The World As It Once Was: The Shifting Baseline In Iconic Megafauna
Centuries of trophy and commercial hunting, isolation in captivity and poaching, have caused a baseline shift in the perception of iconic Read More
The Classical Influences Behind The Works Of Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli, a 16th-century man, is today still feared and yet revered. Machiavelli has come to represent the archetype of a scheming and conniving mastermind and even modern psychology refers to Machiavellianism as one of the Dark Triad ...
18th Century Post-Mortem Punishment: Gibbets ‘Hanging In Chains’ In England
The curious English have a predilection for heaping abuse upon the corpses of the unfortunate dead, including a cruel ...
The Last Will and Testament of Alexander the Great: Its Appearance, Disappearance And Legacy
“…the uncomfortable fact remains that the Alexander Romance provides us, on occasion, with apparently genuine materials found nowhere else, while our better-authenticated sources, per contra, are all too often riddled with bia...
From Frescos to Manga: The Ancient History of Comic Books
Debuted in 1825, The Glasgow Looking Glass - later renamed The Northern Looking Glass- was a satirical publication which lampooned the fashions and politics of the time. The Glasgow Looking Glass included most of the el...
The Bible’s Bedeviling Bad Girls: Delilah, Jezebel And Salome
It should come as no surprise to most that the biblical writers were unfair to the gentler sex. After all, ever since Eve bit into the forbidden apple, the Good Book has been long obsessed with the notion of bad girls. Over the millennia, the sto...
Seeking The Ten Lost Tribes Of Israel, Finding DNA
The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel have been considered lost for over 3,000 years, but recent evidence demonstrates that they were not lost, they had merely been scattered around the world and had assimilated into other cultures. When a valued item is...
1494 The Battle Of Acentejo: A Gaunches Victory At Tenerife Over The Castilians
A battle at the end of May 1494, on the north slope of the island of Tenerife, between the Castilian troops of the belligerent Catholic Monarchs of Fernando II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile and a thousand Read More
Women Of Independent Means, Revered Ancient Courtesans
One day, the 19th-century courtesan, Esther Guimond, was traveling through Naples when she was stopped for a routine examination of her passport. When asked her profession, she quietly and discreetly told the official that she was a woman of inde...
The Chumash: The Seashell First People Of North America
The question of how people first came to North America is as complicated as when they arrived. With new evidence comes new theories and the dates are being revised constantly. While the colonization of the Americas remains a hig...
