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25 FEB 2025 · 2 MIN

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Two)

The main problem in understanding the Bronze Age Collapse is that we don’t really know what happened. This may look like an oversimplification but it is not. It is, instead, the simple…
Very demure, very mindful: Napoleon’s coronation as French Emperor came only 15 years after the French overthrew their last autocratic ruler. Source: Workshop of François Gérard / Public Domain.
6 JAN 2025 · 6 MIN

Right Man, Right Place, Right Time: The Rise of Napoleon

In 1799 France changed forever. After a decade of rumbling discontent regarding the concentration of wealth towards the powerful and the exploitation of the masses who were facing widespread starvation, the French…
The wounds of many of the fallen soldiers were seen to be glowing after the battle, and those with glowing wounds seemed more likely to survive (Thure de Thulstrup / Public Domain)
6 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

The Battle of Shiloh, when the Injured Soldiers Glowed

It is early 1862, and Ulysses S Grant has just won two major battles. Fighting tooth and nail in Tennessee as he forced his way south in an effort to splinter the…
Raganrok is the fatalistic tale at the heart of Norse mythology. What happens to the gods of the Norse pantheon and the world in which they live?
5 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Ragnarok: What Can We Learn from the Doom of the Gods?

In the 13th century in Iceland a poet and a scholar named Snorri Sturluson wrote two great masterpieces, texts which cast a shadow to this day. In his Poetic Edda and his…