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Month: September 2018
Page 789, Munsey’s Magazine, 1909: story “The higher pragmatism” Extract of illus from scan. Author O. Henry,...
The Death of Chatteron (suicide with arsenic), by Henry Wallis, 1856 / Tate Britain, Wikimedia Commons Since...
There were lots of exciting forms of gambling in the Middle Ages (more than nowadays) but they...
The Mar Saba monastery well hidden in the Kidron canyon in Yehuddah Desert / Photo by Hedva...
One of the churches in Mamshit. (Creative Commons) The incense route was a path spanning more than...
Photo by Ted Spiegel/National Geographic/Getty Emotional therapy is the animating heart of religion combing social bonding surrounded...
Comet critique; the case for moral atheists. The Great Comet of 1577 by Jiri Daschitzsky. / Wikimedia...
Seven centuries of the Rothschild Pentateuch’s history chart the story. By Dr. Elizabeth Morrison / 09.19.2018 Senior...
Examining the view that the Orthodox Church stifled the development of East Slavic intellectual thought. By Dr....
Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350 – 1375). Photo courtesy the Herzog August Bibliothek,...
In the Medieval ages there was an incredible amount of criminals, mostly because of impunity which gave...
Painting depicting George Washington leading the Continental Army to Valley Forge in 1777, by William B. T....
Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Self-Portrait in a Green Vest’ (1837). Wikimedia Commons Through his art and his travels, 19th-century...
Gaius Gracchus Weeping Before his Fathers Statue, engraved by B.Barloccini, 1849 Tribunes protected the plebs from any...
Romulus and Remus with the Capitoline Wolf / Photo by CellarDoor85, Wikimedia Commons A meager beginning of...
The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person,...
This stone block portrays Akhenaten as a sphinx, and was originally found in the city of Amarna/Akhetaten....
Unlike Dr Strangelove, few people learned to love the bomb – but it changed society nonetheless. Columbia...
In 1945, one major war ended and another began. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 09.26.2018 Historian...
Pskov Veche, by Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1908 / Tretryakov Gallery, Wikimedia Commons Kievan Rus′ was the early, mostly...
The issue of the Middle Age habitat of the Slavs in Central and Eastern Europe has been...
Ancient Roman lead water pipe, 1st-3rd century CE / Wellcome Library, Wikimedia Commons Lead touched many areas...
Neolithic Banpo Village, Xi’an, China, flourished 5,000-3,000 BCE. / Photo by Ian Armstrong, Flickr, Creative Commons Chinese...
1952 Democratic Convention / Wikimedia Commons People gain an understanding and acceptance of the political culture of...
Green Dragon Tavern, Union Street. Engraver: Russell. 1898 (approximate). Copy photograph from engraving by Russell of the...
Divers are seen during the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck, in Cascais in a photo released Monday....
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
The Sacred Way at Delphi with the remains of the Athenians’ Treasury The Delphic Oracle belonged to...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...