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User:Alexthehunn

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I am a PhD candidate at University of Texas at Arlington in the Transatlantic History program. My dissertation focuses on the movement to abolish captial punishment. Dr. Steven G. Reinhardt is my dissertation chairman. My master's thesis is entitiled, "Executioners: The Cutting Edge of Royal Power."

I was born at an early age, in Fort Worth, Texas. I attended Paschal High School, graduating in 1970.

Among the classes I teach are American History, I and II (pre Reconstruction and post Reconstruction).

My interests in history include (in no particular order):


Execution

Death Penalty

Torture

Hapsburg Dynasty

Hohenzollerns

Wittelsbach

Tudors

Stuarts

Romanovs

Henry VIII

Byzantine Empire

Thirty Years War



Primary Historical People who interest me (in no particular order of preference)

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1. Napoleon I
2. Alexander the Great
3. Charles Darwin
4. Marie Antoinette
5. Catherine the Great
6. Julius Caesar
7. Marcus Tullius Cicero
8. Immanuel Kant
9. Albert Einstein
10. Peter the Great
11. Charles V
12. Leo Tolstoy
13. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
14. William the Conquerer
15. Justinian the Great
16. Suleiman the Magnificent
17. Rene Descartes
18. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
19. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
20. Saint Thomas Aquinas
21. Winston Churchill
22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
24. Diana, Princess of Wales
25. Gustavus Adolphus
26. Albrecht von Wallenstein
27. Confucius
28. Frederick the Great
29. Gertude Stein
30. Richard Dawkins
31. Sir Isaac Newton
32. William Shakespeare
33. Horatio Nelson
34. Kaiser Wilhelm II
35. Johann Sebastian Bach