{"id":14519,"date":"2013-10-10T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2013-10-10T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:04:31","slug":"the-history-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2013\/10\/10\/the-history-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Listings"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing I’ve always loved about traveling and living overseas is the exposure to different newspapers. This is doubly true because I come from a country (America) where the printed newspaper is a dying breed, replaced by online content. But in most other countries the newspaper is a thriving, important part of daily culture. You can learn a lot about a country from picking up a few days’ worth of one of the big daily papers.<\/p>\n

Now, Oman’s English-language papers certainly aren’t going to win any awards, but they are a nice way to keep in touch with what’s going on in the area. Plus you can hardly beat the price–I get the Muscat Daily<\/em> delivered everyday for 15 OMR\/year. Yes, per year. It has enough news to make the morning coffee a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n

I begin my Muscat Daily <\/em>each morning by flipping to page 8, where the good editors of the paper have included a “Today in History” column. I think they’re just pulling up Wikipedia’s main page and grabbing the 15 most recent events (I’ve never seen anything pre-1700). Today, for example, we learn that on this day in 1964 the Olympics began in Tokyo, which makes me think two things: Why were the Olympics beginning in October? And, there’s been quite a bit in the news recently about Tokyo’s next Olympic turn, in 2020. <\/p>\n

Even better than my own fascination with these events is the constant connection I can make between “Today in History” and “Today in History Class”. At least once per week something pops up that I’m studying with the students. Like this: we began learning about Stalin’s Five-Year Plans in Grade 11 two weeks ago. Thirty minutes after class ended I opened up the paper and saw that on that day in history, in 1928, the Five-Year Plans began! The students were a bit shocked–first, to see what they’re studying appear in the paper, and second that their teacher appeared to have timed his course so spookily (pure coincidence). <\/p>\n

And so the students (hopefully) see that the topics we cover have interest to many people and don’t exist in some academic vacuum, confined to a stale syllabus for the sole purpose of tormenting teenagers. These events, appearing daily in the paper, are part of a large chain that lead us here today. <\/p>\n

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