We need to take people on their own terms, not on ours. And Roebling’s terms were the...
Month: May 2020
It was the first step of what would turn out to be a rocky and far from...
The 40,000 protestors were dispersed by the threat of armed force and false promises of pardons and...
An overview of the major world systems, and where and how they have been and are implemented....
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
Politics and war brought Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever closer. Introduction On May 26, 1914,...
During the contentious deliberations in 1787, an excursion into the country provided a welcome diversion for a...
The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people during and after the decline...
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
China continues to be active in astronomy, with many observatories and its own space program. Introduction Astronomy...
Translation of genealogy documents remains one of the most challenging tasks since it involves research and detailed...
Unless you have succeeded through palaeography for beginners and know where to start, translating the old records...
Selling alcohol in late Victorian Britain required a degree of cunning, ingenuity, and a leap of imagination....
Ideas about the drunkard fueled political and moral debates about the extent of liquor controls. Introduction This...
By 1851, Brown was internationally well known. This article, The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849), was...
He killed his “owner” and fled slavery before finally returning to England in 1604 and embarking to...
The Romans resolved civil disputes by recourse to litigation based on law. Abstract This is a broad...
The grandeur that was Rome was actually the grandeur of Roman Law. I In ancient Greece or,...
When one is “brewminating” over the middle ages, anywhere between the collapse of the Roman empire to...
For many men, going to the barbershop is an important ritual. Every few weeks, you sit down...
The modes of money are changing, and technology is enhancing too. Starting from coins to paper money,...
“Enlightenment is the human being’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity.” By Santana Juache Introduction The Enlightenment stemmed...
The Enlightenment’s chronology, spatiality, and content in the context of the Industrial Revolution. Introduction In 1997 Robert...
Construction could sometimes take decades to complete these massive defensive structures. Introduction Medieval fortification refers to medieval...
The Middle Ages saw the emergence of the castle in Europe, which then spread to Western Asia....
To this day we say: “a man who is worth his salt.” In ancient Rome, this was...
It was a full scale political revolution carried out by less advantaged Romans that redefined the Roman...
Pablo Giancaterino, an Argentina based attorney working with Miami, Florida lawyer Michael Diaz Jr. of Diaz Reus...
While there were economic consequences of the 1918 pandemic, most were found to be short-lived. Introduction The...