The Muisca people are considered to have had one of the most developed political systems in South...
Month: March 2020
The GOP’s slavish groveling overrides – for once – its basic instinct for fear and panic. By...
Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their constitutional rights. Introduction The Intolerable Acts...
While tremendously popular in Britain, George was hated by rebellious American colonists. Introduction George III (George William...
The establishment of petroleum as a tradable commodity and natural resource triggered a paradigm shift in the...
Mechanical machinery in the medieval centuries used innovative sources of energy to generate motion and mechanical power....
Let’s make us familiar with an industrial process of cutting different metals – Oxyfuel Cutting. This thermal...
There have been three great world pandemics of bubonic plague recorded, in 541, 1347, and 1894 CE....
Disease-bearing mice from lower Egypt reached the harbor town of Pelusium in 540 CE. By Thomas H....
The outbreak caused political, military, economic, and religious upheaval. Introduction The Plague of Cyprian erupted in Ethiopia...
The horrific death toll reduced the number of taxpayers, recruits for the army, candidates for public office,...
Trump has shown that he understands who his real and most powerful base is—the billionaire class—ever since...
Mark Antony, one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic, offered the nation’s elected leader,...
His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...
Rushdoony began to advocate for “biblical law” in America. Right around the time the House began its...
Phips became governor of Massachusetts, arriving in Boston from England in May 1692, with the witch-hunt well...
The notion of religious liberty and of freedom of conscience was not recognized. Introduction Inquisition, (capitalized I)...
Protestant denominations also have structural abuse problems – and that isn’t new. By Dr. Suzanna KrivulskayaAssistant Professor...
The Papacy in the Late Middle Ages had a major secular role in addition to its spiritual...
Christianity began in first century C.E. Jerusalem as a Jewish sect, but quickly spread throughout the Roman...
Many Uighur exiles in Turkey are planning to flee again. By Joanna Kakissis Abdurehim Imin Parach often...
Dragons were one of the earliest creatures to appear in the tales and legends of ancient China....
The earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting are fragments of painting on silk, stone, and lacquer items....
Writing methods and tools are evolved from wood and clay to pen and paper, and then from...
The tlacuilo (codex painter) tradition endured the transition to colonial culture. Introduction Aztec codices (singular codex) are...
Aztec culture had complex mythological and religious traditions. Introduction The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central...
Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could...
Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader’s intelligence....
The skull of Oculudentavis provides new clues into the transition from dinosaurs to birds and may be...
The taxon Dinosauria was formally named by the English palaeontologist Richard Owen in 1842. Introduction Dinosaurs are...