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26 09, 2019

Impeachment and the Epic of Gilgamesh

By |2019-09-26T13:46:09-07:00September 26th, 2019|History|Comments Off on Impeachment and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Impeachment and the Late Republic I've been reading an awful lot of articles drawing parallels between the end of the Roman Republic and what's going on now with the House of Representatives [...]

22 09, 2019

Neptune discovered – on this day

By |2019-09-22T21:17:41-07:00September 22nd, 2019|History|Comments Off on Neptune discovered – on this day

Astronomers have known about six of the planets for at least five thousand years, since the time of the Sumerians. Even the names of the planets we use today are just translations [...]

20 09, 2019

Climate strike today

By |2019-09-20T13:58:43-07:00September 20th, 2019|History|Comments Off on Climate strike today

Are you on climate strike today? Quatr.us Study Guides, like most people these days, realizes the tremendous danger facing us today from climate change, and that this climate change is caused by [...]

19 09, 2019

Racism and Anglo-Saxonists

By |2019-09-19T08:20:55-07:00September 19th, 2019|History|Comments Off on Racism and Anglo-Saxonists

This has been a big thing on my Twitter for a few weeks now, but now two big things have happened: the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists has formally voted to change its [...]

19 09, 2019

Scarcity and the Iliad

By |2019-09-19T07:49:47-07:00September 19th, 2019|History|Comments Off on Scarcity and the Iliad

"The Iliad, at one level, is all about scarcity: scarcity of goods, of women, of honor, of life-time, and, ultimately, the scarcity of fame." Are you teaching the Iliad or reading it? Check [...]

23 04, 2019

Medieval Bulgaria – European history

By |2019-04-23T06:53:10-07:00April 23rd, 2019|History|Comments Off on Medieval Bulgaria – European history

Where's Bulgaria? Bulgarian history - a map showing where Bulgaria is Bulgaria is at the northern edge of the Aegean Sea, between modern Greece and Turkey. This land was part [...]

21 08, 2018

Primates – Evolution of Monkeys and Humans

By |2018-09-02T13:28:56-07:00August 21st, 2018|History|Comments Off on Primates – Evolution of Monkeys and Humans

Primate evolution: The earliest primates probably looked something like this little marmoset monkey. When did the first primates evolve? The first primates evolved out of earlier mammals around 56 million [...]

28 04, 2018

History of Chile – South America

By |2018-04-29T00:34:19-07:00April 28th, 2018|History|Comments Off on History of Chile – South America

Mapuche fight off Spanish invaders In the 1530s AD, the Mapuche people in Chile had recently fought off an Inca invasion and were fiercely determined to stay independent. And the Mapuche were [...]

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