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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
History of Paraguay: Guarani people performing a dance in the 1800s The Guarani in the 1500s AD In 1500 AD, the Guarani were living and farming in what is now [...]
The Old Gumbie Cat (1939) I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she [...]
