Blogs tagged "history"

For centuries, the Javakheti Plateau, in the highlands of southern Georgia, has remained one of the least archaeologi...

On the upcoming May 1, exactly 250 years will mark the founding of the Illuminati, the Order of the Illuminated, a se...

In Schaalby, a small locality in northern Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, a team of archaeologists and volunteers has ...

While Charles of Anjou was consolidating his rule in Provence and Forcalquier between 1250 and 1252, events elsewhere...

The French word gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, which means "duty." It was a tax applied to agricultural an...

Some months after Charles of Anjou married Beatrice of Provence in 1246, therefore becoming Count of Provence and For...

Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday’s links come i...

I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle o...

Manuel Moreale published a blog post on the vertical vs horizontal tabs debate. But instead of choosing a side in wha...

An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

Announcing an exciting new book series!

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a co...

While the study of textbooks has proven fruitful in the study of the history of mathematics, there has been little at...

Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption o...

The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

As we accelerate toward superintelligence, our quest for self-mastery takes a spiritual turn. The post The Dostoevski...

The digital era has brought about a flattening of art and culture, creating a world where depth and texture have beco...

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here i...

THUS WE BOMB Iran. The administration does not give consistent reasons for the attack on Iran: some say we war to cha...

LAST MONTH American Affairs published my review of Alexander Karp’s The Technological Republic. While I had plenty cr...

Hey folks! Fireside this week; next week we’ll be back to seperating out the components of Carthaginian armies, looki...

This is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfai...

This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which i...