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Thinking Critically about UFOs: Are They Really Piloted by Extraterrestrials? — 16 Sep 2016

Thinking Critically about UFOs: Are They Really Piloted by Extraterrestrials?

By Ken Jeremiah

Archaeology & Science

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Although it seems that it is taboo to speak openly about them, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are a part of our planetary history. Evidence of their existence is found in some of the earliest human records, including cave paintings in various...
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Thinking Critically about UFOs: Are They Really Piloted by Extraterrestrials? — 16 Sep 2016

Thinking Critically about UFOs: Are They Really Piloted by Extraterrestrials?

By Ken Jeremiah

Archaeology & Science

2

Although it seems that it is taboo to speak openly about them, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are a part of our planetary history. Evidence of their existence is found in some of the earliest human records, including cave paintings in various...
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Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Warnings and Omens – Part II — 14 Sep 2016

Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Warnings and Omens – Part II

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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[Read Part I]Once Cyaxares had finalized the conquest of Urartu, he handed it over to a certain tribe of Scythians who had inhabited the region of Armenia beforehand and thus extended their domain.Kingdom of Urartu 715–713 BC (Sémhur/CC BY-SA...
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Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Warnings and Omens – Part II — 14 Sep 2016

Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Warnings and Omens – Part II

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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[Read Part I]Once Cyaxares had finalized the conquest of Urartu, he handed it over to a certain tribe of Scythians who had inhabited the region of Armenia beforehand and thus extended their domain.Kingdom of Urartu 715–713 BC (Sémhur/CC BY-SA...
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Apadana Hall, fifth-century BC carving of Persian archers and Median soldiers in traditional costume (Medians are wearing rounded hats and boots) — 12 Sep 2016

Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Their Hidden Origins and History – Part I

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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The term Medes, as a single ethnic group that encompasses all Media, is generic. It seems that the region of Media encompassed many smaller and independent principalities ruled by chieftains instead of kings, and was a makeup of various peoples of...
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Apadana Hall, fifth-century BC carving of Persian archers and Median soldiers in traditional costume (Medians are wearing rounded hats and boots) — 12 Sep 2016

Kings of the Umman Manda (Media): Their Hidden Origins and History – Part I

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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The term Medes, as a single ethnic group that encompasses all Media, is generic. It seems that the region of Media encompassed many smaller and independent principalities ruled by chieftains instead of kings, and was a makeup of various peoples of...
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A Drink Fit for Goddesses: Beer and Mankind in Ancient Mythology — 09 Sep 2016

A Drink Fit for Goddesses: Beer and Mankind in Ancient Mythology

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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It is widely known these days that beer is one of the oldest beverages human beings have ever produced. Beer-related items and activities familiar to us today can be traced back to the ancient world. Evidence of early beer brewing has been...
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A Drink Fit for Goddesses: Beer and Mankind in Ancient Mythology — 09 Sep 2016

A Drink Fit for Goddesses: Beer and Mankind in Ancient Mythology

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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It is widely known these days that beer is one of the oldest beverages human beings have ever produced. Beer-related items and activities familiar to us today can be traced back to the ancient world. Evidence of early beer brewing has been...
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The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry — 07 Sep 2016

The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were manipulated by a puppeteer in that cave. The fire behind...
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The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry — 07 Sep 2016

The Ancient Beginnings of the Art of Shadow Puppetry

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were manipulated by a puppeteer in that cave. The fire behind...
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Attila and his Hordes — 05 Sep 2016

The Hunnic War Machine: Horsemen of the Steppe – Part II

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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The fifth century politician and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, wrote an interesting description on the horsemanship of the Huns, stating, “You would think the limbs of man and beast were born together, so firmly does the rider always stick to the...
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Attila and his Hordes — 05 Sep 2016

The Hunnic War Machine: Horsemen of the Steppe – Part II

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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The fifth century politician and bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, wrote an interesting description on the horsemanship of the Huns, stating, “You would think the limbs of man and beast were born together, so firmly does the rider always stick to the...
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Reenactors of Hunnic Warriors of the Steppe — 02 Sep 2016

The Hunnic War Machine: The Push Westward – Part I

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

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The steppe has produced many notable horse archers who brought terror and devastation to the known world during ancient times. But of the many steppe peoples who penetrated the civilized world, none brought more destruction then the Huns.Sometime...
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Reenactors of Hunnic Warriors of the Steppe — 02 Sep 2016

The Hunnic War Machine: The Push Westward – Part I

By Cam Rea

History & Tradition

0

The steppe has produced many notable horse archers who brought terror and devastation to the known world during ancient times. But of the many steppe peoples who penetrated the civilized world, none brought more destruction then the Huns.Sometime...
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Detail of the Wenhaston Doom — 31 Aug 2016

The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the...
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Detail of the Wenhaston Doom — 31 Aug 2016

The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the...
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Left, Sisters Charlotte and Susan Cushman in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 1846 (Public Domain); Right, Male Kabuki actor in Japan (CC BY 2.0) — 30 Aug 2016

Ancient History of Cross-Dressing: From Ancient Religions to the Theaters

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Ephippus, in a surviving fragment of his lost pamphlet depicting the court of Alexander the Great in 324-323 BC, alleges that Alexander liked to cross-dress as the Greek archer-goddess Artemis. Supposedly, Alexander often appeared in public as...
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Left, Sisters Charlotte and Susan Cushman in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in 1846 (Public Domain); Right, Male Kabuki actor in Japan (CC BY 2.0) — 30 Aug 2016

Ancient History of Cross-Dressing: From Ancient Religions to the Theaters

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Ephippus, in a surviving fragment of his lost pamphlet depicting the court of Alexander the Great in 324-323 BC, alleges that Alexander liked to cross-dress as the Greek archer-goddess Artemis. Supposedly, Alexander often appeared in public as...
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A painting depicting a scene from the Chinese classic, Journey to the West. The painting shows the four heros of the story, left to right: Sun Wukong, Xuanzang, Zhu Wuneng, and Sha Wujing. The painting is a decoration on the Long Corridor in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. — 26 Aug 2016

The Monk and the Poet: Meet the Rebels behind the Legendary “Journey to the West”

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

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Hsi-yu chi, or Journey to the West, is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century, during the Ming Dynasty. The novel adds elements from a bewildering array of Asian cultural lore, as well as from the three major religious traditions of China...
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A painting depicting a scene from the Chinese classic, Journey to the West. The painting shows the four heros of the story, left to right: Sun Wukong, Xuanzang, Zhu Wuneng, and Sha Wujing. The painting is a decoration on the Long Corridor in the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. — 26 Aug 2016

The Monk and the Poet: Meet the Rebels behind the Legendary “Journey to the West”

By MartiniF

History & Tradition

0

Hsi-yu chi, or Journey to the West, is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century, during the Ming Dynasty. The novel adds elements from a bewildering array of Asian cultural lore, as well as from the three major religious traditions of China...
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