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Why? Blank There is an old joke / urban legend that circulates among students and faculty in North American Universities and it goes as...

Intervention Napoleon III A question that a friend of mine once recently asked was “Why did the USA not intervene during the Franco-Pru...

Year End Earth's Orbit The end of the year is of course a very arbitrary thing after all circles have no beginning and no end. They...

Noel Nativity Scene Perhaps one of the most evocative of modern Christmas Carols is Chris de Burgh’s A Spaceman Came Travelling , from...

Down the Memory Hole An Unknown French Victory of the Hundred Years War du Guesclin The Hundred Years war between England and Fra...