Using the “Gish Gallop” – spouting off a series of misinterpretations and falsehoods to bury his opponent...
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Throughout the centuries, a number of coal miners have documented their lives with paintings. Some of their...
The ‘horse-rider theory’ (kibaminzokusetsu) was proposed by the historian Egami Namio in 1948. Introduction The ‘horse-rider theory’...
Did you know that tens of millions of Americans consider themselves to be regular cannabis consumers? With...
The image of an intoxicated ancient world goes against the idea that moderation was the key to...
In July 1549, Francis Xavier arrived in Japan, hoping to find success converting the Japanese to Christianity....
The Western fascination with Japanese art directly followed earlier European fashions for Chinese and Middle Eastern decorative...
Neolithic people did not write. However, because they lived in settled communities, they left many traces. By...
A Yorkshire farmer argued in 1810 that homosexuality is innate and should not be punished. The diary...
Athenian calendars used lunar cycles and/or solar events to affix dates. Introduction The term “Athenian Calendar” (also...
There were a number of considerations that made the Separatists look to America in 1617. There were...
By the time of Din’s work in 1650, the Ramayana had grown to twenty-four thousand verses that...
The 1950s were a popular time for boxing as a number of extraordinary fighters came on the...
When he died in 1921 the singer Enrico Caruso left behind him approximately 290 commercially released recordings,...
She presided over Georgia’s greatest territorial expansion, taking advantage of the decline of other major powers in...
The Rajarajesvara temple was built by one of the most successful rulers of the medieval period, Rajaraja...
Seals numbering in the thousands have been discovered in excavations of Indus cities as well as in...
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From 16th-century playwrights to ‘The Good Place,’ wordplay has found clever ways to get around uttering profane...
The aesthetic qualities of a geometric design are what most concern the twentieth-century work on Hagia Sophia....
The Bald Knobbers, who mostly sided with the Union in the Civil War, were opposed by the...
After serving one year on the staff of a Syrian legion, he began the long, imperial road...
30,000 slaves were captured and returned to their masters, with another 6,000 being impaled upon wooden stakes...
For 45 years, David Hanks has photographed feed mills in every season and mood. By David HanksPhotographer...
The events that unfolded in Russia from the autumn of 1916 through the autumn of 1917 bent...
The hysteria quickly spread and local authorities used it as an excuse to attack both Jewish and...
Exploring the medieval roots of the now-obsolete meaning of the word ‘Twitter’. Does Twitter have its origins...
Before Facebook, we mailed idealized images of each other to those we love. My great-grandmother, who was...
It can be as meaningful to the voters today as the brass buttons were to supporters watching...
Many radical Republicans pressured Jefferson and the Republican-dominated Congress to make war on the Federalist judiciary. In...