Author: Robert A. Saritelli

Erudite, educational, silly and often amusing. A Gemini!

“Basquesking” In the Glow of Wishful Thinking: Did the Basque Fishermen Precede Columbus & Cabot to the Americas? Not!

Basqueland in Spain & France

Map showing the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot.
Left to Right: Basqueland, Cabot's 1497 Crossing, Stockfish Drying, Map of Early Atlantic Crossings, Explorer Jacques Cartier from France.
Labrador & Newfoundland-Map
Map of Labrador & Newfoundland

Basqueing in Wishful Thinking

by Robert A. Saritelli

Parallels in Place and Person: Pre-First World War Narragansett Pier and the Young Paul Robeson.

Narraganset Pier Beach
The Mathewson Narragansett Pier Hotel
Young Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson & Narragansett Pier

by Robert A. Saritelli

Time For a Long Overdue Change in Brussels, Antwerp and Elsewhere! Facing Squarely the Full Horrors of the Belgian African Past.

Turn! Turn! Turn! Lyrics from the Book of Ecclesiastes
Antwerp’s Museum of Fine Arts
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by Robert A. Saritelli

Three Unlikely Musketeers Pull Back the Curtain Exposing Belgian King Leopold II’s Criminal Congolese Debacle.

Written Article:

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by Robert A. Saritelli

Belgian King Leopold II’s 1890’s Congo: An African Steamboat Ride Through & To Hell!

Congolese Slaves in King Leopold’s African Colony of Horrors
Map of Democratic Republic of the Congo through magnifying glass
Free Congo State
Free Congo State circa 1900-A ‘Chamber of Terror’

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King Leopold II’s 1890 Congo: An African Steamboat Ride Through & To Hell! (more…)

by Robert A. Saritelli

The Underpinning of a Manhattan Myth: Bedrock Depth, Foundations and Skyscraper Density.

Notice the zone with few skyscrapers between Lower Downtown and Midtown Manhattan
The Flat Iron Building-circa 1902-1906
Lower Manhattan at South Tip of the Island

Skyscrapers and Foundations

by Robert A. Saritelli

The Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire and How the Heat of the Arabian Desert Propelled Its Collapse!

Fall of the Eastern Empire
Arabian desert warrior on Arabian steed.
Arabian Warrior Inspired by the prophet Muhammad.
Desert Night on Arabian Peninsula

Fall of the Eastern Empire

by Robert A. Saritelli

Part II. Smallpox & the Descent of the Western Roman Empire Until Its Collapse in AD 476.

Attila and the Hunnic Horde
Smallpox Epidemic in Ancient Rome
Motto of The Curse to the Roman Empire: Attila the Hun.

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Part II_ Descent of Roman Empire PDF

by Robert A. Saritelli

A Fresh Look at the Ascension of Ancient Rome and the Environmental Pitfalls Dug Below Its Foundation.

The Roman Coliseum
Roman Poet Juvenal

 

 

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by Robert A. Saritelli