Archives for 2015

The Battle of Blenheim

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: France Aims for Dominance in Europe.IntroductionFrance under Louis XIV

We may remark, too, that this more equitable tone of opinion grew up spontaneously, without any legal restriction on the rate of interest--no such

by Jack Le MoineFrom the latest happenings in things historical. This article Whitewashing the Democratic Party's History was published 15 days ago

by Jack Le MoineWhy is one being vilified and the other not? I'd like to know.Both Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton have sex scandals and both have

From our Humor Department:The 1,600-year-old work entitled "Philogelos: The Laugh Addict," one of the world's oldest joke books, features a joke

Never again do we hear of the law of debtor and creditor as disturbing Athenian tranquillity.Continuing Solon's Early Greek Legislation,our

. . . the Scythians being delighted with the vapor-bath howl like wolves. This is to them instead of washing, for in fact they do not wash their

We are told that after a short interval it became eminently acceptable in the general public mind, and procured for Solon a great increase of

It had happened in several Grecian states that the governing oligarchies, either by quarrels among their own members or by the general bad condition