Pop culture loves to depict the Romans as an extremely serious, organized, and warlike culture.…
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There’s a common impression that people in the past were less intelligent than they are…
Archaeology has uncovered many secrets from the ancient world. But the Earth has a bad…
The Industrial Age saw the formation of many new technologies that would change the face…
You’re probably familiar with the old expression – “sex sells.” Well, that applies here, as…
John Lyly’s proverb “All’s fair in love and war” hasn’t resonated so much since he…
Scientifically speaking, coincidences aren’t that peculiar, as we live in a world full of so…
All families, so it is said, have closeted skeletons, crazy uncles, less than savory in-laws,…
There’s a popular adage that 50% of marriages end in divorce. That statistic may have…
When Apollo 13 lifted off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on April 11,…
Pop culture has done a good job of tempering the real life horror of the…
Humanity fought its earliest wars using fists, clubs, and rocks. At some unknown point in…
In 1839 Queen Victoria took the throne and ushered in the Victorian era that bears…
Archaeology has uncovered many secrets from the ancient world. But the Earth has a bad…
The 1973 children’s educational program Schoolhouse Rock! featured cartoons and catchy songs explaining the fundamentals of…
Since rockets were first invented, several thousand of them have been launched into space with…
Reading today’s headlines is undertaken at one’s own peril. The increasingly dire news is filled…
Humans have believed all kinds of strange things throughout our short time on this planet.…
The word strange is barely adequate for some of the ancient leaders described here, if…
From swashbuckling buccaneers, shrewd British Royal Navy officers, bitter salt pork, to climactic battles and…
The fate of nations and empires have depended upon control of the high seas throughout…
War is – more often than that – a numbers game. Unless something unlikely happens,…
Magic is a performance art that goes back thousands of years. The cups and balls,…
Warfare has always provided the impetus for advancing more efficient methods of killing one’s fellow man. History…