Is or is not? Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr attend the Solway conference in 1920 in Brussels,...
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Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, the Ayurvedic Man picture book presents a visual history...
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga. By Lalita Kaplish / 01.18.2018...
The weapon ceased to exist by the time the Ottoman Empire finally conquered Constantinople in 1453. September...
The napalm of ancient warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistor Introduction Greek Fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine...
A view on the Roman cavalry forces, especially the equites legionis. By Dr. Stefan Zehetner Institut für...
One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England. From standing PoolesFrom boggs;...
In 1421, the newly elected mayor of Coventry, England issued a proclamation that gives us insights into...
Without doubt, gladiator spectacles were one of the most watched forms of popular entertainment in the Roman...
“The people are only anxious for two things: bread and circuses.” Introduction Two men ready their weapons....
Pest control was a political act in late-nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi, helping sugarcane planters pursue annexation to the United...
The crisis affected all kind of people: whites, mestizos, and indigenous people; herders, large cattle owners, and...
Medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and merchants had little need for it. Abstract...
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
“She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother,” the chronicles say....
His name was synonymous with terror among his enemies and the general populace of the territories that...
The dialectic of Plato’s civic architecture is centered on an account of justice as geometrical equality. Abstract...
The idea of the “people” as a united force suffused the imagery of the New Deal era....
Constructing a “national” identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons....
What is it to understand a language, hence others? By Dr. Paul TomassiFormer Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of...
Several of Santa’s modern features, such as his generosity, miracle-working, and focus on morality (being ‘naughty or nice’), were part of his image from the very...
Alena Kuzmina/Shutterstock.com Christmas tends to assume a strong sense of its own significance in times of protracted conflict....
How did a religious celebration turn into a holiday that is all about home, family, and Christmas...
In the Netherlands, the tradition goes that Sinterklaas lives in Madrid, wears a red clerical robe and...
Virgin birth was not a new story in the ancient world. At the centre of the annual...
Nearly two centuries before Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley became Massachusetts’ first black woman elected to the U.S Congress...
Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Prison officers...
Wilbur Wright, American pioneer in aviation, and Paul Zens, famous French flier, preparing for two man flight...
Fire in the sky has always exerted a powerful hold on our imagination, even as early scientists...