Thread: A Bit of History

Originally Posted by Johntoad57

That was one of the best video's that I have seen on the Assyrian Culture. The artifacts and history were magnificent! Thank You for sharing Obie. You should do more of these. You and your cousin make a great team!

John, my friend, bless your heart for the kind words. The subject means a lot to me.

Very nice Obie

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Very nice Obie

Thanks,TC.

I missed this till now. Obie , my friend, you always pull something out of that magical hat of yours. That was very well put together and I'm proud for you.

Watching now, I've always been a huge fan of classical history.

When I'm done, it will be onto Kobo to find some further reading.....thanks for the great presentation, much enjoyed, especially during this time.

Another research project....yippie!

Just reading a book right now about the Roman Emperor Maximus Thrax.

Originally Posted by coachmike

I missed this till now. Obie , my friend, you always pull something out of that magical hat of yours. That was very well put together and I'm proud for you.

Ah, Mike, my good man, bless your heart for the kind words. I am glad you found the video. We filmed in my study. It was a long and beautiful day. Lunch with wine. More filming in-study. My cousin had a good supply of footage from Iraq, when he was back there a few years ago. He also had shot some at the Oriental Institute in Chicago. Years ago he and I had plans to go to northern Iraq, across the frontier from Turkey, and then roam among the villages in the Nineveh Plain and record stories from the old timers. My mouth was watering to do that, but then there was a war going on, and later our friendly ISIS was going nuts. So we had to nix the plan. It was the logical thing to do. I had made it out of Vietnam alive and was not going to have my establishment stepped by the bad guys in Iraq.

Excellent video and like said above you have the perfect voice for a documentary.
I grew up in Greece so being surrounded by history is a given but I still remember the feeling when I visited the Pergamon museum in Berlin and saw the Ishtar gate, the tablets with the first writings etc. It was absolutely fascinating.

Originally Posted by alex1921

Excellent video and like said above you have the perfect voice for a documentary.
I grew up in Greece so being surrounded by history is a given but I still remember the feeling when I visited the Pergamon museum in Berlin and saw the Ishtar gate, the tablets with the first writings etc. It was absolutely fascinating.

Thank you, Alex. Yes, I am familiar with the Pergamon Museum. I was in Berlin before the wall fell and spent many hours at the Pergamon. Good stuff.