by Jack Le MoineItaly and its new-found wealth lures the rising power, France. Continuing our series on France's Wars. Did you ever notice
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Leading and Following
Disraeli as Prime Minister in 1878Public domain image from Wikipedia.I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?- Benjamin
Lorenzo the Magnificent Fosters the Renaissance
"I dislike these Ultramontanes and barbarians beginning to interfere in Italy. We are so disunited and so deceitful that I believe that nothing but
Persian Massacre of Samos
Previously in Herodotus147. Then Otanes the Persian commander, seeing that the Persians had suffered greatly, purposely forgot the commands which
Lorenzo’s Diplomacy Amidst Conflicts
No sooner had the presence of the Turks at Otranto, in the extreme southeast of Italy, been rendered a thing of the past by the surrender of the
Lorenzo Becomes “the Magnificent”
The final decade of Lorenzo's life constituted the midsummer bloom of the Tuscan renaissance, the meridian of the intellectual and artistic supremacy
The Middle East That Might Have Been
by Jack Le MoineFrom the latest happenings in things historical. This article The Middle East That Might Have Been was published 22 days ago in The
Another Earliest Movies
by Jack Le MoineThe first big hit in American movie history was Edison’s First Kiss. Not very sexy by our standards but serious stuff in
What If 3 Wise Women Instead of . . .
If instead of The Three Wise Men there were The Three Wise Women, they would have:asked for directions sooner,arrived in time,helped deliver