Archives for May 2014

Was China’s Mao History’s Worst Monster?

This article from the Los Angeles Times says he killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. These three were truly evil.

HMS Victory, photographed in 1885.This was the flagship of the fleet that destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of

We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.- Bill Gates, in

So far Akbar had prospered; he had conquered the great highway into the Deccan--Malwa, Khandesh, Berar, and Ahmadnagar. He raised Abul Fazl to the

Time: July 2, 1863Place: Little RoundTop, Gettysburg, PennsylvaniaThis hill is where the southernmost end of the Union line

Akbar was very inquisitive. He sent an expedition to discover the sources of the Ganges. He made a strange experiment to discover what language was

Here’s a question: how old was Ray Kroc in 1954? The story reminds me of the one about Benjamin Franklin. As he walked out of the Constitutional

We see that Popular Mechanics has removed this feature from their website. Too, bad. These were a series of good articles. -- September,

At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade of Zolas to head out into this wild,