to be factual rather than speculative, see conspiracy theory and historical revisionism.
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See also:Alternative history fiction, Alternative history fiction - History of alternate history fiction, Alternative history fiction - Antiquity, Alternative history fiction - 19th century, Alternative history fiction - Early 20th century, Alternative history fiction - Cross-time stories, Alternative history fiction - Introducing the paratime patrol, Alternative history fiction - Development of more sophisticated framings, Alternative history fiction - The Connecticut Yankee wins at last!, Alternative history fiction - Major U.S. writers explore alternate histories, Alternative history fiction - Contemporary alternate history in popular literature including the s-f genre, Alternative history fiction - Alternate history in the contemporary fantasy genre, Alternative history fiction - Elements of Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - The boundaries of alternative history, Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media, Alternative history fiction - Points of divergence, Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history, Alternative history fiction - Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - Published alternative histories, Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories Read more here: » Alternative history fiction: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media Several films have been made that exploit the concepts of alternative history, most notably Kevin Brownlow's It Happened Here. Another such film is 2009 Lost Memories, a Korean film supposing that Hirobumi Ito was not assassinated by An Jung-geun in Harbin, China, in 1909.
Many movies about alternate pasts, however, focus on individuals rather than historical events and some students of AH would say these are not alternate histories (e.g., Frank Capra’s It's a Wonderful Life, and more recently the films < ...
See also:Alternative history fiction, Alternative history fiction - History of alternate history fiction, Alternative history fiction - Antiquity, Alternative history fiction - 19th century, Alternative history fiction - Early 20th century, Alternative history fiction - Cross-time stories, Alternative history fiction - Introducing the paratime patrol, Alternative history fiction - Development of more sophisticated framings, Alternative history fiction - The Connecticut Yankee wins at last!, Alternative history fiction - Major U.S. writers explore alternate histories, Alternative history fiction - Contemporary alternate history in popular literature including the s-f genre, Alternative history fiction - Alternate history in the contemporary fantasy genre, Alternative history fiction - Elements of Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - The boundaries of alternative history, Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media, Alternative history fiction - Points of divergence, Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history, Alternative history fiction - Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - Published alternative histories, Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories Read more here: » Alternative history fiction: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories soc.history.what-if is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussing alternative histories. This newsgroup has spawned a number of interesting alternative timelines, including an online role playing game which has run continuously since 2000 called SHWI-ISOT with a POD in 1800 and in which the characters are based on the players being sent from the 21st century back to an alternate early 19th Century, where they have started altering history. Th ...
See also:Alternative history fiction, Alternative history fiction - History of alternate history fiction, Alternative history fiction - Antiquity, Alternative history fiction - 19th century, Alternative history fiction - Early 20th century, Alternative history fiction - Cross-time stories, Alternative history fiction - Introducing the paratime patrol, Alternative history fiction - Development of more sophisticated framings, Alternative history fiction - The Connecticut Yankee wins at last!, Alternative history fiction - Major U.S. writers explore alternate histories, Alternative history fiction - Contemporary alternate history in popular literature including the s-f genre, Alternative history fiction - Alternate history in the contemporary fantasy genre, Alternative history fiction - Elements of Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - The boundaries of alternative history, Alternative history fiction - Alternative history in other media, Alternative history fiction - Points of divergence, Alternative history fiction - Counterfactual and virtual history, Alternative history fiction - Sidewise Award for Alternate History, Alternative history fiction - Published alternative histories, Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories Read more here: » Alternative history fiction: Encyclopedia II - Alternative history fiction - Online alternative histories |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur Arthur first appears in Welsh literature. In a surviving early Welsh poem, The Gododdin (ca. 594 AD), the poet Aneirin (ca. 535-600 AD) writes of one of his subjects that "he fed black ravens on the ramparts, although he was no Arthur." However, this poem (as it currently exists) is full of interpolations, and it is not possible to decide if this passage is an interpolation from a later period. The following poems attributed to Taliesin are possibly from a similarly early date: The Chair of the Sovereign, which refers to "Arthu ...
See also:King Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthur of history, King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthurian romance, King Arthur - Arthur's swords, King Arthur - Arthur in various media, King Arthur - Literature, King Arthur - Plays, King Arthur - Opera, King Arthur - Film, King Arthur - Television, King Arthur - Other media, King Arthur - Bibliography Read more here: » King Arthur: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - The Arthurian romance The first major popularization of Arthurian legend was Geoffrey of Monmouth's fictional Historia Regum Britanniae, a medieval equivalent of a bestseller that helped draw the attention of other writers, such as Robert Wace and Layamon, who then expanded on the tales of Arthur. The date of the Historia is given as 1133 by a small proportion of experts; however, the date is more normally given as 1138, as the following quote indicates:
Geoffrey stayed at Oxford at least until 1151 and during this period wrote his two ...
