Do you enjoy sharing a glass of wine with your friends or family members every once in...
Year: 2020
The Congressional library was destroyed in 1812 when the British burned the Capitol. It came back bigger...
Introduction Construction of the US Capitol we know and love was completed in 1800, following a competition...
It is a shared affliction, our collective ailment, our common humanity, that gives rise to irrational behavior...
The cause of the plague was unknown until the 19th century CE. Introduction The word ‘plague’, in...
Here’s hoping for a future in which we recognize the flood of misinformation around us. Two hoaxes...
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Idle gossip or rumor is personified by the Ancient poets. At the heart of the greatest works...
The marijuana industry in America has had a new lease of life in recent years. This is...
These days, you can find many websites that are helping kids and students get done with the...
Captured officers and seamen of the Governor Gerry had the choice of enlisting in the Royal Navy...
The occurrence of piracy was closely related to international trade, as those involved in piracy would have...
The Wars of the Roses displayed an ever-increasing tendency to use violence to achieve political aims. Introduction...
Regicide had become a shocking but not unsuccessful political strategy. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The Wars of...
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It was not until the Persian Invasion of 525 BCE that a cash economy was instituted in...
Is it possible to compare parental love and romantic love? Or are they completely different and can’t...
The relationship between cocaine and medical practitioners in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Introduction Cocaine is...
How medical pioneers and health innovations shaped the landscape of medicine in the 19th century during disease...
Disease is thought to be caused by intrusion or soul loss, evil spirits, sorcerers, or broken taboos....
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
For fundamentalists, whose brains are not accustomed to thinking critically, rational arguments don’t make a dent with...
Christian fundamentalists have made a spectacular show of their rejection of modern science in response to the...
Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
From cows to controversy, the smallpox vaccine triumphed. Not malaria. Not cholera. Not AIDS, influenza, measles, or...
Finding pockets of hope in the great flu pandemic. On September 12, 1918, Dr. Royal S. Copeland put the...
The toxic properties of arsenic were known by Hippocrates in 370 BCE. By John Frith Introduction Arsenic...
In 1495 an epidemic of a new and terrible disease broke out among the soldiers of Charles...
The first legal text is the Law of the Twelve Tables, dating from the mid-5th century BCE....