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Diffusion Part VIII The Mystery of Disease Picture of Disease ravaged Natives from the Florentine Codex In the past I have ex...

Fantasy and Scholarship A Case Study 19th Century Tin Cans In two previous posts I talked about the infamous Franklin Expedition1...

Causes of the American Civil War A Brief Note Image of Battle From the American Civil War Debates about the causes of the Ame...

A Battle Miss-Remembered Poltava 1709 Battle of Poltava In a previous post I mentioned and reviewed a rather unpleasant exa...

False Testimony?   Josephus Debates about the existence of Jesus go back many centuries and one of the most commonly used pieces...

Waterloo Some Notes Battle of Waterloo The battle of Waterloo is one of the most analysed, or more accurately over analysed cam...

Responses to a Book Review Map of China In a previous posting I put up a slightly modified brief review of a book by the ideolo...

Witch Doctors  Greek Doctor and Patient i.e. Victim One of the most closely forgotten secrets in the history of civilization is t...

Literate Babylonians Cuneiform Tablet One of the conceits of much scholarly literature concerning the ancient peoples of Iraq was ...

Hannibal’s Mistake? Hannibal In Livy’s series of books about the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.E.) there is a scene in which after...

Contours Of Tyranny Henry VIII Henry VIII has been one of the most studied of English monarchs; a man who was indeed larger tha...

"Victory"? Battle Of Oriskany When I was 10, (1969) years old my parents purchased a World Book Encyclopedia. In the vol...

Homer and The Song of Roland Bust of Homer The following is a brief look at some of the anachronisms and errors in the Epic The S...

Child Killers? The Trophet of Carthage One of the most notorious of “facts” concerning the ancient Carthaginians is that they in...

Love Story? Jonathan and David Anachronistic readings of ancient texts is one of the most annoying facets of reading such docume...

History as Myth Early Rome The Wolf Suckling Romulus and Remus One of the great works of literature is Livy’s History of Rome ...

Long Distance Voyageurs Polynesian Double Canoe Probably the most extraordinary voyages ever accomplished by man on Earth were not...

Brick Wall   Brick Wall - Duh! The following is a revised version of a comment I posted at a website concerning the 2006 movie ...

Danse Macabre The Russian – German War 1941 – 1945, Part 3 Hitler’s “Fatal Error” Operation Barbarossa June 22 - December 1, 194...

The Consummate Hypocrite Thomas Jefferson A Very Brief Note Thomas Jefferson One of the best books I have ever read about Th...