See also:King Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthur of history, King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthurian romance, King Arthur - Arthur's swords, King Arthur - Arthur in various media, King Arthur - Literature, King Arthur - Plays, King Arthur - Opera, King Arthur - Film, King Arthur - Television, King Arthur - Other media, King Arthur - Bibliography Read more here: » King Arthur: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - The Arthurian romance |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations Symptoms can include general restlessness, insomnia, aggressiveness, depression, dissociation, emotional detachment, or nightmares. Amplification of other underlying psychological conditions may also occur. Young children suffering from PTSD will often enact aspects of the trauma through their play, and may often have nightmares that lack any recognizable content.
One patho-psychological way of explaining PTSD is by viewing the condition as secondary to deficient emotional or cognitive processing of a trauma (Cordova 2001) ...
See also:Post-traumatic stress disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Background, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Diagnostic Criteria, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neuroanatomy, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Cancer as PTSD-trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Movies, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Non-Fiction Read more here: » Post-traumatic stress disorder: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenaries in popular culture Like piracy, the mercenary ethos resonates with idealized adventure, mystery and danger. Examples of this are:
The novel Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth and the movie (1981) with the same name, which go into some detail about an actual if fictionalized mercenary operation in Africa in the 1960s.
The novel The Wild Geese by Daniel Carney and the movie (1978) with the same name. The plot is that a global British financial syndicate seeks to rescue the deposed leader of a central African ...
See also:Mercenary, Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war, Mercenary - Gurkhas and French Foreign Legionnaires, Mercenary - Mercenaries and domestic law, Mercenary - Mercenary operations, Mercenary - Private military company PMC, Mercenary - Mercenaries in Africa, Mercenary - 20th century, Mercenary - Ancient Egypt, Mercenary - Mercenaries in European history, Mercenary - Mercenaries in the classic era, Mercenary - Mercenaries in medieval warfare, Mercenary - Mercenaries in the modern age, Mercenary - Mercenaries in popular culture, Mercenary - Notes Read more here: » Mercenary: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenaries in popular culture |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry.
PTSD displays biochemical changes in the brain and body, which are different from other psychiatric disorders such as major depression.
In PTSD patients, the dexamethasone cortisol suppression is strong, while it is weak in patients with major depression. In most PTSD patients the urine secretion of cortisol is low, at the same time as the catecholamine secretion is high, and the norepinephrine/cortisol ratio is increased. Brain catecholamine levels are low, ...
See also:Post-traumatic stress disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Background, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Diagnostic Criteria, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neuroanatomy, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Cancer as PTSD-trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Movies, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Non-Fiction Read more here: » Post-traumatic stress disorder: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence PTSD may be experienced following any traumatic experience, or series of experiences which satisfy the criteria, and that do not allow the victim to readily recuperate from the detrimental effects of stress. It is believed that of those exposed to traumatic conditions between 5% (life threatening disease such as cancer) and 80% (rape) will develop PTSD depending on the severity of the trauma and personal vulnerability.
In peacetime, 30% of those that suffer will go on to develop a chronic condition; ...
See also:Post-traumatic stress disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Background, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Diagnostic Criteria, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neuroanatomy, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Cancer as PTSD-trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Movies, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Non-Fiction Read more here: » Post-traumatic stress disorder: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment PTSD is usually treated by a combination of psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy, group therapy, and exposure therapy are popular) and psychotropic drug therapy (antidepressant or atypical antipsychotics, e.g. brand names such as Prozac (fluoxetine), Effexor (venlafaxin), Zoloft (sertraline), Remeron (mirtazapine), Zyprexa (olanzapine), or Seroquel (quetiapine)). Talk therapy may prove useful, but only insofar as the individual sufferer is enabled to come to terms with the trauma suffered and successfully integrate the experiences in ...
See also:Post-traumatic stress disorder, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Background, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Diagnostic Criteria, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Symptoms and their possible explanations, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Biology of PTSD, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neurochemistry, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Neuroanatomy, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Prevalence, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Cancer as PTSD-trauma, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Fiction, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Movies, Post-traumatic stress disorder - Non-Fiction Read more here: » Post-traumatic stress disorder: Encyclopedia II - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Treatment |
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| | | | | David Drake: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - The Arthur of history The possible historicity of the Arthur of legend has long been debated by scholars. One school of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late 5th century to early 6th century, to have been of Romano-British origin, and to have fought against the pagan Saxons. His power base was probably in either Wales, Cornwall, or the west of what would become England. However, controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to this day.
Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey ...
See also:King Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthur of history, King Arthur - Earliest traditions of Arthur, King Arthur - The Arthurian romance, King Arthur - Arthur's swords, King Arthur - Arthur in various media, King Arthur - Literature, King Arthur - Plays, King Arthur - Opera, King Arthur - Film, King Arthur - Television, King Arthur - Other media, King Arthur - Hidden Versions of the Arthur Legend in Other Works, King Arthur - Bibliography Read more here: » King Arthur: Encyclopedia II - King Arthur - The Arthur of history |
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